Former President Goodluck Jonathan has told protesters who stormed his house in Abuja on Friday that he is consulting and making moves.
The protesters had barricaded his house early in the morning, calling on him to run for the presidency in 2023.
A spokesman for the group, Mayor Samuel, who is also the convener of the Youth Compatriots of Nigeria they were deceived and brainwashed by those who claimed they could do it in 2015.
According to him: “Now, we know better, under Jonathan the minimum wage could buy one or two bags of rice. What do we have today? We are begging President Jonathan to forgive us, we have realized our mistakes, we want him back to complete what he started” Vanguard quoted him as saying.
Responding to them, Jonathan asked Nigerian youths to show greater interest in the nation’s political process.
The former President said it was time for youths to take advantage of the Not Too Young To Run Act to participate actively in the electoral process.
He said he was aware that they were “here to ask me to declare,” but he said, “I cannot declare because some processes are still ongoing.”
“Yes you are calling me to come and declare for the next election, I cannot tell I’m declaring. The political process is ongoing just watch out. The key role you must play is that Nigeria must get somebody that will carry young people along.”
