{"id":781,"date":"2025-08-15T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:41:16","slug":"2027-no-politician-including-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu-presidential-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"2027: No politician, including Jonathan, can defeat Tinubu \u2014Presidential aide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has dismissed speculations about former President Goodluck Jonathan posing a threat to Tinubu\u2019s re-election bid in the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also declared that no politician in Nigeria today has the capacity to defeat Tinubu at the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ayra Starr - Goodbye (Warm Up) ft. 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You have seen governors coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presidential aide also questioned the motives of northern political figures urging Jonathan to run, noting that some of these individuals were instrumental in opposing him during his presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe elements that are going to him in the north, asking him to come to run, were they not the ones that chased him away?<br>\u201cSo what hope does he have that this time around, they are calling him because they mean well for him? Then look at the political class that is coming together to cajole him to come into politics. I know President Goodluck Jonathan is smarter than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bwala expressed confidence in Tinubu\u2019s victory should Jonathan runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut if President Jonathan decides to run, let me tell you, I have seen the political climate in Nigeria today, and I will speak to facts, not conjecture. There is not a single politician that has the capacity to knock off President Bola Tinubu.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the 2027 polls barely two years away, opposition figures, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, former Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai, former Senate President, David Mark, among several others, are joining forces to sack the ruling All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calls have also been made for former President Goodluck Jonathan to join the 2027 presidential race, although he has yet to make his position known publicly. <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/2027-no-politician-including-jonathan-can-defeat-tinubu-presidential-aide\/\">(Punch)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has dismissed speculations about former President Goodluck Jonathan posing a threat to Tinubu\u2019s re-election bid in the 2027 general elections. 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