The former Special Adviser on Political Matters to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak opened up recently on his former boss…

“As a practical politician, ex-President Jonathan has nothing to do with the party administration; and the party should be firm on that. If I were the national chairman of the party, the president must take instructions from me because it is my party that gave him the platform to become president; so the president should listen to the party – and the party should advise the president. It was the leadership of PDP that mismanaged the party.

I was the political adviser of ex-President Jonathan. I had searched all the documents to see the rumoured one tenure pact signed by Jonathan; I did not see anything like that. I asked Jonathan himself, he said there was no pact signed by him. I asked further if there was any verbal agreement, he said there was none. But if somebody on his behalf went and committed him, he (Jonathan) cannot be held accountable for that.

I don’t believe that the Goodluck Jonathan we had was this weak like Nigerians will like to say. This a man who believes in the constitutionality of every action; who believes in robust consultation in whatever he does because if we run counter to the laws of the land, anarchy will set in – that is what the man was trying to avoid.”

– Culled from PUNCH.