BREAKING: Why Goodluck Jonathan left PDP – Sule Lamido reveals

Sule Lamido, former two-term governor of Jigawa state says former president Goodluck Jonathan has subtly left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) owing to his absence at major national events of the party.

“I doubt it; he has not been attending recent activities of our party,” Lamido responded to questions regarding  Jonathan’s party membership in an interview with the BBC.

Jonathan was observed to have been trimming public affiliation with the party from his absence at the party’s October 2021 national convention where Iyoricha Ayu was elected national chairman.

Prior to that, widespread information also claimed that the former president might be President Buhari’s anointed in the forthcoming 2023 elections.

Although Jonathan lost his reelection to Buhari, he would go on to extend a rather strange bipartisan friendship to the president, frequently visiting Buhari and holding private meetings.

Jonathan has spent his time after office mediating in political conflicts across Africa and has not declared to be running in 2023 but the All Progressive Congress (APC) has said it would not deny him its platform if he wishes to contest in the elections.

Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election to former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari, and was the first incumbent President in Nigerian history to concede defeat in an election.