‘No going back on Jonathan in 2027’ – PDP Northern Support Group

By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto

In what appears to beryllium a large governmental connection up of the 2027 wide elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Northern Support Group has reaffirmed its full enactment for the enactment of the party’s Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Iliya Umar Damagum, and declared afloat backing for the instrumentality of erstwhile President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan arsenic the party’s statesmanlike candidate.

The declaration was contained successful a communiqué issued astatine the extremity of the group’s 8th Northern Support Group Meeting held successful Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, betwixt Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th October 2025.

The gathering brought unneurotic representatives and leaders from each bluish states, agreed by a communal imaginativeness to fortify and reposition the PDP for triumph successful 2027.

The communiqué, signed by Hon. Yusuf Abubakar, Northern Coordinator, and Hon. Adamu Ahmed Narayi, North-West Zonal Secretary, expressed the group’s assurance successful the existent enactment of the enactment and commended Ambassador Damagum’s ongoing reconciliation thrust aimed astatine restoring unity, discipline, and cohesion wrong the PDP.

The radical said it remains optimistic that the PDP is not beyond redemption and that with genuine committedness and corporate sacrifice, the enactment volition reclaim powerfulness astatine the nationalist level and successful different states presently nether the APC.

It emphasised that the clip had travel for each loyal members of the PDP to rally down erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan, whom it described arsenic a awesome of peace, unity, and progress. It further urged stakeholders to statesman nationwide mobilisation and strategical engagement to guarantee his emergence and occurrence successful 2027.

The communiqué stated that determination is nary going backmost connected Goodluck Jonathan arsenic the campaigner to redeem the party’s representation successful 2027, describing him arsenic 1 of Nigeria’s astir patriotic leaders who sacrificed idiosyncratic ambition for nationalist bid by handing implicit powerfulness peacefully aft the 2015 elections.

While dismissing concerns implicit Jonathan’s eligibility to contention again, the radical noted that the contented had agelong been settled and that absorption elements could nary longer usage it arsenic a governmental distraction.

However, the communiqué expressed heavy interest implicit the behaviour of definite enactment leaders and elders, whom it accused of moving against the PDP’s unity for selfish oregon outer interests. It specifically pointed fingers astatine immoderate members of the National Working Committee (NWC) allegedly collaborating with the ruling APC-led authorities nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

It lamented that immoderate elements wrong the NWC and among enactment elders openly undermine reconciliation efforts portion pretending to physique the PDP, describing specified treble loyalty arsenic unacceptable and calling for steadfast action.

The radical peculiarly condemned the alleged divisive actions of Minister Nyesom Wike, accusing him of deliberately sowing discord wrong the PDP portion serving successful the APC government. It said Wike’s continued recruitment of enactment members to service his idiosyncratic docket was detrimental to the unity and endurance of the PDP and indispensable beryllium addressed decisively.

The PDP Northern Support Group urged Ambassador Damagum to enforce strict disciplinary measures against immoderate stakeholder oregon subordinate whose activities weaken the party’s operation oregon image, stressing that enactment supremacy indispensable beryllium upheld supra idiosyncratic interests.

The communiqué reiterated that the PDP retains beardown grassroots enactment crossed the North and that present is the clip to rebuild structures, reconstruct mislaid glory, and instrumentality bold steps to guarantee unity, discipline, and progress.

The radical concluded by pledging unflinching loyalty to the PDP’s corporate enactment and reaffirming its committedness to gathering a cohesive, united, and formidable level susceptible of reclaiming powerfulness successful 2027.

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