IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR JONATHAN TO SERVE SECOND TERM – ARDO

AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. ARDO

What’s your view on the position of some ‘Middle Belt’ agitators in the north like General Lawrence Onoja and the others who insist that Jonathan must have a second term while the north waits till 2019?
Middle Belt within the matrix of Nigeria’s national politics is a political, rather than a geographical expression. It is political term used to distinguish the two distinctively different components of Northern Nigeria: Caliphate-North (including the Sultanate of Borno and others) and Non-caliphate North; in other words, the Muslim-North and the Non-Muslim North respectively. What is usually referred to as the “Core North” represents the Caliphate-North, while the Middle Belt represents the Non-caliphate North.  

Do you see the activities of the G-5 PDP governors as posing any threat to the PDP in 2015?  
No, I don’t. The 5 governors are those of Adamawa, Jigawa, Niger, Kano and Sokoto states. With the exception of Adamawa all these states did not vote PDP in the 2011 general elections. Even in Adamawa it was not because of Governor Nyako that President Jonathan won with the slight margin that he did.

Some top PDP leaders and particularly the five governors have raised issues regarding President Jonathan’s aides and the party leadership. Do you believe those are the main issues working against the PDP?
Yes, they are issues working against the PDP in so far as they are working against the government and person of the President. But I have raised the issue of the President’s aides long time ago in the wake of the President’s misfortunate visit to Borno state at the beginning of this year. The governors are raising the matter now because the positions and outbursts of some of these aides have become a source of discomfort to the governors personally.

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