President Goodluck Jonathan’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe has disclosed why the president is seeking to come back for a second term.
Speaking at an annual public lecture and award ceremony organised by the Pilot Newspapers in Abuja on Tuesday, he said, Jonathan is seeking to come back for a second term because he is a good Christian and a responsible man who is running for presidency on the basis of principle.
Quoting a scripture from the Bible, Okupe said: “The Bible says no man having put his hand on the plough and turneth back is fit for the kingdom of God and that is why we are running.”
According to him, the greatest problem Nigeria will face after 2015 elections will be acceptance of defeat by whoever loses, Punch reports.
He added that Jonathan was not desperate to return to power in 2015.
“I want to tell you for free, President Jonathan is not desperate even till this morning. I had breakfast with him and he is not desperate for power,” he said.
Okupe who was reacting to statements made by opposition politicians against the present government, said all indications point to the fact that Jonathan will win the forthcoming 2015 presidential elections, Punch reports.
He said: “On the coming elections itself, people are saying that we will form parallel government for an election you have not lost. We will form parallel government, parallel to what? In civilised societies, people like that whichever political tendency they represent should totally be wiped off from peoples memories as politicians because they don’t mean well for the country.
“Yesterday on twitter, another politician said that President Goodluck Jonathan is planning a war so that the election can be postponed; it is quite idiotic. This is a president that has been in office for four years and has made some substantial performance unarguably. So every indication points to the likelihood of his winning. Why will he now want to stop the election that his opponent has no record of winning anything?”
According to the SSA, Nigerian politicians’ struggle for power was based on selfish interests and that is why the country is not making any progress.
Recently, the presidency had blasted the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, for saying President Goodluck Jonathan’s tolerance for corruption is partially responsible for insecurity in the country.
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