Despite the fact that President Jonathan has not formerly come out to declare his interest in the forth coming Presidential elections, all pointers show that there is a lot of “underground moves” that show his serious interest. A member of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande has a warned Nigerians that President Goodluck Jonathan’s purported re-election bid ahead of 2015 general elections may destroy the country.
He is reported as saying that “President Jonathan treats national issues with levity. All he is concerned about is his second term. He has reduced Nigeria to kindergarten governance. This is dangerous and may destroy the nation”, Interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Adebisi Akande, said yesterday. He added: “Jonathan is the most powerful President in the world. He has all the powers arrogated to him, yet he is asking for more”.
Akande, who himself is a former governor of Osun State, buttressed his claim that the President is unfit for re-election with the allegation that he wrote two letters to the President as the National Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, on national issues, but Jonathan failed to reply.
“I did not see President Jonathan as a serious-minded person. Nigeria’s problem today is Jonathan. I wrote him twice when I was in office as National Chairman of the ACN on issues bordering on the state of the nation and, till date, he did not acknowledge the letters not to talk of replying”,
Akande likened President Jonathan’s style of governance to that of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying the President keeps harassing anybody that stands on his way with anti-graft or security agencies.
He noted that the political crisis in Rivers State was as a result of the President’s ambition to remain in office beyond 2015.
On the quality of the person to flag the APC presidential ticket in the 2015 election, he said, “We want a thinking leadership in this country and not a kindergarten leader like Jonathan.”