₦airaland Forum

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has shared his insights on the experience of losing the 2015 presidential election.

Running under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Jonathan was defeated by Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who received 15,424,921 votes compared to his 12,853,162 votes.

The election was significant as it marked the first instance in Nigeria’s history where an incumbent president lost a re-election bid.

Speaking on Friday at the inaugural Raymond Dokpesi Annual Diamond Lecture, Jonathan described it as one of the most challenging moments of his political career.

He revealed that upon hearing the election results, he felt a wave of emotion, as though the entire world had turned against him.

The former president also acknowledged the supportive role played by late Raymond Dokpesi, the then Chairman of Daar Communications, prior to his transition of power to Buhari.

He said, “It is not easy to lose an election as a president. You will think the whole world is against you. But then, Dokpesi invited me before I handed over. I remember what he said to me when I lost the election.

“There were so many senior Nigerians (elder statesmen) who spoke. After I listened to all the conversations, he congratulated me and encouraged me to look beyond the election. This is how I commemorated that session.

“That communication gave me hope and helped me not necessarily for the transition hour ahead of me but also in my spiritual life as a private citizen. If you read my book, My Transition Hours, I explain it more elaborately.”

aariwa:
Jonathan go and sit down . Jonathan was a big coward behaving like a girl . If he had the heart of his wife nobody would have taken power from him. Ironically everything he was in life was through his wife starting from introducing him to Diette Spiff who in turn introduced him to Alamiesigha but the drunk fool abandoned the wife who made him who he was and started following diezani , person wife for that matter …smh..the fool deserve what he got

aariwa:
Jonathan go and sit down . Jonathan was a big coward behaving like a girl . If he had the heart of his wife nobody would have taken power from him. Ironically everything he was in life was through his wife starting from introducing him to Diette Spiff who in turn introduced him to Alamiesigha but the drunk fool abandoned the wife who made him who he was and started following diezani , person wife for that matter …smh..the fool deserve what he got

aariwa:
Jonathan go and sit down . Jonathan was a big coward behaving like a girl . If he had the heart of his wife nobody would have taken power from him. Ironically everything he was in life was through his wife starting from introducing him to Diette Spiff who in turn introduced him to Alamiesigha but the drunk fool abandoned the wife who made him who he was and started following diezani , person wife for that matter …smh..the fool deserve what he got

smokinloud:
GEJ was a worse President

aariwa:
Jonathan go and sit down . Jonathan was a big coward behaving like a girl . If he had the heart of his wife nobody would have taken power from him. Ironically everything he was in life was through his wife starting from introducing him to Diette Spiff who in turn introduced him to Alamiesigha but the drunk fool abandoned the wife who made him who he was and started following diezani , person wife for that matter …smh..the fool deserve what he got