President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he would pack out
of the Presidential Villa on Friday, the day his successor Muhammadu Buhari
will be inaugurated. Jonathan spoke at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja
while receiving members of the Universal Peace Foundation who conferred on him
the Peace-Loving Global Citizen award.
The president said both Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo
and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which provided the platform for his
election four years ago should share in the encomium showered on him.
“My singular act has made you now to come and honour us. Not
just me, I ran the election with the vice president and if we had won, two of
us would have been here; but by that act, two of us are packing out on Friday.
“Everybody knew about the predictions (that Nigeria will
cease to exist by 2015). Anything could have made those predictions become
true. After all, we fought a civil war for about three years before as a
nation.
He said: “I cannot be a party to the disintegration of the
country. I am quite pleased with what has happened. We have a country; the
country will be more united.
He said even if he would be president for 25 years, he would
not be happy to see Nigerians killed because of his ambition.
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