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Goodluck Jonathan Quotes

born 1957

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari, and was the first incumbent president in Nigerian history to concede defeat in an election.

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In Nigerian Politics, you find it difficult to see somebody who will say the same thing in the morning and in the evening.

We are not sworn enemies… We are neighbours who sometimes offend each other, but can always sit down to talk over our differences.

Most Nigerian politicians, you cannot take their words to the bank.

Transformation in my view simply means taking what you have and making the best of it and in so doing produce results that can bring about a paradigm shift.

Cynicism and scepticism will not help our journey to greatness. Let us all believe in a new Nigeria.

I congratulate the candidates of the other political parties. I regard them not as opponents but as partners.

I have no intention to inflict pain on Nigerians. To save Nigeria, we must all be prepared to make sacrifices.

We have a duty to stand firm against those who threaten the sovereign integrity of the Nigerian state. Our will is strong, because our faith lies in the indivisibility of Nigeria.

Any society or country that closes the vital valves of its democratic space cannot develop at a reasonable pace

I was not born rich and in my youth, I never imagined that I would be where I am today, but not once did I ever give up.

Nobody should rig for me. I am assuring Nigerians that though I am contesting, nobody must manipulate votes in my favour. Our votes must count.

If God did not will it we will not be Nigerians.

Nigerians are peace-loving people; these sad events perpetrated by those who do not wish our nation well have not changed the essential character of our people.

I believe that with what we left behind and with what the new government will also acquire we will be able to [bring] this war on terror to a reasonable conclusion.

I am loyal to Nigeria’s economy. I don’t have accounts or property abroad. All my children live and school in Nigeria.

We have a duty to be loyal to our country.

In presenting myself for service, I make no pretense that I have a magic wand that will solve all of Nigeria’s problems or that I am the most intelligent Nigerian.

I like to ask people: was it that there was 24-hour electricity and Jonathan came and switched it off and damaged the equipment? The answer is no. Power is an age-old problem in Nigeria and we have to understand that.

But if there is anybody that we can give credit to who has stabilised democracy in Nigeria today, it is General Abdulsalami Abubakar

While we may not have landed a spaceship on the moon or developed nuclear technology, our inventors and innovators have made globally acknowledged contributions

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Goodluck Jonathan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.