Those who think Jonathan is ineligible to contest in 2015 are “jokers and jesters” – Babatope

babsPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and former transport and aviation Minister, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan is free to re-contest in the 2015 presidential election, if he so wishes.

This, he says, is in line with the constitution of the country, which allows the state governor and the president a two-term tenure of eight years, declaring that “President Jonathan is just running his first term tenure of four years.”

Chief Babatope made this known during an interview he granted to the Sunday Tribune. He described those saying President Jonathan was no longer eligible to contest the presidency in 2015 under the pretext that he completed the tenure of the late President Musa Yar’Adua as “jokers and jesters” who were ignorant of the law of the land. This is just as he declared that the ongoing merger of the opposition political parties would not last, he said “Nigerians should watch out. The so- called merger by the opposition will soon collapse like a pack of cards.”

According to him, “the political parties forming the merger are strange bed-fellows with different political outlooks, different political philosophy and different political backgrounds. Apparently, the thing is not going to work; I am so sorry for them, because it will not work.”

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