Why I won’t contest to be president of Nigeria again

Former Nigeria president, Goodluck Jonathan, has vowed in no way contest for the Presidency again.

According to him, he could be diminishing himself if he comes to a decision to lobby people and marketing campaign for election again.

Jonathan discovered this in an interview posted in a ebook, ‘My Time As Chaplain In Aso Rock,” offered to the public on Tuesday.

The e-book written through Nathaniel Bivan carries the debts of the Chaplain of the Aso Rock Villa Chapel throughout the Jonathan management, Obioma Onwuzurumba.

“If you wake up the following day and notice that I am President again, which means there may additionally had been situations past my manipulate. But not to move and select one form and move and start lobbying humans and strolling for campaigns; I can’t do that again. If I try this, I will diminish myself,” the former President said.

Jonathan stated he enjoyed the drama that characterised the rumour in advance within the 12 months that he had bought a nomination form of the All Progressives Congress to allow him to contest for the party’s presidential price ticket.

Ahead of the June 2022 APC presidential primary, a group, Nomadic Pastoralists and Almajirai Community, led via Ibrahim Abdullahi, purchased the N100m nomination and expression of interest forms in Jonathan’s name.

I turned into taking part in the drama.

Speaking at the controversy that trailed the institution’s selection, Jonathan stated, “I become taking part in the drama. At least they are no longer insulting me. After all, I turned into pursued out of the office that I became no longer exact enough. So, if now, Nigerians are announcing, ‘Oh, this guy need to come,’ meaning they’re cleaning me up. So, allow me enjoy the drama.

“I became no longer disturbed. I know I can not cross and begin suffering to be President again. It wasn’t only Nigerians who had been asking me such questions, even maximum of the pinnacle ambassadors -the American ambassador, the UK High Commissioner, France, and they all. They came to ask me whether I might contest. I don’t think I would contest any election.

“If you awaken the following day and see that I’m President again, which means there may additionally had been instances past my manipulate. But now not to go and pick out one shape and pass and start lobbying people and jogging for campaigns, be it PDP strength or APC broom and shifting across Nigeria. I can’t do that again; if I do this, I will diminish myself.”

He introduced that the only roles proper to him now involve stabilising democracy in African states.

He added, “Assuming there’s some confusion, and every now and then such things as that occur in international locations. So, they tell me to return and play a position in stabilising things; a stable democracy wherein one leader palms over to any other is what we all need.

“Let us undergo that technique and now not interrupt the democratic procedures. We pray such matters must not take place. Otherwise, to go and say I’m contesting on the platform of any celebration in any respect. No!”