President Goodluck Jonathan
Ciroma had on Wedneday while speaking during an interview with the Hausa service of Voice of America (VOA) said that the North would use every legal and democratic means to scuttle the unjust ambition of the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan to put aside the zoning formula at the expense of the North.
Jonathan, who reacted in a statement through the Director, Media and Publicity for the Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organization, Sully Abu, advised Mallam Ciroma not to tread the path that could create division And promote disunity among Nigerians as an elder statesman, a party grandee and a man to whom the country has given a lot.
The statement signed by Abu said Ciroma’s ‘insistence flies in the face of overwhelming evidence of the yearning of all Nigerians’ who have seen ‘change in the way the country is governed especially in their material condition’.
“No one should delude himself that he is speaking for the North or any other part of the country for that matter unless they are willing to go along with the people’s yearning for change, fundamental change,” it added.
The statement titled ‘Why Mallam Adamu Ciroma should not play God’ further read, “With regards to the PDP’s zoning formular; the party, noting the circumstances of President Jonathan’s ascension to the Presidency and his legitimate ambition, has decided that he is entitled to contest just as other aspirants. Any loyal party man should have the discipline to abide by the decision of the party.
“The Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organization recognizes the last ditch ambition of some aspirants for whom 2011 represents a last chance to fulfill their dream. But that desperation should not be equated with the interest of our people.
“It is Almighty God speaking through the people who will determine the future of Nigeria and President Jonathan and not the arrogant few who seek to play God.”
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