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Jonathan taught African leaders the true meaning of democracy – Raila Odinga


Former Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga on Wednesday described former President Goodluck Jonathan as the renewed hope for democracy in Africa.
Odinga said this at the 2016 Zik lecture series at  the Nnamdi Azikiwe University,Awka, Anambra State.
While speaking on the topic, “The crises of nation states in Africa,” said Jonathan gave credibility to electoral process in Nigeria by conceding defeat in the 2015 election.
He also said the major problems affecting Africa was dictatorship, corruption and ethnicity.
“Before then most African leaders would not concede defeat as an incumbent,” Odinga said. Ethnicity is the disease of the elite. They are the people who would always fan the embers of ethnicity and divisive tendencies whenever they lose their selfish interest,” he added.
May Almighty God bless and guides us to the right path, because majority of our leaders are self-centred, self-serving and misleading machines! Brother Jonathan is being portray as a bad leader but my views is that, he is a leader for a stable country with many patriots who are ready to serve their country accordingly! Human being cannot be perfect so is Jonathan, I categorized him in the mold of "A Philosopher King" but Nigeria is a difficult country to lead(too many "cult leaders" who are hell-bent on sucking Nigeria's resources dry)!  That's my views and may God see us through this adversity in Jesus name! Amen
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