Former Nigeria President, Goodluck Jonathan is under pressure from his key advisers and some former members of his cabinet to ignore calls to join the 2023 presidential race.

He is unlikely to switch camps to the All Progressives Congress (APC) either, CEOAFRICA source gathered authoritatively yesterday.

The APC, on its part, is unwilling to fulfill a major condition from Jonathan: his adoption as the party’s consensus candidate in the 2023 election.

Sources close to the ex-president said yesterday in Abuja that many of his leading advisers and ex-ministers told him last Wednesday to forget about ditching PDP for APC.

Their stance, according to sources, stemmed from alleged feedback from the camp of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC leadership that they were “not forthcoming on automatic presidential ticket for Jonathan.”

The advisers got to know that Jonathan was advised to “go and try his luck” like other aspirants.

According to some of the advisers, it was also glaring that APC presidential aspirants were not prepared to support the ‘consensus option’ for the former President.

“We have looked at all the options Jonathan presented and we asked him to shelve his ambition and plans to move to APC,” said one of the sources.

Continuing, he said: “Up till Wednesday, he had not got a firm commitment either from Buhari or APC to be the consensus candidate.

“He is also not in a position to win the APC presidential primaries because he has no structure in place barely a month to the primaries.

“In fairness, we felt there was no possibility of wielding the state apparatchik in his favour to earn the APC presidential ticket.”

Another reliable source said: “Some members of the cabinet of the former President told him that it was in his interest to be an international statesman than to drag himself into the murky politics of the 2023 presidential contest.

“More importantly, we made him to realise that he could not get our backing if he shifted to the APC that maligned his administration, hounded, arrested and jailed some of those who served in his cabinet.

“In fact, we asked him what he would tell Nigerians for shifting his political base from PDP to APC. It just does not add up.”

Responding to a question, the source added: “Jonathan was in a tight corner because of a few elements pushing him to defect to APC. But at the end of the day, he would be the loser.