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Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by greghamite(op): 11:01am On May 11, 2015
By FEMI SALAWU





Emotions rose high as eminent personalities broke down in tears at a farewell and thanksgiving service organized for President Goodluck Jonathan at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp, Gwarinpa, Abuja.

First Lady, Patience Jonathan and other eminent personalities fought back hot tears during an emotional speech by President Goodluck Jonathan.



During his speech, President Jonathan said that experience had shown him that people would at a time desert anybody who took “hard decisions” like he did while in office.



Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Political Affairs, Doyin Okupe noted, “It was a lovely event though quite an emotional one too. I saw eminent men and women dabbed their eyes. I struggled with mine.”



The President recalled the story of the last ruler of apartheid South Africa, Frederik de Klerk noting how he was divorced by his wife for accepting to abolish minority rule in the country.



He looked at the first lady and asked jokingly if his wife, Patience, would not also divorce him after the end of his tenure on May 29.



Wasting no time, Mrs Jonathan enthusiastically responded with a resounding shout of “Nooooo.”



Okupe counseled, “Nigerians don’t weep for Jonathan. Rather weep and pray that our Nation will remain United and stable, that it’s people will prosper and that God will guide our in coming leaders right and endow them with the competency of His Wisdom to lead us aright.



“We bow out with malice to no man and goodwill to all. Personally I thank God for another opportunity to serve a second Nigerian President. I have no regrets only joy and peace.



“I stood for Jonathan. I still stand by him and he will always be my President weather winning whether losing, in victory and in defeat.”

Link In...>>>http://expressng.com/2015/05/patience-jonathan-ministers-others-weep-at-farewell-thanksgiving-service/

Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by iykeaniogbe(m): 11:04am On May 11, 2015
Bros I watch life dem no weep. Were d pix..
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by obi4eze(m): 11:08am On May 11, 2015
grin
Na laugh me dey laugh o
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by amnesty7: 11:09am On May 11, 2015
iykeaniogbe:
Bros I watch life dem no weep. Were d pix..
A lesson for all of us: Life, like power, is temporary.
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by amnesty7: 11:10am On May 11, 2015
A lesson for all of us: Life, like power, is temporary.
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by Young03(m): 11:16am On May 11, 2015
I no c tears oo
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by PassingShot(m): 11:18am On May 11, 2015
If they did, it was only for the realization that the cake is no longer at their disposal to slice and eat as they like.
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by iykeaniogbe(m): 11:18am On May 11, 2015
amnesty7:
A lesson for all of us: Life, like power, is temporary.
correct true talk.
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by vecman22(m): 11:40am On May 11, 2015
Nooooo.....


There is God oooo..



Queen Elizabeth alone can tutor dis woman....
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by Nobody: 11:52am On May 11, 2015
PEJ can cry me River Niger + River Benue combined if she likes but I'm not moved; afterall, in her height of power intoxication, she called my GMB brain-dead.
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by Elueme: 12:48pm On May 11, 2015
Zoharariel:
PEJ can cry me River Niger + River Benue combined if she likes but I'm not moved; afterall, in her height of power intoxication, she called my GMB brain-dead.
Are you sure your GMB is truly not brain dead? Who in his right lively sense(brain) will contradict what he religiously preached as a campaign manifesto in an attempt to hoodwink gullible minds llike you just in about a month after his victory? I think a more daring adjective fits that Dauradullard. Brain dead is rather mind
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by abduljabbar4(m): 1:21pm On May 11, 2015
Pdp will rule for over 60 years gringrin
Re: Patience Jonathan, Ministers, Others Weep At Farewell Thanksgiving Service by abduljabbar4(m): 1:25pm On May 11, 2015
iykeaniogbe:
Bros I watch life dem no weep. Were d pix..
If you'd read carefully you would have seen the place where they wrote 'weather' instead of 'whether' I don't believe it
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