Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has
revealed reason he is still in pain and traumatised over the Christmas eve
attack by gunmen on his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State.
The former president said he was still in pain for the fact
that a soldier was killed in the attack.
Jonathan, who spoke in his office in Abuja on Wednesday when
he hosted members of the executive of the National Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS) on a solidarity visit over the 24th December, 2019, attack
said: “I thank you for coming to sympathise with me and my family. The fact
that a soldier lost his life in that attack traumatizes me. That young man
wouldn’t have died, the way he did, if he was not protecting me.
“Whenever people come to me, just as you people have come,
to talk about that attack, I feel worried about the general society. Whenever I
consider that people could do that to a former President who has reasonable
security guarding him, my mind reaches out to the rest of Nigerians who do not
have that level of protection. I am worried that so many people are becoming
victims of sporadic shootings, kidnappings and so on. I believe that the
country will get over the kind of insecurity it currently faces.”
Jonathan highlighted the importance of education and urged
the students to be serious with their studies, adding that it is only when
people are educated that the country would be able to manage governance and
development issues better.
“For you young people, I urge you to believe in yourselves
and believe in your country. Surely we will get to our destination, ” he
further said.
Speaking earlier, NANS President Danielson Akpan said that
the leadership of the umbrella student body had come to sympathise with the
former President over the attack in his house and to thank him for his legacies
in the education sector. Akpan told the former President that many students
that enrolled in the 12 new federal universities he established had
successfully graduated.
“The student that enrolled when you created those
universities are now graduates. Some are gainfully employed; some are already
employers of labour while some that have left the shores of our country are
doing excellently well abroad.
“Your Excellency, Nigerians believe in you and what you
stand for that elections should be freely conducted as you did in 2015. That
particular call you placed to your successor on 31st of March 2015 is a notable
achievement for which history will continue to hold you very dearly till
eternity.”
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