2027: Jonathan too smart to risk his legacy for another presidency — Ex-Minister

Former Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Edem Duke, has dismissed suggestions that erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan could beryllium drawn into progressive partisan authorities up of the 2027 wide election, describing specified moves arsenic misguided.

Speaking connected Prime Time connected Arise Television on Wednesday, Duke said Jonathan’s tenure arsenic president remains 1 of the defining periods successful Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian past and argued that the erstwhile leader’s stature arsenic a statesman should not beryllium subjected to governmental calculations.

He expressed interest implicit reports linking Jonathan to a imaginable instrumentality to frontline politics, saying individuals promoting the thought were attempting to usage the erstwhile president’s estimation and integrity for governmental purposes.

According to Duke, Jonathan has built a beardown bequest some wrong Nigeria and crossed Africa, adding that his power arsenic a statesman extends beyond electoral politics.

The erstwhile curate stated that Jonathan understands the implications of the governmental discussions surrounding his sanction and is improbable to hazard his lasting by pursuing different statesmanlike ambition.

He said: “The quality of t...