May 26, 2015 : Kamarudeen Ogundele
President
Goodluck Jonathan did not receive advice from anyone before he conceded
defeat in the March 28 Presidential election, his Special Adviser on
Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, said on Tuesday.
Kuku spoke
at the inauguration of a 500-seater lecture theatre donated by the
Alumni Association of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, and named in
honour of Jonathan.
The
President of the Alumni, Dr. Mathew Ayeni, said the president was a
lover of peace, saying his election was a manifestation of this
assertion.
Urging
other African leaders to emulate him, Ayeni said, “Jonathan is
undoubtedly a hero, not only in Nigeria’s history and by Nigerian
standard but by international standard; this is more reason he is being
credited as a world leader by international communities.”
According to
Kuku, who is an alumnus of EKSU, Jonathan’s phone call to the
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, saved Nigeria from a civil war.
He said,
“That phone call saved Nigeria. Even the President-elect, Muhammadu
Buhari, knew Nigeria was about to be made or marred.
“As results
were still being collated, Mr. President was still busy with the
problems of Nigeria, signing papers and working for the country.
“He saved
this country; so many people predicted that we would have been at war by
now. Even the so called advanced democracies had predicted 2015 as a
year of doom for Nigeria.
“President
Jonathan has scored another first. He did this without any pains,
without any regret. We asked him why he did that without waiting for the
final results to be announced. He said to us, ‘when things would
happen, it must definitely happen. At such time you will need no advice
from people, your adviser must be God Almighty.’ He didn’t have anybody
with him when he made that phone call.”
Kuku described Jonathan as the luckiest president saying he rose from Deputy Governor to become President within 10 years.
He recalled
how former President Olusegun Obasanjo persuaded Jonathan to become Vice
President when he was thinking of seeking reelection as Bayelsa
Governor.
“This man has never fought for anything but God has made them
happened. I’m happy to be part of history of President Goodluck
Jonathan,” he added.Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Mrs. Feyisetan Fayose, commended the Alumni association for the remarkable feat.
She urged the Ekiti State University authorities to strive for higher quality education to place Nigeria in the comity of nations with advanced education.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Patrick Aina, thanked the association for giving back to the university, and specifically, Kuku for recently donating an ultra modern Student Centre and a bus to the Students’ Union.
0 comments:
Post a Comment