“How President Jonathan Fell
From Mango Tree & Maltreated By Uncle” –Landlady Tells GEJ Grass To Grace Story

For those who grew up in Oguta, in Imo State a few years before the Civil War, the name “Agu­
duma” would bring back memories. It was the qualification of a young boy, whose friends considered too handsome and therefore, nicknamed him “Aguduma,” meaning “Handsome
Goodluck.”That boy, today, has become a man. He’s not an
ordinary man, but one, who has risen from,perhaps, a nobody to the pinnacle of Nigeria’s leadership. That boy is today the president of Nigeria. That boy is President Goodluck Jonathan.
Yes, President Jonathan once lived in Oguta.While there, before the war, he attended St.Paul’s Anglican Church Primary School. He was nicknamed ‘Aguduma” by his peers in primary school.

Telling Daily Sun the story of Jonathan, as a boyvgrowing up in Oguta, Madam Emilia Ajie, fromvOgbaru area of Anambra State, revealed that the president lived with his uncle, popularly called Chief and his son in their (Madam Emilia) compound at the Kalabari Beach, in Oguta 11.
According to the septuagenarian, Jonathan wasvalways ill-treated by his uncle, who never bought
him school books, sandals or other things he needed for school. She revealed that Jonathan was always the last, among the pupils who lived in the compound, to go to school daily because of house chores he must complete every morning. Madam Emilia further revealed that President Jonathan has always been a quite and respectful person, who,
even in the face of hardship inflicted on him by his uncle, refused to accept unsolicited gifts from people. She revealed that even when his uncle left him behind for home, the young Jonathan engaged himself in menial jobs to survive.

According to her, “Goodluck is a very quite and respectful person, even in the face of hardship
inflicted on him by his uncle,who was popularly called Chief and we always felt sorry for him because of the way his uncle was treating him.They were then living in our boys’ quarters. His
uncle’s son usually did nothing. It was Goodluck,who did everything in the house,including
cooking.”

Madam Emilia recalled that at the end of the civil war, in 1970, President Jonathan’s uncle,who she said had married an Izombe woman, left him and his son, who were yet to finish their primary school education at St. Paul’s Anglican Church Primary School, Kalabari Beach, Oguta 11,behind and promised to come back for them. She stated that the uncle later sent for his son, whilevthe young Jonathan was left behind in Oguta to fend for himself. “When Chief, Goodluck’s uncle,left with his wife, who was from Izombe, for their hometown, he had left behind his son and
Goodluck because they were still in school and had promised to come back for them. But after his son finished his primary school, Chief sent for him and left Goodluck behind,” she said.

She revealed how Jonathan once had an accident that frightened everybody. According to her, “one days, while Goodluck was still living in our compound, he had gone to pluck mango with other young boys, but fell from the tree and as I was returning from the market I heard children shouting that ‘Aguduma’ had fallen off the mango tree and I quickly rushed to scene and used my head-tie to bind his fractured right hand. “My husband’s brother, popularly known as Ajasco,who was returning from the farm, had carried him (Jonathan), with the assistance of other children and took him to a popular traditional bonesetter in the neighbourhood, called Nwanyiogu from Mgidi but
married to Kalabari man. And while he was receiving treatment for his injured hand, we were
always bringing him food because both his uncle and the son had gone back to their hometown.”Madam Emilia pointed out that since Jonathan left Oguta in 1972 she has not set eyes on him again nor heard anything about him. She revealed that she only got to know that Jonathan had become
the president of Nigeria when she saw, in 2011 an Almanac bearing his photograph and had
exclaimed:

“Look at Goodluck!” She stated that as she shouted, the man who was selling the almanac asked what happened. On telling him that she knew Jonathan,she said, the man told her that Goodluck was the president of
Nigeria. Waxing philosophical, she said: “Whatever God has destined for anybody must come to past because nobody will ever have thought that Goodluck will, one day become the president of
Nigeria. I thank God for his life because he really suffered under his uncle and most times I had
asked him then if his parents were alive and he always said yes, but through out his stay in our compound, his parents never visited him.”

Also, talking about his experiences with Jonathan,
Patrick Ajie, Madam Emilia’s son, who is now a staff of the Imo State Fire Service, recalled how the president and his uncle and son lived in their boys’ quarters at Kalabari Beach in Oguta 11.He said that when President Jonathan arrived
Oguta with his uncle, he started at Primary Four, at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church Primary School,
which was established by the Kalabari people in Oguta 11. He revealed that Jonathan finished his Primary Six in the school. Ajie corroborated his mother’s story that even after Jonathan’s uncle invited his son home, to join him and wife,President Jonathan continued to live with them.

On how Jonathan left Oguta, he stated that they did not see him for about two days, at that time,
and therefore made inquiry from some Ijaw, who told them that he had gone to Egbema in search of one of his relatives. According to him, that was the
last they heard of him until they heard about his emergence as president.

“President Goodluck Jonathan had lived with his uncle and his son, who was younger, in my father’s compound at Kalabari
Beach in Oguta. We occupied the main building,while they lived in the ‘Boys Quarters’. It was from
there that he completed his primary school at St.Paul’s Anglican Church Primary School an d he had started at From Four. Of course, he was my senior in the same school. Even his uncle returned to their hometown, with his new wife from Izombe and left behind Goodluck and his son. He had
promised to come for them when they were through with their primary school education. But
later his uncle sent somebody to bring his son back to their home town and left Goodluck behind
with us.” Ajie said Jonathan later left between 1972 and 1973, first to Egbema, in search of one
of relatives and finally to his village.

On whether he had ever met Jonathan, since he became president, Ajie said no, as nobody has allowed him into the presidential villa of the president’s Otuoke home. Said he: “I have tried severally to see him. I had even gone to Bayelsa
and Abuja, but my all efforts have proved abortive.I wanted to see him at least to rekindled old times because we had a very good relationship with him while he and his uncle were living in our compound.”

Asked if he though Jonathan would recognize him in a crowd, as they parted ways as young people,he stated that he was not sure, but added that the president would never forget that he ever lived in the compound of the Ajies in Kalahari Beach, in
Oguta.


Source: http:///bbh5

Credit to Daily Sun

Tell us another story.

No wonder him head no too correct...


He must have smashed it on the floor

OtunbaJega:
No wonder him head no too correct...


He must have smashed it on the floor

Hehehe

I HAD NO SHOES. Part 2.



Aguduma, its time to go back to Otuoke.

Another no shoes gimmick. ..

clubone0502:
Another no shoes gimmick. ..

lol

STORY.
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I wonder why we never get to hear about Buhari's chilhood.

Probably trying to hide something heinous.

This family's time of remembrance has come. Someone's about to smile on them

Just like David! A child of destiny! Anybody that curses you I will curse and anybody that blesses you I will bless! God has blessed Gej.. pls be mindful of how you curse him! I bless you Gej

I had no shoes

I fell from a tree

I broke my hand

Why are you telling us this story few days to election

tobechi20:
Why are you telling us this story few days to election

Does it matter?

u mean a similar story to how he has no shoes and always cover his butts wit cassava leafs while going to school?

tori toriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

Nobody can stop u if God has destined u to be great

Clueless since inception i think