My ministers and I’ll face persecution – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has given an
insight into the fate that awaits him and his ministers after May 29,
saying he believes they will be persecuted.
He stated on Sunday during a
thanksgiving and farewell service organised in his honour at the
Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp, Gwarinpa, Abuja that the
persecution would happen because of the “ hard decisions” his
administration took while in office.
Jonathan told the congregation that he
understood clearly that “ hard decisions” had their own cost and was
therefore ready to pay any price for them
He
said that experience had shown him that people would at a time desert
anybody who took “hard decisions” like he did while in office.
Jonathan added that he had always believed that more of his friends would desert him after May 29.
The President recalled the story of the
last ruler of apartheid South Africa, Frederik de Klerk, who was
divorced by his wife for accepting to abolish minority rule in the
country, and said jokingly that he hoped his wife, Patience, would not
also divorce him after the end of his tenure on May 29.
Beaming with smiles, Mrs. Jonathan, who
on March 16 declared that she was not ready to feed her husband in
prison, replied with a shout of “Nooooo.”
Her response was greeted with a loud applause by congregation members.
The President said, “I believe there
are reasons for everything. Some hard decisions have their own cost; and
there is no doubt about that.
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