Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday reacted to calls that he should run for the 2023 Presidency.
Jonathan said he couldn’t tell if he will run for the Presidency in 2023.
He disclosed this while addressing some supporters who besieged his office in Abuja, asking him to run for the Presidency in 2023.
According to him: “I cannot tell if I’m contesting.”
Jonathan asked Nigerian youths to show greater interest in the nation’s political process.
He said he was aware that they were “here to ask me to declare,” but he said, “I cannot declare because some process are still ongoing.”
“Yes you are calling me to come and declare for the next election, I cannot tell I’m declaring. The political process is ongoing just watch out. The key role you must play is that Nigeria must get somebody that will carry young people along.”
A spokesman for the group, Mayor Samuel, who is also the convener of the Youth Compatriots of Nigeria said, “We were deceived and brainwashed by those who claimed they could do it in 2015.
“Now, we know better, under Jonathan the minimum wage could buy one or two bags of rice. What do we have today? We are begging President Jonathan to forgive us, we have realized our mistakes, we want him back to complete what he started.
Hundreds of supporters, including women and youth groups, stormed Jonathan’s office, asking him to contest for President in 2023.
The supporters arrived at the office with a musical band around 8:50 a.m.
They lamented that hunger, insecurity, and unemployment, among others, have become the order of the day since he left office.
The supporters said that both men and women have turned to beggars because of the unfavourable policies of the present administration.