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When you combine the fact that human brain have negativity bias(ie it remembers more bad news than good news) and the fact that many Nigerians have short memory then you will understand why the things some people remember about Jonathan are the current lies the current administration tell about him.

It will also help you to understand why someone will wake up and ask this question

So if you're among those that wonders why people celebrate Jonathan then this post is for you.

Here's why.

[b]He gave women in politics more prominent roles.

Nigeria under his tenure got 11 gold , 11 silver and 14 bronze medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, finishing 8thin the overall ranking.

Under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan administration, Nigeria won the African Cup of Nationsfor the first time in 19 years in South Africa in February, 2013.

He introduced favourable economic policies that helped the Internet to penetrate deeply and increased from about 45 million users in 2011 to 63 million in 2014

He made Nigeria the world’s largest producer of cassava with an output of over 45 million metric tonnes in 2014

He reduced food imports by over 40% as at 2013

He transformd the agricultural sector in Nigeria

He cleanly arrested the outbreak of the deadly and highly contagious Ebola Virus Disease. If not for him and his team, people would have been more scarce than tomatoes in Nigeria.

He established nine federal universities across the country in states.

He revived the comatose railway system of transportation in the country

Under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, Nigeria became the first country in West Africa to host the World Economic Forum(WEF) in 2014.

Goodluck Jonathan administration is the one behind the revival of the dead automotive industry

Unlike someone that said Nigerians corrupt except him, Jonathan took us a step closer to being fully integrated into the international e-commerce community with the approval and reinclusion of Nigeria as one of the Paypal-compliant countries after being banned from using the service at the peak of the advanced fee fraud.

He Initiated the YOUWIN program.

He opened up Nigeria to the global business community and becoming Africa’s number one destination of foreign investors.

He liberalized the press and guaranteed freedom of speech

He conducted free, fair and conclusive elections in the country

He promoted and practiced true democracy

He constructed bridges

He constructed, beautified, and dualized many roads.

Nigeria produced first ever 2.9 million metric tons of rice in 2013

Local rice production contributed 320 Billion Naira to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country in 2014.

He constructed dams

He trained and empowered 2,000 women under G-WIN

Nigeria recorded zero case of polio in 2014:

He introduced dry season farming

It was under his tenure that MasterCard made Nigeria its regional headquarters for its West/East and Indian Ocean islands zone raising the profile of Nigeria’s e-commerce industry.

He launched the NigComSat-1Rsatellite which will help expand Internet Bandwidth, monitor the weather and provide early warning to prevent natural disasters.

The Federal Government under his tenure secured investment commitments worth 4.89 Trillion Naira.

Though you didn't benefit from the money shared but at least he increased the life expectancy of Nigerians from 47 to 54.

When Buhari lost in 2011, violence erupted in north with lead to the death of about 800 Nigerians including youth corpers but when Jonathan lost, he took it like a man and we all went back to our businesses.

And Finally.

He still takes all blames for the wrongs and inefficiencies of APC which you can agree with me is the reason people haven't started stoning them.