In a heartfelt farewell message, President
Goodluck Jonathan admitted his imperfections,
and asked for the forgiveness of all those
whom his administration has offended.
He delivered the touching speech on Sunday at
a special thanksgiving/farewell service held at
Aso Villa Chapel , The Nation reports.
Here is an excerpt from his speech:
“No system is perfect. Every human system
must have an element of imperfection. For the
period of eight years that we have been here. I
will take the period as a block because my
transition from VP to President was gradual
and complicated. It was intertwined so you
cannot actually draw the line.
Because when the President was challenged
within major health issues, I was running the
country for sometimes even before the doctrine
of necessity made me as acting president. Then
I took over at first and conducting the 2011
election I won and I had to run my full four
years as an elected president.
So for the eight that one has been there,
definitely one is not perfect. We have certainly
done things that probably we wouldn’t have
done that way, but we didn’t do things
deliberately. So for those who we have offended
it was not deliberate, it was circumstances of
the office.
So we also plead that those people should
forgive, we think we have done our best. You
can do your best and your friends may
misunderstand you. Today we are talking about
leaving, it is only God that knows why things
go the way they do.
We came in as Vice President and my wife,
today we are leaving as the former president
and former First Lady. We have achieved it
through you. Let me specifically thank the
chaplain, the clergymen, the pastors and their
wives.
For the past eight years we have every reason
to be thankful to God. Every individual has his/
her own calling. I also believe that people who
take over political leadership have their own
callings to do specific things. No one, head of a
government, be it at the national level or the
sub- regional levels can do every thing.
But when you leave, you will want to do
something to show that yes I was here. The
chaplain has said that nothing is perfect, if you
wait for perfection, you cannot achieve
anything.
Ordinarily 24th of May would haven been the
last Service here. But that 24th, we will all go
to the National Christian Centre for the
inauguration service. So for me and my wife,
this is our last day of worship here.
“Though we are leaving as president and First
Lady, but we have not left you, because we are
still in this country, we will continue to
interact one way or the other, probably along
the line we may even come closer. I believe
some of you may even come closer, and even do
more meaningful things together when we
leave office.
I don’t really believe that it is only in
government that you can do thing, even outside
government you do a lot of things. The richest
people in the world don’t even serve in
government.
Dangote has never been in government, so you
don’t need to be in government to be rich. Bill
Gates has not been in government. So outside
government a lot of things happen, it is for us
to be committed and continue to be focus. Me
and my wife really love all of you.”
Goodluck Jonathan admitted his imperfections,
and asked for the forgiveness of all those
whom his administration has offended.
He delivered the touching speech on Sunday at
a special thanksgiving/farewell service held at
Aso Villa Chapel , The Nation reports.
Here is an excerpt from his speech:
“No system is perfect. Every human system
must have an element of imperfection. For the
period of eight years that we have been here. I
will take the period as a block because my
transition from VP to President was gradual
and complicated. It was intertwined so you
cannot actually draw the line.
Because when the President was challenged
within major health issues, I was running the
country for sometimes even before the doctrine
of necessity made me as acting president. Then
I took over at first and conducting the 2011
election I won and I had to run my full four
years as an elected president.
So for the eight that one has been there,
definitely one is not perfect. We have certainly
done things that probably we wouldn’t have
done that way, but we didn’t do things
deliberately. So for those who we have offended
it was not deliberate, it was circumstances of
the office.
So we also plead that those people should
forgive, we think we have done our best. You
can do your best and your friends may
misunderstand you. Today we are talking about
leaving, it is only God that knows why things
go the way they do.
We came in as Vice President and my wife,
today we are leaving as the former president
and former First Lady. We have achieved it
through you. Let me specifically thank the
chaplain, the clergymen, the pastors and their
wives.
For the past eight years we have every reason
to be thankful to God. Every individual has his/
her own calling. I also believe that people who
take over political leadership have their own
callings to do specific things. No one, head of a
government, be it at the national level or the
sub- regional levels can do every thing.
But when you leave, you will want to do
something to show that yes I was here. The
chaplain has said that nothing is perfect, if you
wait for perfection, you cannot achieve
anything.
Ordinarily 24th of May would haven been the
last Service here. But that 24th, we will all go
to the National Christian Centre for the
inauguration service. So for me and my wife,
this is our last day of worship here.
“Though we are leaving as president and First
Lady, but we have not left you, because we are
still in this country, we will continue to
interact one way or the other, probably along
the line we may even come closer. I believe
some of you may even come closer, and even do
more meaningful things together when we
leave office.
I don’t really believe that it is only in
government that you can do thing, even outside
government you do a lot of things. The richest
people in the world don’t even serve in
government.
Dangote has never been in government, so you
don’t need to be in government to be rich. Bill
Gates has not been in government. So outside
government a lot of things happen, it is for us
to be committed and continue to be focus. Me
and my wife really love all of you.”
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