A former governor of Bayelsa State and self-styled Governor-General of Ijaw nation, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, DSP, has declared that former President, Goodluck Jonathan has no money, stressing that President Muhammadu Buhari will find nothing if he is expecting to extract money from his predecessor.
The once political godfather of Jonathan made this disclosure while interacting with Vanguard, where he claimed that the former President is “a quiet and highly contented Nigerian but not a rich man.”
Alamieyeseigha, while faulting Balarabe Musa’s recent assertion that Jonathan was not prepared for leadership, insisted that the Bayelsa-born statesman is more experienced than any other president that has ruled this country in the past.
While wondering how somebody who has been in office for 16 years can be said not to be qualified, he explained that Jonathan was “in office as deputy governor and was overseeing administration of local governments and was very conversant with the administration of local governments at that level. He was also performing the role of a deputy governor.
“He became a governor and is also familiar with governance at that level. He became a vice president and later acting president and a president. Which Nigerian has that pedigree? None. So, Balarabe Musa goofed. I am not aware of any special school that people go to become president.
“Academically, he is more qualified than any of them, and in our local environment at the University of Port Harcourt, he has street knowledge because he is locally bred.”
Admitting that not everybody will like his style, the former Governor maintained that no other president has done for Nigeria the much that Jonathan did for the country. He maintained that the former President is, “unassuming but with very high intellectual content.”
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