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Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said it is confident that former President Goodluck Jonathan will not dump the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), no matter the amount of pressures piled on him to do so.

Following his disagreement with Seriake Dickson, the outgoing governor of Bayelsa state and the series of meetings he has had with David Lyon, the governor-elect and other APC leaders in the state, there were insinuations that the former president who voluntarily relinquished power to the APC following his defeat in the 2015 general elections may be on his way out of the PDP.

It was also rumoured that key stakeholders of the APC who are trying to make appreciable inroad into the South- South are trying to capitalise on the support given to Lyon by Jonathan and his family during the just concluded November 16 governorship election.

However, speaking with Daily Independent, a member of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) who spoke on condition of anonymity said while they are aware of the scheming by the APC to lure the former President into its fold, it is confident that Jonathan will never leave the PDP.

He said the former president took the decision to support Lyon based on “personal reasons owing to the disagreement he had with Governor Dickson and not because of his interest in joining the APC”.

“ Yes, we have heard about it too. But we are not sleeping over it at all. We know former President Jonathan as a very loyal party man and one of the pillars of our great party. We are confident he will not join the APC no matter how they try to convince him”.
“ I don’t want to go into details but from what we witnessed in the Bayelsa election, the people are not happy with the candidate anointed by Governor Dickson who was the candidate of the PDP. If that is the decision of Bayelsans, then I think the former president who is a tested democrat will align with that decision, irrespective of where the candidate the people wants comes from”.

Also speaking with our correspondent on whether the PDP has taken any action against Jonathan over his role in the party’s loss during the Bayelsa governorship election, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s National Publicity Secretary said he is not aware any letter was written by the party to the former President.

Ologbondiyan, who said there is no case concerning Jonathan at the national level said as a member of the Bayelsa state chapter of the party, if the former president had committed any wrongdoing, it is the state chapter of the party that will bring the report to the national level for action.
That, according to him has not been done as at Monday.
“ I will have to ask the National Secretary if that was done because I am not the one that will write the letter. We are concerned about the loss of our party”.
“Right now, there is no issue before us concerning the former President. The PDP is procedural. We work with procedures. If there were issues in a particular state, the state chapter will have to bring the issue before the national body before any action can be taken. That is the procedure” he said.

https://www.independent.ng/we-are-confident-jonathan-wont-defect-to-apc-pdp/

saywha saywha, anything can happen.

Jonathan is already with the APC but that is politics for you-"no permanent friends or enemy."
However, dear Jonathan always remember...

Apc next presidential candidate...and em go win.

Keep deceiving yourselves.

Dickson lost and GEJ was not the reason but Bayelsans political class.

Joe boy was faced with two bad options he had to take the one that will keep his respect, same situation oshomole is going to find himself come the next edo state election. The governor controls the state, now in the election proper you have to choose whether to defend your party or pick between two perceive enemy. I bet you will go for the lesser one

I have heard many people say Jonathan is the next APC presidential candidate and that he will win easily.

How e take open our border?

Lol.

And what's the difference if not even worse for the party of pigs?

The reason ipob pigs have been cautious of attacking gej for his recent action is very obvious. He is a Niger Deltan, and the reason behind the foolish agitation by the ipob pigs led by a pornster hiding in the UK is just the Niger delta oil, and attacking gej will puncture the moribund agitation.

So Buhari will hand over to a Southerner, from Ijaw??

Eteka1:
I have heard many people say Jonathan is the next APC presidential candidate and that he will win easily.

Overconfidence na em kill Samson

I have promised to Stan with Jonathan for live.

But that will seize the day he defects to APC.

It is the lowest he can go.

It will be stupid.

It will show directionlessness.

It will prove all allegation that he is not a man.

That he is a drunkard.

And in fact, an ineffectual buffoon.

But until then, I Stan!

donbachi:
Apc next presidential candidate...and em go win.

mbanu....no way....we no want am....

after messin up in fee dee fee,he wan go mess up in apc....??
we reject that ineffectual buffonn....

PDP does not seem to understand that the earlier it expels Goodluck Jonathan the better for the party. Jonathan, Wike, Tambuwal, Dino Melaye and a host of other s will quit PDP to form thier own party. Most members of PDP do not understand the undue publicity given to Jonathan. He has no electoral value. He can as well join APC like the proverbial dog that feeds on its vomit.

Feed on its vomit. Has he ever been in APC or any other opposition party before?

OBUKSBAYELSA:
PDP does not seem to understand that the earlier it expels Goodluck Jonathan the better for the party. Jonathan, Wike, Tambuwal, Dino Melaye and a host of other s will quit PDP to form thier own party. Most members of PDP do not understand the undue publicity given to Jonathan. He has no electoral value. He can as well join APC like the proverbial dog that feeds on its vomit.

What if he does? Permanent interests