The Taminu Turaki-led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has highlighted the main reasons it settled for former president Goodluck Jonathan as its sole presidential candidate in next year’s general elections.
Speaking during an interview on Trust TV, Tuesday, a stalwart of the party, Umar Sani, attributed their choice to the nostalgia Nigerians have for Jonathan.
Sani said the PDP had to look at the interests of the voters across the country before arriving at the decision.
According to him, Jonathan carved a niche for himself when he was the president from 2010 to 2015.
“We have to look at the interests of our voters all over the country and look at how we can penetrate those voters and be able to get them to support us.
“One of the interests is to have one term as a president, and it will appeal to a certain category of voters. It is, of course, in our interest to project that.
“Nevertheless, the most important reason why we brought Jonathan is because of the nostalgia that Nigerians have for him.
“If you meet an ordinary man in the street and he was there during Jonathan’s period. He will tell you that a bag of rice was sold for N7,500 or N8,000. And also, these are some of the allures that people remember him for,” he said.