Obasanjo Exposes The Promise Jonathan Made Over 2nd Term bid

We all know that the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and President Jonathan are not in good terms. Obasanjo insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan actually entered into an agreement with those in the country's political block, essentially, the Northern political circle. Chief Obasanjo, while answering questions from media personalities, said President Goodluck Jonathan actually did make a promise to Nigerians to serve only a term in office.

“President Jonathan said, not only once, twice, publicly, not only inside Nigeria, outside Nigeria, that he would have one term, and said that to me,” a report on Wednesday by Bloomberg quoted Obasanjo as saying in an interview in London.

Jonathan has been in power since his predecessor, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua died in office in 2010. When he won in 2011, he broke an unwritten convention within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rotate power between the South and the North. Jonathan, 56, has not yet said whether he would stand for re-election in a vote scheduled for 2015.

 Obasanjo was quoted as saying:

“One of the things that is very important in the life of any man or any person, is that he will be a man or a person of his word,”. “If you decide your word should not be taken seriously that’s entirely up to you.”

Presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, couldn’t be reached on his mobile phone for comment as it was switched off.
Obasanjo, who backed Jonathan’s presidential campaign four years ago, declined to say whether Jonathan should or should not stand for re-election.