July 12 09:35 2015
It is now official: the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it lost its 16-year hold on power because former President Goodluck Jonathan betrayed the north. Cairo Ojougboh, vice-chairman (south-south) of the PDP, told journalists in Abuja on Friday that if Jonathan had kept to his promise to do only one term in 2011, the party would not have lost the election. In a report published by THISDAY on Sunday, Ojougboh said even the Christian north turned against Jonathan in the 2015 polls because of the “injustice” of reneging on his promise. Although he was widely reported to have promised to do only one term in 2011, Jonathan denied entering such a pact and challenged his accusers to provide evidence. But Ojougboh maintained that Jonathan did make the promise after succeeding President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who had barely spent three years in office when he died. The PDP leader said: “Jonathan himself said he will do only four years. Emirs, leaders and stakeholders in the country accepted that Jonathan will do only four years so that power can shift to the north. When the time came, a lot of macabre dance started. People started putting pressure here and there, and people started encouraging Jonathan to contest. “Unfortunately, Jonathan didn’t have the nerve to say, no, I will keep my agreement. So, Jonathan contesting meant that zoning formula had been breached. The north didn’t take kindly to it; they said, no, this is not what we agreed. Even the Christian north that used to be very friendly, especially the north-central, said, we had an agreement. “Some governors, about five of them, left the party because of that because they saw what was happening. The north now agreed that they must take power back, that it was their turn.” He said the 2015 election was a battle between the north and the south. “The south had done more than enough for the time being, for the agreement of 1998/1999. So the north said, look we are going to vote for our son, whether he is good or bad,” he said. Jonathan lost to President Muhammadu Buhari by 2.57 million votes, having won in 2011 by a difference of 10 million votes. https://www.thecable.ng/pdp-lost-gej-betrayed-north

Hmm...only God can judge him

Yes he betrayed us. Nemesis caught up with him.

Fear North

This cheap patronage will not make us see any good in pdp again. PDP is dead and buried here in the north, accept it and stop givin useless excuses.

Can't these PDP people let this presidency of a thing rest for once?

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER!!!

there is no atom of truth in this write-up.

Okay!

ukaegbuikedia:
there is no atom of truth in this write-up.

yes! because the speech is coming from a south south man ba?

Hmmm aii

PDP will present a candidate from North in 2019

ukaegbuikedia:
there is no atom of truth in this write-up.

cc: lalasticlala

mikeansy:
PDP will present a candidate from North in 2019

Even if PMB ll be presented pdp ll not win election in d north again

you northerns are sick piece of shit....empty barrels you contribute nothing to d economy but want to take a lot like yu deserve everything. ......I like apc and the effort asiwaju put in apc but to be honest before God an man Jonathan too try. for una wif different levels of appointment contract and stuff but yu guys started saying stuffs like Jonathan betrated yu guys. how abegg......

its yur pple dat is betraying you I was living in yola for two years of ma life. and didnt see 1 project nyako did not even. road patch or road construction. .....same wif all d meagre development going on dere wif d huge monies you are given.

keep doing followeship shouting sai lamido while yur leaders rip yu apart

GEJ lost because he was never d president... Five women presided over the country for five years

fine.