2027 Elections: How Jonathan Allegedly Planning His Campaign

• Former President Goodluck has been reportedly putting permutations in place to join the 2027 presidential race
• Jonathan’s move followed public outcry, including his wife, Patience, who has wondered why the former president would want to take up the burden God has relieved him
• Multiple sources have disclosed that the former president’s camp have been having series of meetings outside the country to avoid infiltrators

Goodluck Jonathan, the former president, has allegedly started planning to contest in the 2027 presidential election, even though there was public rejection of the ambition from his wife and the former first lady, Patience.

Legit.ng recalled that the former first lady lamented the pressure that comes with holding public office when she received the Women Icon Leader of the Year Award in Abuja in May 2025.

Her statement reads in part:

“The distress of Nigeria is so much that if God manages to bring you out of it, you should glorify Him. Why do you want to go back there?”

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She added that the current peace she enjoys is enough for her and subsequently endorsed the administration of President Bola Tinubu. She also promised to campaign for Tinubu’s second term in office.

However, Daily Sun in a report disclosed that the former president was not shaken by the disapproval of his wife over his ambition and has therefore intensified his move to ensure that he clinch the presidential ticket of the PDP.

2027 election: Jonathan’s camp holds meetings abroad

To outsmart spies in the camp, many supporters of the former president, especially those in his inner circle have held several meetings outside the country with a focus to consolidate the former president’s support base within the PDP as well as coming up with the strategy to handle what they referred to as “Nyesom Wike problem”.

The coinage was a reference to the conflict between the PDP and the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Wike in his last interview urged the former president not to join the 2027 race but should maintain his pace of a statesman. The minister also accused those calling for the return of the former president as betrayal and hypocrites, saying the same people undermined him in the 2015 presidential election.

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Jonathan’s camp were said to be worried about Wike’s comment, describing it as a threat to Jonathan’s second coming as a source disclosed that the minister’s opposition cannot be ignored, which was “why some of our meetings have been about how to ensure he does not become a stumbling block.”

Source: Legit.ng