{"id":716389,"date":"2019-10-04T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/04\/i-have-no-regrets-conceding-defeat-to-buhari-in-2015-jonathan\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:17:53","slug":"i-have-no-regrets-conceding-defeat-to-buhari-in-2015-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/04\/i-have-no-regrets-conceding-defeat-to-buhari-in-2015-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have No Regrets Conceding Defeat To Buhari In 2015: Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_690873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-690873\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-690873\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Goodluck-Ebele-Jonathan.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-690873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Goodluck Jonathan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that if he was given the circumstance, he would still concede defeat to President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan who was the incumbent president during the 2015 presidential election said he has no regret for conceding to Buhari up to this moment.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan said this while responding to a question by TheCable on whether he regrets conceding the election in 2015, considering some unsavory developments in the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>His words: \u201cLet me thank the young man (Fredrick Nwabufo) from Nigeria for asking me that direct question. Let me put it very clearly. If I have the opportunity in a similar circumstance, I will do exactly the same thing,\u201d he said at the constitutional term limits summit in Naimey, Niger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always say that if you want to take a public office you should be ready to make personal sacrifices. If you are not ready to help people, then you have no business going into politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we should also know the process of building a society. People die in the process of building a society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no regret up to this time, no matter the circumstances, I have no regret because what I did will continue to shape political discussions, not only in Nigeria but across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people may not appreciate it, but as we continue to strengthen democracy, people will begin to look at conducts that are acceptable and some that are not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the little contribute I have made will help to improve our democracy in the country and on the continent, yes, I will do the same thing again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people raise the issue of people around the president, how do you manage them because there is a tendency for such people to influence the president negatively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA classical example is what happened in the Gambia. There was a former military head of state who became a civilian president. He now encouraged election. When that election was to take place, people thought he would manipulate the system. Somehow he lost the election, and the voting margin was very narrow, but he conceded that election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0South African Police Open Fire On IPOB Members For Protesting Against Buhari In Pretoria (VIDEO)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the chairman of the political party that won the election issued a statement threatening to probe Jammeh. And the man was afraid. \u2018 I\u2019m still sitting here and they want to probe me already. Ok, let\u2019s fight\u2019. He said he was no longer going to accept defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo people around a president can really cause crisis. Remember in my book, during that transition period people around wanted to collapse the beautiful thing we were doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuhari and I were in talks. And when the issue came up, I called him and we resolved it and we moved on. I agree people around a president can make one suggestion or the other that can influence him negatively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople like that will always be there. But a president must be ready to resist from being pushed to a direction they don\u2019t want to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that if he was given the circumstance, he would still concede defeat to President Muhammadu Buhari. Jonathan who was the incumbent president during the 2015 presidential election said he has no regret for conceding to Buhari up to this moment. Jonathan said this while responding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I Have No Regrets Conceding Defeat To Buhari In 2015: Jonathan - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/04\/i-have-no-regrets-conceding-defeat-to-buhari-in-2015-jonathan\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I Have No Regrets Conceding Defeat To Buhari In 2015: Jonathan - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former President Goodluck Jonathan Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that if he was given the circumstance, he would still concede defeat to President Muhammadu Buhari. 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