Lead Visioner of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), has urged Former President Goodluck Jonathan not to heed calls to contest for presidency in 2027.
He said Jonathan would be taking a political risk by contesting, predicting he would be reduced to a minnow by President Bola Tinubu at the polls.
Adediran urged Jonathan to stay in retirement, saying those telling him to run against Tinubu were deceiving him.
He said Tinubu is ” a master in the game of politics,”who, according to him, cannot be defeated by Jonathan or any other figure in 2027.
“I disagree with people calling on Jonathan to re-contest, people saying Jonathan is the only person who can challenge Tinubu,citing his popularity and experience.
“It was this same man (Tinubu) who defeated him (Jonathan) from the outside. So, they are not the same.
“It is different from somebody who, against all odds, got there. They did all sorts for him not to get there, and he got there.
“Such a man, cannot be put side by side with somebody who just slept and woke up and found himself on the seat of President.,” he said
According to him, it will amount to a waste of time for Jonathan to attempt to dislodge Tinubu in 2027.
Adediran urged Jonathan to listen to his wife, Patience, who had also urged him not to contest the 2027 Presidency.
He said that Tinubu’s personality, popularity and experience were ” intimidating” ,and that Jonathan should not risk ” a humiliating defeat” in 2027.
He said the President had done well for Nigeria and would be re-elected in 2027.
Applauding Tinubu for his economic reforms, Adediran called for continued support for the President.
He said that the reforms were beginning to yield unprecedented benefits for the people at the state and local governments.
“We are not saying all is well, but at least the President has shown the courage to take our common patrimony from the pocket of the few in the name of fuel subsidy and return it to the country, state and the local government.
“Now the allocation is tripled; not that the money is collected and retained it at the centre, the state and local governments now have enough money to impact lives.
“This has put to rest what we witnessed during late President Muhammadu Buhari’s time when states would go to a Abuja for FAAC meeting and resurne with zero allocation,” he said.
Adediran added that the President had also stabilised forex, rescuing Nigeria from the dubious practices due to discrepancies between official rates and parallel markets.
