Jonathan’s Performance below Average – Obasanjo

Jonathan’s Performance below Average – Obasanjo

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Nigeria's Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the performance of President Goodluck Jonathan as below average.


Obasanjo gave this assessment during an encounter with book writers in Abeokuta, Ogun State, as part of activities marking the popular Ake Festival.


When enquired to rate Jonathan’s administration, he said, “His performance is below average. I will not accept responsibility for his performance. There is nobody that gets such a position without being helped.”


The former President also denied the insinuations that Jonathan was selected as the running mate to the late President Musa Yar’Adua because of the latter's ill health.


“Yar’Adua told me he was well. He showed me his medical report and I even consulted experts,” he said.


He said he had only supported the idea of a South-Southerner succeeding Yar’Adua to extend the sense of belonging that the emergence of a Southern President in 1999 represented.


When asked why he preferred Jonathan to the former governor of Cross Rivers State, Donald Duke, he said, “In my own life, I don’t put all my eggs in one basket. Duke was young enough to be in the reserve.