My name has brought good luck to
Nigeria -- Jonathan
2013-05-25 23:00:06
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said
despite the security challenges in parts of the
country, his first name had brought some good
luck to Nigeria.
Jonathan said this while granting an interview to
a 10-year-old Nigerian girl based in California,
Miss Zuriel Oduwole, on the sideline of the
ongoing 21st ordinary session of the Assembly of
Heads of State and Government of the Africa
Union holding in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Oduwole who was said to have earlier
interviewed some other African leaders is
working on a documentary on the union's 50
years of existence.
She had sought to know from Jonathan how much
good luck his first name had brought to the
country under his leadership.
Jonathan said religion and traditional societies
attached some values to names.
This, he said, was why parents select good names
for their children.
He said, "Traditional societies attach some
values to names. That is why people select
good names for their children.
"In the scriptures sometimes, when God sends
you on some special assignment, He could even
direct, 'change the name of this child from this to
that.'
"But the name in itself does not make much
difference because even from my village, there is
one of my peers that also answers Goodluck.
Another one that is a little older than me
answers Lucky from my small village and I
didn't see the good luck and lucky in them.
"In terms of bringing my name to bear in Nigerian
affairs, within this period, we have our
challenges. Of course, you are aware that we
have our security challenges. But in spite of the
security challenges, the country is moving on. I
will say yes, it brought some good luck to the
country."
On the legacy he would want to leave behind at
the expiration of his tenure, Jonathan said he
would like to be remembered for sanitising the
nation's electoral system as well as fixing the
power poor and security challenges.
"If we can stabilise the electoral process,
sanitise the political environment, then we make
sure that we have power in this country and of
course, security, every other things will take off
on its own," the President said.
Jonathan said he would also like the sanitation
going on in the electoral system to be
internalised in all sectors of the country.
He said, "People should be allowed to decide
who governs them, who represents them at the
parliament, who runs their affair at the local
government level; the country never had that
opportunity and the elite were no longer
interested even in voting.
"Democracy was almost left floating in the
hands of people who ordinarily have no place
there. So, we are sanitising the electoral
process. Now, Nigerians can select who they
want to be their President, who they want to be
their governor, who they want to be their
senator, who they want to be their House of
Representatives member or even their state
House of Assembly member or even chairman of
their council.
"We are doing that and I want that to be
internalised in all the ways we do things. I want
people to remember me for that."
Jonathan also talked of his desire to put the
nation on a better stead in the area of Information
Technology.
He said with technological development,
power could be stabilised and then, micro,
small and medium scale enterprises would be
encouraged.
These, he added, are the areas that create jobs for
the people, improve the economy and reduce
poverty to the barest minimum.
Also, the President said for African countries to
come out of the woods and take their rightful
positions among the comity of nations, their
leaders must deepen democracy by avoiding
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i can only lmao.

This man is really jonzing.

It hasnt brought goodluck,, sir but is bringing goodluck to nigeria in a little way

Mr president! We love you!!!. Your name has brought so many good things to us.keep it up and supply JTF with more ngwaa agha. Boko must varnish. Goodluck 2015! Goodluck Nigeria

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I believe the title is obviously mischievous..he was asked whether he thinks he had brought goodluck to d country..applying his name nd he responded affirmatively while also admitting d challenges being faced and enumerating progress being made, did u expect him to say he has brought badluck to the country...blind criticism destroys, hate has blocked so many's sense of reasoning

What is good in Goodluck?