Goodluck Jonathan Vows To Expose Former Nigerian Leaders

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to expose the failings of Nigeria’s former presidents which he claimed has stunted the country’s growth and development, Vanguard reports. 

Jonathan and Babangida

Jonathan was speaking at the inauguration of the Goodluck/Sambo 2015 Presidential Campaign Organisation, PCO, at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign office, Legacy House, Maitama, Abuja.

Jonathan and Obasanjo

He promised to reveal to Nigerians what his government has done in the last couple of years that former Nigerian leaders could not achieve.

Jonathan and Buhari

The president enjoined Nigerians to vote for him in next month’s presidential polls for a second term as a result of his achievements in the last six years.

Jonathand and his former boss, Late Yar’adua

Former Military President,  General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd)  recently described himself as a ‘saint’ given the level of corruption that pervades the Nigerian society today.

Jonathan with former presidents: L-R: Gen. Abudusalami Abubakar (rtd), Chief Ernest Shonekan and Alhaji Shehu Shagari

Also, former military and civilian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, took a swipe at President Jonathan, accusing him of squandering the$55 billion crude oil savings left behind by his administration and that of late president Umaru Musa Yar’adua.

The president said:  “When we start campaigns, we will confront them with what we have done as a government, we will tell them what they did not do when they were heads of state. Some people want to still keep these children as shoe cleaners, we must lift them up. Our children should not be used as cannon folders. They should be allowed to move forward to be governors like us”.

Gen .Yakubu Gowon (rtd) and Jonathan

It will be recalled that the inauguration of President Jonathan’s campaign committee earlier scheduled was suspended till Tuesday following the death of the president’s younger sister, Mrs Nancy Jonathan-Olei.