I never agreed to rule for one term – Ex President says

chika ebuzor

April 29, 2017 12:34 PM

Former President Goodluck Jonathan also accused the Barack Obama administration of working to get him out of power.

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied agreeing to rule Nigeria for one term only.

According to Daily Post, GEJ said this in a book by Segun Adeniyi, ThisDay Board of Editors Chairman, titled: Against the Run of play: How an incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria.

In the book the ex-President reportedly said “You can make a political promise and change your mind, so long as it is within the law.

“I had made a proposition for a single term of seven years.

“That was the context in which I spoke in Addis Ababa that if the idea was accepted, I would not run again.

“It was not in the context of a second term of four years.

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“Of course, at that period, the issue of one term was brought several times at different meetings and some people took it upon themselves to pledge on my behalf but I never said I was going to spend only one term… the question was always usually randomly asked and I never made any such commitment to anybody.”

chika ebuzor