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Ghanaian President, John Mahama, Nigeria’s ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, and many other African statesmen are expected to attend the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation 2025 Democracy Dialogue scheduled to hold in Accra, Ghana, on September 17.

The Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Ikechukwu Eze, in a statement on Tuesday, said the dialogue would also attract global development experts.

According to Eze, distinguished leaders also expected at the event are former president Jonathan, and the former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso and former President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States, Kadré Ouédraogo.

Others are the current President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, as well as the Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese.

Eze said that this year’s dialogue with the theme, ‘Why Democracies Die’, would be co-hosted by the Foundation in collaboration with the Government of Ghana.

He said that the dialogue would give participants the opportunity to beam their searchlights on the progress, challenges and prospects of decades of democratic rule in the sub-region.


The event, according to Eze, will be chaired by Obasanjo while Kukah will serve as the keynote speaker.

The 2025 dialogue is the fourth in the series since 2021, when the foundation launched the annual discourse as a way of constantly interrogating democratic governance in the sub-region as a means of gauging its sustainability and impact on the lives of the people.

He recalled that the 2024 dialogue, which focused on purposeful education, featured Prof. Olubayi Olubayi, a seasoned educationist and Chief Academic Officer at Maarifa Education in Kenya and former Vice Chancellor of the International University of East Africa in Uganda.

Eze also recalled that Olubayi, in his keynote speech, made a strong case for African countries to establish highly selective merit-based institutions and elite research-intensive universities to serve as the anchors of functional education and drivers of technological growth.

“It is expected that the keynote speaker, Bishop Kukah, panellists and other resource persons at the 2025 dialogue would throw more light on what needs to be done to arrest the pattern of decline and gradual erosion of rules and norms which democracies have continued to experience in the Africa,” Eze said.

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festacman:
Nigeria is a funny place with leadership at lowest point.

Otherwise how can anyone justify the fact that Goodluck Jonathan is being BEGGED to run for President again.

Interestingly, GEJ in the last 10 years he is out of office has never shown any indication that he has taken his time to develop better SOLUTIONS to various problems of Nigeria.

Why do Nigeria fall into the hands of unprepared persons as President. In 1979, Maitama Sule was prepared but Shehu Shagari was chosen. Obasanjo wanted to go home to his wife after his prison time but was recruited to be President. Umaru Yar'adua wanted to retire to take care of his failing health but was recruited by Obasanjo as successor. Jonathan was a naive Deputy Governor who became naive harmless VP but has to become president following Yar'adua's death. Buhari came empty-headed but was hoping that his integrity will do the magic. Well, it didn't. Then Tinubu came visionless hoping that taxing people will do the magic. Well, the situation has become worse.

And now Goodluck Jonathan is now being begged to ... when better alternatives exist.

So sad.

Vinnie2000:
Why didn't Jonathan invite Tinibu?

I thought they were Friends.

Perhaps he does not want to Have a man present, with CRIMINAL records,
In a such a meeting for Intellectual discourse.

PulaPower:
When it’s time for them to eat, who will serve them?

They should invite this man, below..

PulaPower:
When it’s time for them to eat, who will serve them?

They should invite this man, below..

festacman:
Nigeria is a funny place with leadership bar at lowest point. Otherwise how can anyone justify the fact that Goodluck Jonathan is being BEGGED to run for President again.

Interestingly, GEJ in the last 10 years, he is out of office, has never shown any indication that he has taken his time to develop better SOLUTIONS to various problems of Nigeria.

Why do Nigeria fall into the hands of unprepared persons as President. In 1979, Maitama Sule was prepared but Shehu Shagari was chosen. Obasanjo wanted to go home to his wife after his prison time but was recruited to be President. Umaru Yar'adua wanted to retire to take care of his failing health but was recruited by Obasanjo as successor. Jonathan was a naive Deputy Governor who became naive harmless VP but has to become president following Yar'adua's death. Buhari came empty-headed but was hoping that his integrity will do the magic. Well, it didn't. Then Tinubu came visionless hoping that taxing people will do the magic. Well, the situation has become worse.

And now Goodluck Jonathan is now being begged to ... when better alternatives exist.

