By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Southern Frontiers (SF) on Tuesday, described former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the only winning Presidential joker for the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 general election.
SP in a communique issued at the end of its emergency meeting in Ibadan by its General Secretary, Mr. Kolawole Bamitale pointed out that for APC to be on a deserving pedestal in the coming polls, no other aspirant stands next to GEJ .
The political pressure group emphasized that Dr. Jonathan ” is the only person amongst the aspirants so far, who has the wherewithal, to rescue the country from the mess its currently enmeshed”, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari should not be carried away by political sentiments but put the right peg in a right hole.
“We have holistically placed the aspirants side-by-side with the former president and we have tried to separate the wheat from the chaff like a proverbial winnowing grain farmer and we have come out with a stark fact that in order to put APC on a deserving pedestal in the coming poll, no other aspirant stands next to stands next to GEJ in terms of what we call “CEC”-, character, experience and competence”, it said
SF added, ” at this defining moment, we don’t want a fresher who will start to experiment with Nigeria like a guinea-pig, we want someone with cognate experience to hit the ground running and put Nigeria back in its rightful position as a true giant of Africa”.
” The group are earnestly calling on the former president not to ignore the calls coming from different quarters that he should come back to take the front seat and liberate Nigeria saying “great men emerge when their need is Great” .He should rather see the calls as a “sacrifice to make for Nigeria”
SF in the communique gave seven points agenda that threw up GEJ above others as
“Jonathan is a unifier and will build the bridge between various tribes and parties.
” Smooth peaceful transition that has placed Nigeria on a global attention.
“Various reforms under GEJ administration like port reforms and Airports standardisation etc
“His fond love for home made goods which made Nigeria import bills to reduce in 2014
“He is the only aspirant who can faithfully implement the Idris kutigi led recommendations in the national conference because he started it.
“Ability to wake up the Nigeria s economy now in moribund.
“Put permanent cessation to ASSU strike which is now rampant and constitute a cog in the wheel of education.”
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