Junaid explains why Jonathan will not win in 2015

Convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, who was a Kano State delegate to the recent National Conference, has explained his earlier submission that President Jonathan cannot win in 2015 if the presidential poll is credible, alleging that it is because he never won any election in the past. This is as he also accused the present administration of being irredeemably corrupt and incompetent.

Dr. Mohammed, who is widely believed to be a northern irredentist, made his position known in an interview with PUNCH, where he said, “if he is to be voted for without recourse to ethnicity and religious bias and people are to vote for him on the basis of performance, there is no reason why any part of this country should vote for him- apart from the mercenary Igbo and of course, the Ijaw who are opportunistic, they are the only people who will have occasion to vote for Jonathan. When I say Ijaw, I choose my words carefully because most of the people who got appointments in this government are Ijaw, not Kalabari, their cousins, not the people of Akwa Ibom whether they are Anang or Ibibio,”

He noted that the election which brought President Jonathan to power as number two to Umaru Yar’Adua was not a credible election, just as “the election he was alleged to have won in 2011 was not credible and I don’t believe he could win any election if anybody is to vote rationally.” He explained what he meant by ‘rationally’ to be that if people are to vote for a man on the basis of his performance which must tally with what he promised to do, there is no way Jonathan will win in 2015.

Dr Mohammed, who noted that he employed Jonathan as Assistant Director in OMPADEC when he was a Federal Commissioner in Port Harcourt, averred that the President has never denied me, neither has he ever denied circumstances surrounding how he got in OMPADEC. He explained his description of Jonathan as a bad president because he believes that every Nigerian has a right to be given a sense of belonging. “I believe one of the good aspects of a government is how inclusive it is so that every Nigerian should have a sense of belonging,” he said.

He further accused the Jonathan’s government of being “involved with Boko Haram directly and indirectly with some of the terrorists in the Niger Delta.

“Anybody who believes that there is a direct connection knows that this Boko Haram insurgency is not coming out of the blues; it is being financed indirectly or directly by the government.”

He warned that if government plans to encourage people to unleash violence prior to the election with the aim of abandoning them afterwards, such people will take up arms and unleash terror on the government.