Nigeria: Jonathan Vowed to Serve Single Term, Obasanjo Insists

13 February 2014

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has restated his opposition to the second term bid of President Goodluck Jonathan, insisting that the president is reneging on his promise before the 2011 elections to serve only one term.

"President Jonathan said, not only once, twice, publicly, not only inside Nigeria, outside Nigeria, that he would have one term, and said that to me," a report Wednesday by Bloomberg quoted Obasanjo as saying in an interview in London.

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