GEJ’s record better than Buhari, Tinubu – Bode George

• Zamfara PDP riles Presidency over attack on ex-President
• Allow Jonathan to enjoy retirement from public office, APC tells PDP

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan has better records as President than the late Muhammadu Buhari and President Bola Tinubu.
 
This was as the Zamfara State chapter of PDP condemned the Presidency for attacking Jonathan’s while attempting to dress up the monumental failures of the Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
 
Meanwhile, the APC in Lagos State has advised the PDP to allow Jonathan to enjoy his retirement from public office in peace, rather than luring him into the 2027 race. George said Jonathan’s period as Nigerian president couldn’t be compared to that of Buhari and Tinubu’s era.
 
The PDP chieftain spoke in an interview with Arise Television while commenting on Jonathan running for President in 2027. He said: “But what is striking, and it’s the fact that they were comparing Jonathan’s period with Buhari and Bola’s period. How? Let the will of the people be respected.
 
“If you look at Jonathan’s period, ask any Nigerian what they have been feeling since Buhari’s period to Tinubu’s period. Check out the economic indices, is it the interest rate? The inflation rate? What is the value of Naira compared to the dollar?”
 
Also, the former spokesman of Tinubu in the South-East, Denge Josef Onoh, affirmed that Jonathan is constitutionally qualified to contest for the Nigerian presidency in the 2027 election.
 
Onoh’s remark followed Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga’s statement, on Monday, where he warned that Jonathan’s eligibility for the 2027 contest may be a resolution of the court.

CHAIRMAN of the PDP in Zamfara, Jamilu Magayaki, noted the attack on Jonathan as nothing but proof that the APC and the Presidency were jittery, terrified and haunted by the thought of a resurgent PDP and the towering democratic credentials of Jonathan.
 
If Jonathan’s record was truly “disastrous” as they claim, why then does the mere suggestion of his return to the ballot in 2027 send shivers down the spine of the APC? he asked.

“The truth remains that Nigerians remember Jonathan’s era, not for the propaganda of the APC, but for the peace, respect for democracy, and relative economic stability it brought—things that have since been destroyed under the APC’s misrule.”

APC spokesman, Seye Oladejo, advised the PDP in Lagos, following a declaration by Jerry Gana that Jonathan would contest the presidency in 2027.
 
According to Oladejo, rather than luring Jonathan into “a final dance whose result is all too predictable”, the cheerleaders should have allowed the former Nigerian leader to relax.
 
Speaking on Gana’s public remark at the PDP Niger State Congress in Minna, Oladejo said that elections remained contests of ideas, competence and delivery – not nostalgia or recycled rhetoric.(Guardian)