2023: Jonathan keeps supporters guessing, says I can’t tell if I will run

By Editor 

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday, put his political supporters in suspense, when he told them that he can’t tell if he will be contesting the 2023 presidential election.

Dr. Jonathan stated this while replying supporters who staged a protest at his Abuja office demanding that he should join the 2023 presidential race

The former leader, however, told the supporters to “just watch out”.

Before coming out to address them, the supporters had chanted and screamed the President’s name for minutes.

The former President acknowledged that the youths want him to contest, but gave reasons why he had not made any comment on demands for him to contest the 2023 presidential election.

According to him, “I cannot declare because some processes are still ongoing.

“Yes, you are calling on me to come and declare for the next election. I cannot tell you I’m declaring. The political process is ongoing; just watch out. The key role you must play is that Nigeria must get somebody that will carry young people along.”

A spokesman for the group, Mayor Samuel, who is also the convener of the Youth Compatriots of Nigeria, had said, “We were deceived and brainwashed by those who claimed they could do it in 2015.

“Now, we know better, under Jonathan, the minimum wage could buy one or two bags of rice. What do we have today? We are begging President Jonathan to forgive us; we have realised our mistakes; we want him back to complete what he started.”

The supporters, comprising a group of women and youths, had demanded the return of the former President in 2023.

The supporters displayed placards which some of them read, “Goodluck declare now”; “We are sorry, Goodluck, don’t abandon us, come back”; “Goodluck please come”; and “Goodluck we love you” among others.