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Former President Goodluck Jonathan says rulers who refuse to leave office at the end of their tenure are enabled by people who praise and worship them as gods.<\/p>\n

The former Nigerian President, who is one of the speakers at the summit organised by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), said this on Thursday at the constitutional term limits summit.<\/p>\n

According to Jonathan, another reason some presidents hold on to power for fear of persecution and over uncertainty of what life after office would be like.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s create an environment where people will believe there\u2019s life after office. That if you leave office you should not be persecuted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way we manage ourselves as sitting presidents and former presidents matter. The first line is to reduce what will make a sitting president afraid to leave office.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfricans sometimes, we are our own problem because we always think our presidents are little gods. That somebody is president does not mean he is God. We have a tradition of praise-singing. We tend to give our presidents name they don\u2019t deserve.<\/p>\n

Read Also:\u00a0Four Years Too Small For Any President To Perform: Goodluck Jonathan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe tend to over-praise sitting presidents and make them think they are little gods. When they begin to make a sitting president think he is God, and he is the only person that can run the affairs of the nation; then the person will be there; nobody removes God.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you make a president feel he is god, don\u2019t expect him to leave. The media and civil society must continue to admonish characters that make presidents think they are the best thing to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat you are president does not mean you are better than others. We citizens of this continent create little gods, and God cannot leave (power), \u201d he said at the event being covered by TheCable, in Naimey, Niger Republic.<\/p>\n

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