2015: Why Jonathan Should Be Stopped From Contesting

Mr. Inuwa Abdulkadir, a former Minister of Youth Affairs, has said President Goodluck Jonathan should be stopped from contesting the 2015 presidential election. 

Abdulkadir called on the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN) to act fast.

In a letter written by Abdulkadir, addressed to the AGF  and made available to Leadership, the former minister said Jonathan should be stopped on the ground that such an action is unconstitutional and tantamount to a third term.

Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir

The letter reads in part: “Firstly, without at all intending to be patronizing, your timely intervention would afford the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opportunity to field a qualified person as its candidate for the office of the President.
“Secondly, to avoid the enormous waste of fast dwindling national resources in conducting a presidential election with an unqualified person and the acrimony and tensions that results of such elections have been known to breed in Nigeria.


“Thirdly, your intervention would save the courts from the unwarranted trouble of having to be repeating itself on the same issues as were decided in the case of Marwa supra.”
Abdulkadir, who was appointed a minister by Jonathan and has now defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), urged Adoke to take a judicial notice of the fact that Jonathan’s declaration for 2015 presidency was an indication that he would spend more than eight years.President Jonathan had on Tuesday, November 11, officially declared his intention to run for the 2015 presidential elections on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Eagle Square in Abuja.

Jonathan’s declaration has been trailed with mixed reactions, while some applauded him, some are of the opinion that he should have at least mourned the students who lost their lives the day before in a suicide bomb attack in Yobe state.

Osun Civil Societies Coalition, an umbrella body of human right groups in Osun State described President Jonathan’s declaration as the highest point of insensitivity.