2027: Jonathan not power-hungry – Former aide

Jude Imagwe, former Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, has said that his principal is neither power-hungry nor power-drunk.

Imagwe made this statement during an interview on News Central Television.

He was reacting to the Taminu Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, declaring Jonathan as its presidential candidate ahead of the next year’s general elections.

The ex-presidential aide said there is no indication that Jonathan received, completed or submitted any nomination forms related to a 2027 presidential bid.

“One thing is clear. That is the fact that I do not think former President Jonathan is power-hungry or power-drunk.

“If he was power-hungry, he would not have relinquished power in 2015. I also do not think that President Jonathan is desperate to return back to Aso Rock because clearly he hasn’t forgotten anything there.

“I also know clearly that Jonathan is where he is today through several sacrifices, through commitment, through discipline, through resilience, and above all, through humility.

“But the unfortunate situation is that certain persons that have masqueraded themselves with dangerous ambition to perpetually want to remain on the airspace of public conversation as regards 2027, have chosen to begin to drag an innocent gentleman’s name who, for reasons too, has still not said anything about it.

“What is clear is that there is nobody that gets a nomination form that does not have his or her signature on it, and such instances are ceremonial.

“There is no pictorial evidences that suggest that any of these documents were done by the former president,” he said.