Finally a photo of our First Lady since the elections in March. A Thanksgiving & Farewell service was held in honour of President Jonathan & First Lady, Patience Jonathan today May 10th at Church of the Advent, Abuja. Senior special assistant to president Jonathan has aired his thoughts on the farewell service held in honour of president Jonathan and the first lady today and we bring you five things we learnt from his thoughts (including how people wept there)
It was a very emotional service: “It was a lovely event though quite an emotional one too. I saw eminent men and women dabbed their eyes.”
He shed tears at the service too: “I struggled with mine. This is part of the disengaging ceremonies.”
He believes Goodluck Jonathan is Nigeria’s greatest president: “President Jonathan has done well and served his country well. He exits office as a great President. Perhaps Nigeria’s greatest President for all time. Greater than the best before him. He excelled in achievement, in humility, tranquility and simplicity. Nigerians misunderstood meekness for weakness, Restraint for lack of strength, reticence for inaction and calmness for indecisiveness.
But History will judge differently. He will be remembered as a great man, a good man, humble and humane, purposeful and focused. A great African Hero who fought against all manners of evil and conspiracies. Religious, ethnic, national and international, and lost the war. But ultimately triumphed be cause of the inherent goodness that God Almighty deposited in Him. For he said ” My ambition is not worth the life of any Nigerian’ Alas!! He meant what he said and stood by what he said even to his detriment and millions who believed in him.”
He admonished Nigerians not to weep for Jonathan: “Nigerians don’t weep for Jonathan.”
Instead weep and pray for NIGERIA for the following reasons: “Rather weep and pray that our Nation will remain United and stable, that it’s people will prosper and that God will guide our in coming leaders. Right and endow them with the competency of His Wisdom to lead us aright. We bow out with malice to no man and goodwill to all.”
And then a bonus, he says he will always stand by Jonathan “Personally I thank God for another opportunity to serve a second Nigerian President. I have no regrets only joy and peace. I stood for Jonathan. I still stand by him and he will always be my President weather winning whether losing, in victory and in defeat.” See more photos after the cut…
