21 February 2015
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Obasanjo is a father to me and I am his first political son -GEJ
President Jonathan says despite former Pres. Obasanjo's
recent verbal attacks on his administration, he still sees
him as his father and his first Political son. GEJ said God
used people, including the former president to make him
become the President of Nigeria. President Jonathan said
this in an interview with Tribune in Lagos
"First and foremost, Obasanjo is a father to me. By
divine providence and the grace of God, I am the
President of Nigeria today. It is not by my strength.
But God uses human beings to actualise His own
blessings on human beings. And He used so many
Nigerians, including former President Obasanjo, to
play one role or the other for me. I became the deputy
governor of a state, became the governor, the vice
president and president. I have no issues with him,
and I really don’t want to join issues with President
Obasanjo.
I think it is not necessary. But I will use this
opportunity, because you asked, to just plead with my
father that he is a leader, a former president of the
country. He has led the country more than anybody,
eight years of democratic governance and almost four
years of military governance. No other person has
that kind of record. The stability of this country is
critical in terms of the economy of this country.
Rating agencies downgrade countries that are going
into elections because the feeling is that there would
be crisis. When you paint the colour of instability for
your own nation, you are doing so much injustice to
the country because it affects the economy of the
country, not just affecting the country in terms of
security and social issues alone. It affects the
economy directly. So, I plead with very senior citizens
that Nigeria is dear to us; we don’t have any other
country than Nigeria. So, actions and inactions, or
utterances, should be guarded so that we don’t
expose our country to the international community as
if it is a country in danger, a country that is about to
collapse. You are frightening investors, especially
those who invest hot cash, to pull out their money
from the country and that would affect the stock
market and it would affect the economy. For one
reason or the other, Obasanjo may disagree with me
as his first political son. You can even disagree with
your own biological children, as a human being, not to
talk of disagreeing with your political children. So, he
can agree or disagree with me, but the utterances
have to be managed in a way that it does not affect
the economy and security of this country"he said.
On how he felt watching Chief Obasanjo destroy his PDP
membership card on the television, Jonathan said the
incident had no effect on him because the attacks had been
consistent.
recent verbal attacks on his administration, he still sees
him as his father and his first Political son. GEJ said Godused people, including the former president to make him
become the President of Nigeria. President Jonathan said
this in an interview with Tribune in Lagos
"First and foremost, Obasanjo is a father to me. By
divine providence and the grace of God, I am the
President of Nigeria today. It is not by my strength.
But God uses human beings to actualise His own
blessings on human beings. And He used so many
Nigerians, including former President Obasanjo, to
play one role or the other for me. I became the deputy
governor of a state, became the governor, the vice
president and president. I have no issues with him,
and I really don’t want to join issues with President
Obasanjo.
I think it is not necessary. But I will use this
opportunity, because you asked, to just plead with my
father that he is a leader, a former president of the
country. He has led the country more than anybody,
eight years of democratic governance and almost four
years of military governance. No other person has
that kind of record. The stability of this country is
critical in terms of the economy of this country.
Rating agencies downgrade countries that are going
into elections because the feeling is that there would
be crisis. When you paint the colour of instability for
your own nation, you are doing so much injustice to
the country because it affects the economy of the
country, not just affecting the country in terms of
security and social issues alone. It affects the
economy directly. So, I plead with very senior citizens
that Nigeria is dear to us; we don’t have any other
country than Nigeria. So, actions and inactions, or
utterances, should be guarded so that we don’t
expose our country to the international community as
if it is a country in danger, a country that is about to
collapse. You are frightening investors, especially
those who invest hot cash, to pull out their money
from the country and that would affect the stock
market and it would affect the economy. For one
reason or the other, Obasanjo may disagree with me
as his first political son. You can even disagree with
your own biological children, as a human being, not to
talk of disagreeing with your political children. So, he
can agree or disagree with me, but the utterances
have to be managed in a way that it does not affect
the economy and security of this country"he said.
On how he felt watching Chief Obasanjo destroy his PDP
membership card on the television, Jonathan said the
incident had no effect on him because the attacks had been
consistent.
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