A former Kaduna state chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Yaro Makama Rigachikun, has explained
why the north did not vote for former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015
presidential election.
Rigachikun, while speaking in
Kaduna Thursday during a solidarity visit by Sanga PDP Stakeholders Forum to
the state PDP gubernatorial candidate, Isa Ashiru, explained that the former
President took oath of office twice.
He further explained, “He was
sworn in when late Umaru Yar’adua died. He was again sworn-in in 2011 when he
won that year’s presidential election. To the Northern establishment, he was
sworn in twice, which was in tandem with the constitution.
“To allow the former leader to be
sworn in for the third time was against the spirit of the constitution and the
Northern establishment would not take that.”
Alhaji Yaro Makama Rigachikun
observed that the second reason was the issue of suspicious and distrust
because the Northern establishment suspected that the former leader had a hand
in Boko Haram.
Reacting to the recent book
released by the former President, Goodluck Jonathan, the PDP chieftain said
there was the need to tell the world the real reasons the north dumped Jonathan
in 2015.
He explained that events later
proved that the former leader was not behind the insurgency, adding that the
people later realised that Jonathan’s hands was never in Boko Haram.
Alhaji Yaro Makama observed, “The
issue of Boko Haram is still very much around us, even President Buhari is
still grappling with the issue of insurgency in the north and other parts of
the country.”
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