I got GEJ the job, but couldn’t help him do it, says Obj

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has said even though he helped former President Goodluck Jonathan become president, he could not help him do the job.

Obasanjo who spoke while responding to questions after delivering a convocation lecture at the Benson Idahosa University, Benin City, noted that Jonathan alone should bear any discredit from his tenure as president.

He said, “I became the Head of State because of my performance in the war front. If General Gowon had not sent me to the war front, he would not know whether I could perform or not. He sent me to the war front and because I performed, we both shared the credit. But if I had failed, he would not have shared the condemnation with me. I would have taken that alone.

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“I believe that the opportunity that afforded itself in 2010 was for somebody from the minority to on his self esteem become the President of Nigeria. We should never lose such opportunity. What he did with that opportunity is entirely up to him. What he did or did not do with it will reflect for a long time on that part of the country. There is no particular person who got there without the people.”

According to him, the Niger Delta region will suffer for the actions and inactions of the Jonathan administration.

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