TY Danjuma, a retired lieutenant general and
former chief of army staff, says he would not
canvass support for the re-election of
President Goodluck Jonathan “because I don’t
belong to any party”.
He was speaking to the media on Wednesday
after a brief meeting with the president at the
presidential villa.
Asked if he was going to canvass support for
the president ahead of the elections, he replied:
“I don’t canvass. I am not in any of the political
parties. The president is the president of the
country.”
He and Jonathan met for roughly 10 minutes
but the discussions were classified as
“confidential” by the former minister of defence.
He was received by the president at the
entrance of his official residence at 9.30am.
They held hands and walked into the residence
for a closed door meeting.
“Don’t speculate. I came to visit the president
and find out how things are going. I have been
abroad. I just came back,” he said when he
came out of the meeting.
Danjuma, who is being speculated as backing
Jonathan’s challenger, Muhammadu Buhari,
recently called for the arrest of ex-Niger Delta
militants who threatened war if the president
was not re-elected.
The ex-militants replied by threatening to hurt
his interests in the oil industry.
Danjuma’s company, South Atlantic Petroleum,
operates a very lucrative oil block.
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