So sad.

iwaeda:
Life under GEJ, far far better that APC scammers, yet many of them could easily fund university education abroad without recoiling to loans. Life was average, but now the builder of Lagos has thrown everyone underboard.

Mrfixitt:
It shows the level decay in Nigeria at the moment. Buhari and Tinubu have ruined everything left behind by Gej

carzeem1:
At least he had an effective team that attracted FDI, boosted our GDP and improved our agricultural output.
Nigeria of Jonathan era with cheap fuel, cheap food, cheap Forex, cheap accomodation, comparative salary and service delivery makes this present economic state unreal and shocking for most people albeit it was inevitable with the poor management of Buhari.

Nigerians just want the good old days where they can earn a decent salary and breath well and not be suffocated with all the government imposed ill-timed, elitists and bad policies.

festacman:
Nigeria is a funny place with leadership bar at lowest point. Otherwise how can anyone justify the fact that Goodluck Jonathan is being BEGGED to run for President again.

Interestingly, GEJ in the last 10 years, he is out of office, has never shown any indication that he has taken his time to develop better SOLUTIONS to various problems of Nigeria.

Why do Nigeria fall into the hands of unprepared persons as President. In 1979, Maitama Sule was prepared but Shehu Shagari was chosen. Obasanjo wanted to go home to his wife after his prison time but was recruited to be President. Umaru Yar'adua wanted to retire to take care of his failing health but was recruited by Obasanjo as successor. Jonathan was a naive Deputy Governor who became naive harmless VP but has to become president following Yar'adua's death. Buhari came empty-headed but was hoping that his integrity will do the magic. Well, it didn't. Then Tinubu came visionless hoping that taxing people will do the magic. Well, the situation has become worse.

And now Goodluck Jonathan is now being begged to ... when better alternatives exist.

So sad.

festacman:
Nigeria is a funny place with leadership bar at lowest point. Otherwise how can anyone justify the fact that Goodluck Jonathan is being BEGGED to run for President again.

Interestingly, GEJ in the last 10 years, he is out of office, has never shown any indication that he has taken his time to develop better SOLUTIONS to various problems of Nigeria.

Why do Nigeria fall into the hands of unprepared persons as President. In 1979, Maitama Sule was prepared but Shehu Shagari was chosen. Obasanjo wanted to go home to his wife after his prison time but was recruited to be President. Umaru Yar'adua wanted to retire to take care of his failing health but was recruited by Obasanjo as successor. Jonathan was a naive Deputy Governor who became naive harmless VP but has to become president following Yar'adua's death. Buhari came empty-headed but was hoping that his integrity will do the magic. Well, it didn't. Then Tinubu came visionless hoping that taxing people will do the magic. Well, the situation has become worse.

And now Goodluck Jonathan is now being begged to ... when better alternatives exist.

So sad.

simpleseyi:
Let him include Donald Trump, we the BAT team will humiliate them all

PulaPower:
When it’s time for them to eat, who will serve them?

They should invite this man, below..

festacman:
Nigeria is a funny place with leadership bar at lowest point. Otherwise how can anyone justify the fact that Goodluck Jonathan is being BEGGED to run for President again.

Interestingly, GEJ in the last 10 years, he is out of office, has never shown any indication that he has taken his time to develop better SOLUTIONS to various problems of Nigeria. No evidence that he now has the requisite vision and roadmap for a prosperous Nigeria.

Why do Nigeria fall into the hands of unprepared persons as President. In 1979, Maitama Sule was prepared but Shehu Shagari was chosen. Obasanjo wanted to go home to his wife after his prison time but was recruited to be President. Umaru Yar'adua wanted to retire to take care of his failing health but was recruited by Obasanjo as successor. Jonathan was a naive Deputy Governor who became naive harmless VP but has to become president following Yar'adua's death. Buhari came empty-headed but was hoping that his integrity will do the magic. Well, it didn't. Then Tinubu came visionless hoping that taxing people will do the magic. Well, the situation has become worse.

And now Goodluck Jonathan is now being begged to ... when better alternatives exist.

So sad.

chidiokay:
You want to see humiliate go to any public market nd campaign Tinubu is working,m