IT emerged at the weekend that recent
outbursts by former President Olusegun Obasanjo against President Goodluck
Jonathan stemmed from the latter’s refusal to implement a proposal from the
former president in respect of the 2015 elections.
Sources in Abuja told Sunday Tribune that the former
president had sent emissaries and also whispered to Jonathan that he would back
his 2015 ambition if he (Jonathan) agreed to drop Vice-President Namadi Sambo
as his running mate.
It was gathered that the former
president had spoken in favour of Jonathan fielding Jigawa State governor, Sule
Lamido, as his running mate.
A source confirmed that some common
friends of the former president and Jonathan who attempted to talk Obasanjo
into dropping his opposition against the president were told that he (Jonathan)
had to agree to drop Sambo as his running mate.
It was also confirmed that the former
president had confirmed the proposal at a recent encounter between him and
Jonathan.
A source said the president was told
that he would be on the same page with Obasanjo, if he agreed to pick Lamido as
his running mate in 2015 and dropped Sambo.
Sources spoken to by Sunday Tribune
also confirmed the development, saying that Jonathan was, however,
non-committal.
“The president could not give
Obasanjo any affirmative answer, because he believes that the request was
uncalled for,” a source said.
Sources also told Sunday Tribune that
Jonathan believed that dropping Sambo would open a new fiat of trouble for his
camp.
“You don’t try and solve a problem
and create another in the process,” a source said, adding that Sambo had worked
assiduously with Jonathan without frictions.
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