By our reporter| The former national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiohole on Saturday said former President Goodluck Jonathan left a legacy that succeeding leaders should try to emulate and surpass.
Oshiomole, who stated this at the one-year memorial lecture in honour of Hosa Okunbo, chairman of Ocean Marine Solution, in Abuja,
said Jonathan will always be remembered for making a historic call by congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari prior to the official declaration of the result of the 2015 presidential election.
“You left legacies even though I had cause to fight because it is politics. The legacy you have left, there is no successor who can afford to do less,” Oshiomole said.
“But the logic of multi-party democracy is that even an angel can be defeated. You have set a standard that none of your successors can afford to go below.
“Part of your legacies was when you launched the almajiri school and you thought that no Nigerian child should be left on the street, and you appropriated special funds.
“These ideas are not new, but what we lack is the will to transform it to practice. We never know who are our friends until when we are no more.”
As chairman of the then opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) prior to the 2015 presidential election, Oshiomhole was one of the harshest critics of former president Goodluck Jonathan and his government, and stated that his mission was to ensure that he was voted out of office.
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