Former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani has asked former president Goodluck Jonathan not contest the forthcoming 2027 presidential election.
He stated this while speaking as a guest on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television.
Sani said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the party Jonathan used to win the election in 2011, is no longer united.
Sani advised the ex-president to jettison the idea of running for presidency come 2027.
The former federal lawmaker pointed out that Jonathan’s name always comes out whenever there is an election, stressing that it is his volition to contest.
“But I advise him not to do that. The reason is very simple: the PDP he used to know is not the PDP now.
“The PDP in the South-West is endorsing the president. Some members of the party are in the coalition. So, it is the party he used to know so he shouldn’t waste his time,” he said.
Recall that Jonathan, who was Vice President to former late President Umaru Yar’adua for three years before his death, ascended to the presidency on May 6, 2010, till May 29, 2011, elected on the PDP platform and was in power till May 29, 2015.
The ex-Nigerian leader also re-contested in 2015 but lost to late Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC.