President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday prayed for
the in-coming administration of General
Muhammadu Buhari. The President has also
admonished Nigerian leaders at various levels of
government to be ready to make sacrifices for the
growth of the nation, stressing that Nigerians
should not allow the challenges of today to weigh
them down.
In the same vein, he challenged Nigerian past
leaders to emulate the sterling qualities of
former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon; and the
former Head of the Interim National Government,
Chief Ernest Shonekan, both of whom he said have
demonstrated unequal patriotism to their
fatherland.
The President spoke at the fifth presidential prayer
breakfast held inside the old Banquet Hall of the
Presidential Villa, Abuja.
We pray for in-coming administration
“We continue to pray for the country and of
course, we pray for the incoming government and
also pray for us who are leaving to have the
opportunity to serve humanity in different phases.
“I remember in 2009 when I visited the Nordic
countries, they told me they were celebrating 200
years of peace that has enabled them to develop.
Nigeria was 49 years as an independent nation in
2009.
“If the Nordic countries, well developed
technologically and otherwise, it means crisis
really retards development.
“So we have challenges, today we are talking about
boko haram in the north, kidnapping in south
south, south east. Atimes you are forced to think
that the nation is ending, definitely this country
will overcome this challenge. That is the reason for
these prayers. Just like prayers helped Nehemiah
to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, our constant
prayers will help us rebuild this nation.
“For me, I have to thank God and Nigerians for the
privilege and opportunity given to me this past 16
years. I served my state as a deputy governor and
governor for eight years. From government house
in Yenegoa and then I came here to the state
house, Abuja served the country as vice president
and a president. That is a reasonable length of
time and so I have to thank God, first because if
God did not will it, it won’t have happened.
Emulate Gowon and Shonekan
According to the President, despite their tight
schedules and their ages, the two former leaders
had always attended programmes in the Villa any
time they are invited.
The support for me within this period, I will
continue to do my best as I’m gradually joining
Gowon and Shonekan to serve our country in
different capacities. “And I must commend Gen.
Gowon and Chief Shonekan and some of our
other leaders, for the eight years I have been as
vice president and president, whenever we called
upon them wherever they are in this world, they
will try to come. I have seen that they are
extremely patriotic and they believe in this
country. If all our leaders show that level of
commitment, that level of patriotism, that believe
and sincerity of purpose to our nation, then surely
we will go where we want to go.
Leaders must be ready to make sacrifices
“I always say leadership is not all about giving
directives, a successful leader must be ready to
make sacrifice. Everything about human life as an
individual, a child, if you don’t make the required
sacrifice you can’t go to where you want to go.
“If you don’t sacrifice your pleasure of course you
will know where you’ll end. As parents we know
the kind of sacrifice we make for our children to go
to school, to feed.
“To build a family you need sacrifice. So for those
who have the privileges of leading at local, state
and national levels, at all times we should be ready
to make sacrifice for our nation to grow.
“So as we call for prayers we also call on our
leaders not just local government chairmen,
governors and president’s alone , I’m also calling
on leaders at other levels, Ministers must make
the required sacrifice, our lawmakers because they
look at all our laws, they can create crisis in
country if they are not ready to do things the right
way.
“So all of us in leadership position must be ready
to make the sacrifice and with our prayers and with
our commitment Nigeria will surely get to where it
wants to go” he said.


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Believe me when I tell you that there's a great difference between a Leader & a Ruler..



GEJ is a LEADER..




May the almighty God bless him in his next phase of life..

Very thoughtful of him

Hes learning fast

God bless my HERO

Even though his Government was so ineffective cos of Lack of implementation by his executioners and catastrophies by his wife...I LOVE OUR PRESIDENT...I ow no apology abt dat..

Since your wife left you(okrika), ure behaving normal and matured.

You are a man of Good heart but you were surrounded with sycophants.

He's been more presidential in the last few weeks than at any time in the last 5 years.

Yeye people, Jonathan this, Jonathan that. Keep wishing yourselves goodluck. Jonathan remains the dumbest, complex, international embarassment and most obvious tribalist president Nigeria ever had. He should quickly go and be forgotten in the remotest part of otuoke

BeeBeeOoh:
Believe when I tell you tha there's a great difference between a Leader & a Ruler..
GEJ is a leader..
May the almighty God bless him in his next phase of life..

Believe me when i say Jonathan is None.




To the topic;
Too much drama in his final days as the president, everyday we seems to have different news from Aso Rock. GEJ should do quick so that we can see what his administration left behind and the extent of damages they have inflicted on Nigeria so that Buhari can plan on how to salvage the country. I can wait to see the incoming administration in action to be honest.

One more point, am sorry to say buy i believe i must chip this in is that, this is the bg difference betwwen Christianity and Islam

Wow, that's commendable!

Well there can be no limit to the amount of damage control you require at this time.

You may be a lovable and calm personality but the fact remained that you disappointed Nigeria so much that we will like to forget about you in a hurry.

Thanks for the prayer and good wishes but I buy none of that.

I just like this man sha. He is a gentleman but too gentle for a 'jungle' called Nigeria

This GEJ keeps on pissing me off.

We will see how long that fool, Buhari, will last on dat seat cos I hate him with passion. He can bewitched other Nigerians but he cant bewitch me

BeeBeeOoh:
Believe me when I tell you that there's a great difference between a Leader & a Ruler..



GEJ is a LEADER..




May the almighty God bless him in his next phase of life..

you've just lowered the bar for assessing good leadership.

ticker:
We will see how long that fool, Buhari, will last on dat seat cos I hate him with passion. He can bewitched other Nigerians but he cant bewitch me

if i ask you why you hate him I'm very sure you wont give an answer thats REASONABLE.

mars123:
if i ask you why you hate him I'm very sure you wont give an answer thats REASONABLE.

I lost my elder brother, the breadwinner of our family, because Buhari lost the 2011 election. So I hav given you the answer so it is left for you to decide whether its reasonable or not

ticker:
I lost my elder brother, the breadwinner of our family, because Buhari lost the 2011 election. So I hav given you the answer so it is left for you to decide whether its reasonable or not

it is...sorry for your loss.