Senator Adams Oshiomhole has urged former President Goodluck Jonathan not to bow to pressure to contest the 2027 presidential election, saying doing so would damage his legacy.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics on October 5, Oshiomhole said those pushing Jonathan to return to the race were not acting in his best interest.
He argued that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would easily defeat Jonathan again if he decided to run.
“How can Jonathan be a threat? We defeated him before, when PDP was truly PDP. If a man had PDP at its peak, I think it is only his enemies that will push him into the ring,” Oshiomhole said.
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The former APC national chairman added that Jonathan had earned respect and relevance since leaving office, urging him not to throw that away for another political gamble.
“That may not be helpful to him. I think he has managed to demonstrate that out of power you can be relevant and really at peace,” he said.
“If I will be able to advise him, I will say ‘Sir, maintain this status’. If I were him I will spend the rest of my life trying to find relevance, which he has already found,” Oshiomhole added.
Jonathan, who ran as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2015, lost the presidential election to late President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.