A northern political group, Arewa People’s Patriotic Front (APPFRONT) has given the Baraje breakaway faction of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) the option to either avail themselves for dialogue and genuine reconciliation with the Bamanga Tukur led PDP, leave the party or  seek legal redress in the courts, rather than overheating the polity of the nation.

The group also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint persons with track record of tangible contributions to their local communities as the next crop of ministers and not opportunists who have distanced themselves from happenings in their local communities.

At a news conference in Kaduna, APPFRONT National President, Mordecai Ibrahim condemned the barrage of attacks on the office and the person of President Goodluck Jonathan over his yet to be announced ambition for 2015 by the Baraje group,  adding that majority of those launching the attacks are only out to seek undue relevance.

While it pointed out that they are not in any way campaigning for President Jonathan, the group said it is undemocratic or unconstitutional for the G7 governors to ask the President to drop his 2015 presidential ambition.

“Nigerian voters will decide the President’s fate in 2015 and not  any of the  G7 governors or their supporters,” Ibrahim said.

He added that the purported agreement by President Jonathan to serve only one term as alleged by the G7 governors was to blackmail him.