President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said despite the security
challenges in parts of the country, his first name had brought some
good luck to Nigeria.
Jonathan said this while granting an interview to a 10-year-old
Nigerian girl based in California, Miss Zuriel Oduwole, on the
sideline of the ongoing 21st ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads
of State and Government of the Africa Union holding in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
Oduwole who was said to have earlier interviewed some other African
leaders is working on a documentary on the union's 50 years of
existence.
She had sought to know from Jonathan how much good luck his first name
had brought to the country under his leadership.
Jonathan said religion and traditional societies attached some values to names.
This, he said, was why parents select good names for their children.
He said, "Traditional societies attach some values to names. That is
why people select good names for their children.
"In the scriptures sometimes, when God sends you on some special
assignment, He could even direct, 'change the name of this child from
this to that.'
"But the name in itself does not make much difference because even
from my village, there is one of my peers that also answers Goodluck.
Another one that is a little older than me answers Lucky from my small
village and I didn't see the good luck and lucky in them.
"In terms of bringing my name to bear in Nigerian affairs, within this
period, we have our challenges. Of course, you are aware that we have
our security challenges. But in spite of the security challenges, the
country is moving on. I will say yes, it brought some good luck to the
country."
On the legacy he would want to leave behind at the expiration of his
tenure, Jonathan said he would like to be remembered for sanitising
the nation's electoral system as well as fixing the power poor and
security challenges.
"If we can stabilise the electoral process, sanitise the political
environment, then we make sure that we have power in this country and
of course, security, every other things will take off on its own," the
President said.
Jonathan said he would also like the sanitation going on in the
electoral system to be internalised in all sectors of the country.
He said, "People should be allowed to decide who governs them, who
represents them at the parliament, who runs their affair at the local
government level; the country never had that opportunity and the elite
were no longer interested even in voting.
"Democracy was almost left floating in the hands of people who
ordinarily have no place there. So, we are sanitising the electoral
process. Now, Nigerians can select who they want to be their
President, who they want to be their governor, who they want to be
their senator, who they want to be their House of Representatives
member or even their state House of Assembly member or even chairman
of their council.
"We are doing that and I want that to be internalised in all the ways
we do things. I want people to remember me for that."
Jonathan also talked of his desire to put the nation on a better stead
in the area of Information Technology.
He said with technological development, power could be stabilised and
then, micro, small and medium scale enterprises would be encouraged.
These, he added, are the areas that create jobs for the people,
improve the economy and reduce poverty to the barest minimum.
Also, the President said for African countries to come out of the
woods and take their rightful positions among the comity of nations,
their leaders must deepen democracy by avoiding abuse of power and
impunity.
Source:- http://www.punchng.com/news/my-name-has-brought-good-luck-to-nigeria-jonathan/
Remark:
I think Mr president is only trying to be funny, shouldn't be taken serious.
I'm very sure this president forced nigerians into believing that
there is a different meaning to 'goodluck' than what it means
literally.
This buffer(gej) shld keep shut cos his name has brought balagan ,
pandemonium, cluelessness excrescence, cataclysmic policies, homogous
party style to this country. Weakness is his idiosyncracy,
tough-talking is his consangnuity and he's simplectic in relationship
with people who wld stop at nothin to destroy this country in the name
of showing support to him and pdp .
How more 'goodluck' can he be to Nigeria....
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