Reno Omokri has eulogized former President Goodluck
Jonathan.
He said the ex-Governor of Bayelsa State did not pardon Boko
Haram terrorists, a veil reference to the Buhari administration’s reintegration
of repentant insurgents.
Omokri was Jonathan’s Special Assistant on New Media.
On Thursday, he paid tribute to the former Nigerian leader
on his 63 years birthday.
The author described Jonathan as the best President in the
history of the country.
“He identified the single biggest problem in Nigeria,
illiteracy, and addressed it by building 165 Almajiri schools, and 14 new
universities – 13 built from the scratch and one, the Police College, Wudil,
Kano, upgraded to a full university,” Omokri said.
Omokri noted that Jonathan was detribalised and did not
focus on development in his home state or the South-South region.
He added that, “Some people mock him for this. But that is a
father’s heart. I remember once when we were at London’s Heathrow, and the
Nigerian High Commission sent a car to pick President Jonathan up.
“I was waiting to pick a taxi to join him at his
destination, when he said ‘don’t be silly’, and shifted from what we call the
owner’s corner in Nigeria, for me to sit, he sat on the other side. Which other
Nigerian leader can be that humble?”
Omokri insisted that Jonathan built the nation’s single
largest infrastructure project – the 187km Abuja-Kaduna railway.
The government critic said humility is often regarded as
gutless and that citizens can now see that what they called weakness was
strength under control.
“Herdsmen were afraid under Jonathan. Bandits were unknown.
Yes, we had Boko Haram, but they knew they would be devastated when caught,
rather than being rehabilitated,” he said.
Noting that it was under his ex-principal that Nigeria
recorded the highest increase in life expectancy, Omokri expressed delight that
Jonathan has been on peace missions across Africa.
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Yes we recorded highest life expectancy on record only to be replaced unfortunately by a government that mows down its citizenry. Agovernment that pays people for being terrorists.
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