Former presidential candidate of the defunct National Action Council(NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro, yesterday warned that the  ethno-religiousgang-up against the 2015 presidential ambition of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan by some political leaders will not be in the interest of the country.

Speaking in an interview with newsmen in Ibadan Agoro said "it will pay the nation for President Jonathan to be allowed to contest the 2015 election, if the President wishes, and lose fairly, than being gang-raped by the religio-political sentimentalists."

He maintained that President Jonathan was a careful manipulator, “who will use all political cum economic power at his disposal to hurt deeply the polity should he be ganged-up against”. While noting that there is no hiding the fact that the President was seriously interested in contesting in the 2015 polls, he said that the fragmentation of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) is a direct attack on the President's second term ambition.

He added that the emerging new political parties and the political association of the group of eight northern governors was a clear manifestation of a gang-up against Jonathan on ethno-religious basis.

He said the Atiku Abubarka's People's Democratic Movement(PDM), the un-registered APC and the new parties coming up have their roots in northern Nigeria, while the leadership composition of the All Progressive Alliance (APC) suggests that the political party is pro-Islamic. "The leadership composition of the newly registered APC is pro-Islamic with Buhari, Tinubu, Raji Fasola, Abiola Isiaka Ajimobi, Rauf Aregbesola, Ibikunle Amosun, Bisi Akande, Lai Muhammed as leaders.

If care is not taken, the new political divide in Nigeria, if

view from all ramification, suggests Christian/Muslim divide, which may lead us to another Syria or Lebanon.

"With President Jonathan's government fighting the Boko-Haram, a pro-Islamic fundamentalist group, all the new political parties will be adding fuel to the burning inferno,” he added.