The new information arose about the choice of top leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to betray President Goodluck Jonathan at last presidential poll.
Sources inside the PDP said at the weekend that the “age factor” played a key role in making a number of the top bigwigs of the party to leave their protectors at serious points and in some cases let some unfortunate things happen to the votes.
An insider defined the “age factor” as the age-related campaign riding by the PDP in a bid to checkmate president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.
It was gathered that in a bid to attract attention to the fact that a 73-year-old should not be allowed to chair over Nigerians, the PDP went too far and in the process made its leaders into considering that there would be no hope of being allowed to run in the presidential poll in 2019.
The sources within the party said that the continuous references to the fact that the PDP believes in the younger generation and that it would enable that those to take over from Jonathan would be younger than him isolated a number of chieftains who directly lost interest in mounting a vociferous campaign.
An insider noted that President Jonathan himself played into the hands of those who deceived him when he repeatedly mentioned the age factor and the role age would play in defining his successor in 2019, if he succeeds in winning the 2015 election.
According to the scheming, Jonathan’s declaration would automatically ban the like of Vice-President Namadi Sambo; Jigawa state governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido; governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger state, Senate President David Mark, National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu and the governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda from the 2019 contest.
It was gathered that following repeated mentioning of the age factor, the camps of many chieftains became nervous and hand-hot towards the Jonathan campaign, thus flagging the way for the All Progressives Congress aspirant.
While governor Aliyu said last week that Jonathan’s denial to respect the single term pact he had with the governors led to PDP’s failure, information collected at the top ladder of the part have proved the real matters.
The source said: “I was with one of the top brass during the campaign, and I saw his countenance when the president mentioned the issue of age and suggested that the PDP would ensure the emergence of a younger successor for him if he wins the 2015 election. I recall the man was cold and that was the way it affected all other chieftains, who began to feel what would be in the offing for them if they frontally backed Jonathan to the Presidency in 2015. “
The source further noted that Aliyu could not be trusted, because he was in Lagos to visit the PDP Governors’ Forum meeting a week before the poll and asked for his re-election at the meeting.
However, some other plot theories have commenced trending at the weekend disclosing the grand conspiracy that knocked Jonathan out of the race.
A file titled: “Let them know that we know” specified that supposed huge conspiracy that led to Jonathan’s ouster.
The document said in part: “In a gradual process, we will say things the way they were, we will speak of the conspiracy that even the closest ally of President Jonathan entered into in the dark against our people.”
The document supposed that the outcome from Bauchi State was at a stage reading 457,786, for APC and 559,897 for the PDP but that when the anti-Jonathan program was supposedly burned, the figures changed.
It made similar accusation about Kano, signifying that the PDP had recorded close to half a million votes and was closely trailing the APC before things purportedly changed.
It should be noted that Doyin Okupe, the senior special aide to the President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs,has recently stated that incapability of Jonathan's administration to rescue the abducted by Boko Haram sect Chibok girls was one of the reasons of his failure.
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