IS JONATHAN ELIGIBLE TO CONTEST IN 2015?

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja that contrary to the provision of the 1999 constitution, the tenure of an incumbent president can extend beyond four or eight years.

A suit, one of many, was filed against him by a Port Harcourt-based legal practitioner, Henry Amadi, contending that Jonathan is not eligible to contest in 2015 on the premise that by so doing he would be spending more than the maximum period of two terms of four years envisaged by the 1999 constitution since he is already in his second term in office.

The president seems confident that he can run in 2015. So, do you guys think he eligible? Isn't that the same with Obasanjo's third-term agenda which was vehemently criticized by Nigerians and frustrated by the senate?