..asks Atiku, Kwankwaso, Obi, others to rally behind Jonathan as a consensus candidate
A pro-Jonathan pressure group in Northwest, Bring Back Our Goodluck, has called on former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2027 presidential election, declaring that Nigerians were “misled in 2015” into voting out his administration.
Speaking at a press conference at the Aminu Kano Centre for Democracy, Research and Training, Mambayya House, in Kano on Sunday, the group’s National Coordinator, Dr. Grema Kyari, said Jonathan remained the best man to address the challenges facing Nigeria.
Kyari argued that Jonathan’s return was not just desirable but necessary, citing global examples of political comebacks, including Donald Trump in the United States and John Mahama in Ghana.
“We were misled in 2015 by the APC under the late Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo, and Chief Bisi Akande. They sold Nigerians deceitful promises, which they never fulfilled. Instead of progress, the country has been plunged into hunger, poverty, and frustration,” Kyari told journalists.
The group insisted that Jonathan presided over Nigeria’s last era of economic stability, pointing to relatively stable food prices, affordable fuel, agricultural reforms, and youth empowerment initiatives such as YouWin! and SURE-P.
Kyari contrasted this with what he described as today’s biting hardship, citing the sharp rise in food prices.
Beyond urging Jonathan to run, the group appealed to other opposition leaders—including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, Nasir El-Rufai, and others—to “shelve personal ambition” and rally behind Jonathan as a consensus candidate.
Kyari said 2027 would not be “just another election year” but a “rescue mission” to stop what he described as the APC government’s erosion of democracy.
The campaign, which started in the Northeast, has now moved to the North-West, which Kyari described as “the heartbeat of commerce and political influence in Northern Nigeria.”
