Half Of Nigerian Politicians Are Misfits, Jobless Individuals – Jonathan
Category: Nigerian National News
Nigerian politicians got more than they bargained for yesterday as
President Goodluck Jonathan described half of them as misfits, who are
not supposed to be in politics but for lack of jobs to do.
According to him, some of the politicians lack a forgiving spirit,
though they have no choice than to learn to forgive as they may find
themselves having to work with those who wronged them in the past.
Jonathan, who made this comment during the first church service of the Aso Rock Villa Chapel and post-national pilgrimage thanksgiving service, was reacting to the
homily by Primate of the Anglican Church, Most Rev, Nicholas Okoh, who
accused politicians of being very unforgiving.
Jonathan said: “The chaplain accused us politicians that we do not
forgive, or that some politicians don’t forgive. Apparently the Bible
said this, but politicians are the people who forgive. Politicians are
those who forgive because in politics, whether local politics or
national, you don’t have permanent friends or permanent enemies, but
permanent interests.
“If somebody is your enemy today and there is a change of interest
and he becomes your friend, first of all, you have to forgive, otherwise
you cannot have a friend that you can work with. But politics is just
like some kind of trade. More than 50 per cent of us who are into
politics are not supposed to be politicians.
“For example, in the profession of nursing and teaching, people with
wicked heart and unforgiving spirit are not the kind of people who
should be nurses or teachers, but we find them there. So most of us, who
are in politics are not supposed to be there, but because we have no
other thing to do. So, if you see a politician that cannot forgive, he
is an impostor”, the president added.
Information Nigeria reports that the church service was attended by
dignitaries including the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Executive
Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, NCPC, Mr.
John-Kennedy Opara, Rep. Ndidi Elumelu, immediate past Chief of Army
Staff, General Azubuike Ihejirika and the president’s mother, Madam
Eunice Jonathan.
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