{"id":173804,"date":"2025-08-12T21:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:48:56","slug":"jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan&#8217;s Magic Wand to Revive Nigeria&#8217;s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Sani, has said that former president Goodluck Jonathan has the magic wand to revive Nigeria\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Sani made this statement on Tuesday while answering questions on \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the 2027 general elections, Sani said that the best bet for the PDP is Jonathan, whom he said is the better option in the interest of the Northern region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we are not looking at Jonathan from the promised angle. That has been resolved. The law has already been taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe cannot do more than one term. So if he cannot do more than one term by the provisions of the law and the constitution, then the only thing remaining for him is to do that one term and go away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sani had said that Northern Nigeria would prefer Jonathan to emerge as the party\u2019s presidential candidate rather than Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Sani, has said that former president Goodluck Jonathan has the magic wand to revive Nigeria\u2019s economy. Sani made this statement on Tuesday while answering questions on \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, a programme on Channels Television. Ahead of the 2027 general elections, Sani said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[13554,1635,254,65,3627],"class_list":["post-173804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-13554","tag-jonathan","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-sani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jonathan&#039;s Magic Wand to Revive Nigeria&#039;s Economy - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Sani, has said that former president Goodluck Jonathan has the ma ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jonathan&#039;s Magic Wand to Revive Nigeria&#039;s Economy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Sani, has said that former president Goodluck Jonathan has the ma ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-12T20:33:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-12T21:48:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755022895.341635.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"651\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Jonathan&#8217;s Magic Wand to Revive Nigeria&#8217;s Economy\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-12T20:33:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-12T21:48:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755022895.341635.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2027\",\"jonathan\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"sani\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jonathans-magic-wand-to-revive-nigerias-economy\",\"name\":\"Jonathan's Magic Wand to Revive Nigeria's Economy - 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