Obasanjo Knows Of Jonathan’s One-Term Pact and President Now Begging Him To Deny?

The 5 northern states governors opposed to the plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to run for another term in 2015 have said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was very much aware that Jonathan indeed agreed to serve for only one term, after spending two years of Yar-Adua's Administration.

“We are impressed with the report that Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has already taken a unique and unprecedented step of declaring that he would only want to be a one-term president. If so, whether he knows it or not, that is a sacrifice and it is statesmanly.

"Rather than vilify him and pull him down, we as a party should applaud and commend him and Nigerians should reward and venerate him. He has taken the first good step; let us encourage him to take more good steps to achieve what we need to achieve for this country by voting for
him in landslide victory as the first elected president of Nigeria on basis of our common Nigerian identity and for the purpose of actualising the Nigerian dream. God bless you all."

According to the governors, Obasanjo had stated this at the grand finale of the PDP presidential campaign in March 2011, while acknowledging the one-term pact.

The governors who are elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have therefore urged Obasanjo to speak out on the matter, insisting that Jonathan in 2011 had a pact with the north not to seek re-election after his first term in office.

The governors are Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) and Muazu Babangida Aliyu (Niger).

A source close to one of the governors said the lingering crisis in the PDP has continued unabated because Obasanjo has kept silent over the controversial one-term pact Jonathan allegedly entered into prior to his emergence as the PDP presidential candidate in 2011.

It was gathered that President Jonathan is seriously pleading with Obasanjo to deny the pact but he (Obasanjo) is said to be discussing with other Northern Generals before speaking up.