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Former President debunks alleged rumors of supporting aggrieved PDP governors

Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has debunked a purported media report that the aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors that form the G5 were loyal to him.
Mr Ikechukwu Eze, the Media Adviser to Jonathan, in a statement on Friday,November 11th, in Abuja, said the officeโs attention had been drawn to media reports linking the former president to the current troubles in the PDP.
Eze said that Jonathan would have ignored the strange tale since it was obviously baseless but he thought it crucial to clear the air and assure Nigerians of his commitment to peace.
โHowever, we are offering this clarification because we have been reached by many Nigerians who are concerned that such fabrication, with a vague and suspicious attribution, could be given undeserved prominence on the front page of some national dailies.
โWe are also not unmindful of the fact that this being an electioneering season, bizarre tales are often contrived, propagated and weaponised to either smear others or deliver cheap political advantage to the purveyors.
โFirst, we would like to make the point that it is not out of place if there was a crisis in a political party like the PDP, and a former president who served under the partyโs platform, is called upon to intervene.
โThat being the case, we initially did not see anything wrong with the headlines in some papers indicating that the former President was being persuaded to help resolve the issues in the party.
โHowever, we are dismayed that the seemingly purpose-minded headlines were only cast to mask the mischief of the sponsors of the story and hoodwink the unsuspecting populace.โ
The media advisor,Eze said the former presidentโs officeโs attention was called to the provocative and insulting statements in separate, but similar versions of the story in different news media in the country.
He said the report, either claimed that โthe whole thing we are seeing in the PDP โฆ is orchestrated for President Jonathan,โ or that โhe (Jonathan) is encouraging governors Wike, Makinde, Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi, and Ortom, to behave the way they are doing, knowing that these five governors are fighting his causeโ.
โWe believe that such duplicitous statements could not have emanated from the camps of those who truly wish the party well.
โIt simply shows that the so-called โsourcesโ of the story are not disposed to the peace and unity they pretend to be seeking in the PDP.
โHow could anybody turn around in 2022 to accuse Jonathan of bearing a grudge against the PDP when the former president had campaigned vigorously for the party and its presidential candidate during the 2019 elections?โ
Eze said those who insinuated that Jonathan was not happy with the PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, because of whatever roles he played ahead of the 2015 elections, had forgotten that the former president actively campaigned for him in 2019.
โThe fact that Dr. Jonathan stood out as an exemplary politician who, throughout his political career, abhorred treachery and mean-mindedness, and played politics without bitterness, needs no gainsay.
โUnlike many of his detractors, the former President has, out of office, progressed to a higher level of statesmanship, faithfully applying himself to causes that promote peace, love, unity, and progress, across the entire west African sub-region.
โIt is Dr Jonathanโs wish that the PDP is able to resolve its internal crisis, unite all members, and have a good showing in the forthcoming 2023 elections.
โWe wish to however point out that it will be difficult to achieve this aspiration if some forces in the party continue to engage in mudslinging, disinformation, and manifest tendencies that negate the values that are dear to loyal party members,โ Eze said.
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