Former President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged by International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, and Leaders of the Southeast Based Coalition of Democracy and Human Rights Organisations, to disregard the temptation to contest for presidential election in 2023.
According to the groups, Jonathan’s rumoured ambition to contest for president in 2023 is “morally uncalled for.”
They called on the former president to join other former leaders of the country to ensure a peaceful and equitable transition of Nigeria’s top federal seats in 2023.
The groups stated this in a statement made on Friday issued by its leaders, including Emeka Umeagbalasi, Comrade Aloysius Attah, and Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme.
The statement reads in part, “The return bid of former President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2023 Presidency is morally uncalled for. The best expected of him is not to rejoin the race but to fatherly join former leaders of the country to ensure the equitable and peaceful transition of the country’s top federal seats of power in 2023; especially by joining in the ongoing persuasive campaigns to produce the next president of the country from the Southeast and ensuring that the emerging Southeast president does not corner all or most of the key federal public offices to his zone or region.
“Having taken the slot of his region or geopolitical zone (South-South: 2010-2015), former President Goodluck Jonathan is ineligible and unfit to seek to be the President of Nigeria again especially in 2023. His Geopolitical Zone or Region-South-South must morally and constitutionally wait for their turn when others in line must have taken theirs.”