2015: We are not working against Jonathan —Yar’Adua group

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Monday, December 24th, 2012

A group of top politicians, who played key roles in the administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua has denied a media report which insinuated that they were plotting against the presumed ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

A statement signed by a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), Senator Adamu Aliero, clarified that the report of the Yar’Adua Group leading a northern opposition against Jonathan’s ambition was not only false, but misplaced.

The statement indicated that none of the persons mentioned in the report held any meeting in recent times, adding that most of them were shocked to read the news report.

“There was no any iota of truth in the story, it must have been a mere imagination of the reporter in question. All those mentioned in the report were shocked by the extent to which their integrity was impugned.

“As for 2015, we remain committed to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and we will support whoever emerges the presidential candidate of the party. If the PDP gives President Jonathan or any party member its mandate in 2015, we will work for the success of the party.

“We do not have any agenda outside that of the PDP. We have not held any secret meeting with the former presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, on 2015.

Again, why is it difficult for the reporter to hear from either the CPC or Gen. Buhari on the said secret meeting? The CPC has not hidden from the public those it is involved with in merger or realignment talks,” Alieri stated.

According to Aliero, the group did not meet in any of the places mentioned in the report. He stated that loyalists of Yar’Adua have no reason to conspire against Jonathan, who served as vice-president in the administration of the late president.

Aliero submitted further that “since Yar’Adua’s death, we have done our best to support the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and our party, the PDP which went ahead to win a rerun in Kebbi State.

“None of us has lived in trenches, we have no basis to go back to political trenches. We are not guerilla or subterranean politicians. We are not involved in political conspiracy or insurgency.

To confer this derogatory status on us is to assume that we are at war with the state or President Jonathan. We have no cause to engage in any political conspiracy.”

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