Former Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan explains why, despite internal pressure, he does not intend to run for president again.
This was revealed by the politician in an interview published in the book “My Time As Chaplain In Aso Rock.”
According to Jonathan, running for president of Nigeria will diminish everything he stands for, especially after being booed out of office when he was in office.
The former president also stated that he enjoyed the drama that surrounded the rumor that he purchased the All Progressives Congress nomination form earlier this year.
“I was enjoying the drama. At least they are not insulting me. After all, I was pursued out of the office that I was not good enough. So, if now, Nigerians are saying, ‘Oh, this man should come,’ that means they are cleaning me up. So, let me enjoy the drama.
“I was not disturbed. I know I cannot go and start struggling to be President again. It wasn’t only Nigerians who were asking me such questions, even most of the top ambassadors -the American ambassador, the UK High Commissioner, France, and all of them. They came to ask me whether I would contest. I don’t think I would contest any election.
“If you wake up tomorrow and see that I’m President again, that means there may have been circumstances beyond my control. But not to go and pick one form and go and start lobbying people and running for campaigns, be it PDP power or APC broom and moving across Nigeria. I can’t do that again; if I do that, I will diminish myself,” he stated.