Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, pressure is mounting on former President, Goodluck Jonathan to join the race.
The former president is under pressure, especially from the northern opposition, to declare his interest to run against President Bola Tinubu.
Jonathan served as Nigerian president for about five years.
The former Bayelsa State governor became a president by chance following the death of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in May 2010.
Yar’Adua served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010.
He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April, 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007.
On Thursday May 6, 2010, Jonathan was sworn in as 14th head of state and 4th executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
After completing the tenure of Yar’Adua, Jonathan contested and won the presidential election in 2011 but was defeated by the coalition of political parties under the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015, in his second attempt.
Back then in 2015, there was heated debate about an individual being sworn in thrice as the President of Nigeria as some groups opposed Jonathan’s emergence for this reason.
#Muktv had then reported that some Northern youths called on Jonathan to bury his second term ambition, declaring that no Nigerian President can be sworn in thrice.
The youths, under the aegis of Arewa Youths Forum, AYF, said the then president had taken the oath of office twice.
The debate resonated again in 2023 when different positions on his eligibility for the 2023 presidential election made the rounds.
