2023: Group Backs Jonathan’s Presidency ‘ll Calm Nerves, Boost North-South Affinity

BY VICTOR BUORO – A Political pressure group under the auspices of the Nationalists Movement has urged former President Goodluck Jonathan to join the race for the 2023 Presidential election as a bridge-builder between the North and South of the country.

For the group, the former president is a national conciliator whose pedigree and track record would serve as the desired magic wand to calm frayed nerves and soothe ethnic tensions in different parts of the country.

National Coordinator of the Movement, Engineer Abidde Robinson, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja, said Nigerians need a popular and people-oriented leader like the former President with a track record of integrity and statesmanship to pacify all contending groups and bridge the gap between North and South before, during and after the 2023 general elections.

According to him; “We the Nationalists Movement, a non-partisan, very patriotic and nationalistic Nigerians of like minds all over the world poised to promote, build and sustain national ideals, have carefully identified former president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as a great statesman, patriot, and national pacifier whose pedigree and track record proves he has the magic wand needed to soothe ethnic tensions in different parts of the country.”

“We are therefore passionately pleading with H.E. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to yield and not resist the wishes and calls of the majority of patriotic Nigerians from home and in the diaspora to come back to Aso Rock Presidential Villa in 2023”, the Movement posited.