Details Of Jonathan’s Visit To APC Chairman Revealed

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Monday night, hosted former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday night, confirming what had been rumours about the latter’s defection to the ruling party.

Monday’s meeting came barely three hours after a group of Fulani cattle breeders paid N100million to obtain an APC presidential nomination form for the former president.
It was also the first meeting between Jonathan and the leader of any political party since he left office in 2015.

Speaking shortly before buying the forms at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, the leader of the Fulani group, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said Jonathan was the first president since Nigeria’s independence, who was magnanimous to them.

Meanwhile, sources close to the Monday night meeting said both men, who were colleague-governors between 2003 and 2007, “exhaustively” discussed the former president’s aspiration to return as president in 2023.

“You know Senator Abdullahi Adamu and former President Goodluck Jonathan were governors of Nasarawa and Bayelsa respectively between 2003 and 2007. They both were in PDP.

By divine arrangement, both are now in the APC,” a source close to the meeting stated, adding that, “God works in mysterious ways.”
Curiously, while former President Jonathan and the APC national chairman were meeting, a statement emanated from the office of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation disassociating Jonathan from the 2023 presidential contest.

However, sources close to what transpired at the Monday night meeting said that the statement may have been made in response to the barrage of questions from journalists on the matter, and the inability to reach the former president “who was meeting his party’s national chairman.”

A source noted, “Forget what the Jonathan Foundation said. If, as they would want us to believe, their principal was yet to join APC, what was he doing in the private home of the APC national chairman in the dead of the night just few hours after a group bought him the party’s presidential form?”

She also drew attention to a tweet same Monday night, by President Muhammadu Buhari’s media aide, Bashir Ahmad.
“So Goodluck Jonathan has dumped the opposition PDP and now member of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC),” Buhari’s aide tweeted.

The source confirmed that the former president has indeed joined the APC in his ward in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, and affirmed that her boss would “win the 2023 presidential election on the APC platform.”

She continued, “N100 million isn’t N1million. It will be wicked and the height of insensitivity for President Goodluck Jonathan to reject the presidential nomination forms from the Fulani group on the flimsy excuse that he wasn’t in the know, or that he’s not a member of the APC.

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