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Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan undertook before elections in 2011 to serve only one term as head of state, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said.
“President Jonathan said, not only once, twice, publicly, not only inside Nigeria, outside Nigeria, that he would have one term, and said that to me,” Obasanjo said in an interview in London.
Jonathan, a southern Christian, has been in power since his predecessor Umaru Yar’Adua died in office in 2010. When he won 2011 elections he broke an unwritten convention within the ruling People’s Democratic Party to rotate power between the south and the mainly Muslim north of Africa’s biggest oil producer. Jonathan, 56, has not yet said whether he intends to stand for re-election in a vote scheduled for 2015.
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Source: Bloomberg
“President Jonathan said, not only once, twice, publicly, not only inside Nigeria, outside Nigeria, that he would have one term, and said that to me,” Obasanjo said in an interview in London.
Jonathan, a southern Christian, has been in power since his predecessor Umaru Yar’Adua died in office in 2010. When he won 2011 elections he broke an unwritten convention within the ruling People’s Democratic Party to rotate power between the south and the mainly Muslim north of Africa’s biggest oil producer. Jonathan, 56, has not yet said whether he intends to stand for re-election in a vote scheduled for 2015.
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Source: Bloomberg
