{"id":179335,"date":"2025-09-18T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:55:40","slug":"kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition","title":{"rendered":"Kukah Advises Jonathan on 2027 Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has urged former President Goodluck Jonathan to be cautious as he weighs calls to contest the 2027 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Wednesday at the Democracy Dialogue of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation in Accra, Ghana, Kukah praised Jonathan\u2019s 2015 conceding of defeat as a defining moment for Nigeria\u2019s democracy, describing it as an act of sacrifice and honor.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Jonathan had the power and resources to resist the outcome of the election but instead chose peace, a decision Kukah said restored hope in democratic governance.<\/p>\n<p>However, the cleric cautioned the former president to tread carefully in considering a political comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Danjuma, Kukah said: \u201cThe voice of the devil is not so far from the voice of God. Listen very carefully to those who want to use you as an instrument for the elongation of their interests, and not your interests or the interests of Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged Jonathan to reflect deeply, pray, and make a decision guided by conscience and the national interest.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI therefore want to end by saying, first of all, it\u2019s a great honor, President Jonathan, for me to be here. When you took that decision on March, 31, 2015, he\u2019s written a little book, which you should read \u2018My Transition Hours\u2019, when you took that decision, was one of those moments that it was between yourself, your conscience, your God against the run of play. O the 31st of March, 2015, even before the elections had concluded, when you made that call, you were answering what to me was more or less a divine call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd by taking that decision, not only did you reverse, and I think your successor made the point himself over and over that you had all the military, you had all the paraphernalia of power around you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would have been possible to instigate a war, but by taking that decision, in my view, the people of Athens entrusted into your hands, a touch of hope, a touch of what democracy should look like, the honor, the dignity, the sense of sacrifice, that is what democracy is all about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou illustrated that, and it\u2019s the reason why when you call, I will come, when you knock, I will open the door. Because right now I had to excuse myself from a meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, which is still on. Our meeting is finishing, actually, on Sunday, but I had to excuse myself to be here because I thought it was a great honor for me, you know, to be with you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut please, General Theophilus Danjuma, one of our greatest statesmen, President Obasanjo\u2019s colleague, once said very often, the voice of the devil is not so far from the voice of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen very carefully to those who want to use you as an instrument for the elongation of their interests, and not your interests or the interests of Nigeria. Think very clearly. Pray very clearly. Final decision, it\u2019s your call.\u201d<\/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. Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has urged former President Goodluck Jonathan to be cautious as he weighs calls to contest the 2027 presidential election. Speaking on Wednesday at the Democracy Dialogue of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation in Accra, Ghana, Kukah praised Jonathan\u2019s 2015 conceding of defeat as a defining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1635,1263,254],"class_list":["post-179335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-jonathan","tag-kukah","tag-nigeria"],"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>Kukah Advises Jonathan on 2027 Ambition - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has urged former President Goodluck Jonathan to be cautious as h ...\" \/>\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\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kukah Advises Jonathan on 2027 Ambition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has urged former President Goodluck Jonathan to be cautious as h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-18T07:48:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-18T08:55:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758173331.364348.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\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=\"3 minutes\" \/>\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\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kukah Advises Jonathan on 2027 Ambition\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-18T07:48:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-18T08:55:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition\"},\"wordCount\":530,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758173331.364348.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"jonathan\",\"Kukah\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kukah-advises-jonathan-on-2027-ambition\",\"name\":\"Kukah Advises Jonathan on 2027 Ambition - 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