Obasanjo Is My Father - GEJ

In a recent interview with Tribune, President GEJ
said that former president, OBJ was his father and
that he had great respect for him. When asked on
how he felt watching Chief Obasanjo destroy his
PDP membership card on television, Jonathan said
the incident had no effect on him because the
attacks had been consistent.
He told tribune;
“First and foremost, Obasanjo is a father to
me. By divine providence and the grace of
God, I am the President of Nigeria today. It is
not by my strength. But God uses human
beings to actualise His own blessings on
human beings. And He used so many
Nigerians, including former President
Obasanjo, to play one role or the other for
me. I became the deputy governor of a state,
became the governor, the vice president and
president. I have no issues with him, and I
really don’t want to join issues with President
Obasanjo.
I think it is not necessary. But I will use this
opportunity, because you asked, to just plead
with my father that he is a leader, a former
president of the country. He has led the
country more than anybody, eight years of
democratic governance and almost four years
of military governance. No other person has
that kind of record. The stability of this
country is critical in terms of the economy of
this country. Rating agencies downgrade
countries that are going into elections
because the feeling is that there would be
crisis. When you paint the colour of instability
for your own nation, you are doing so much
injustice to the country because it affects the
economy of the country, not just affecting the
country in terms of security and social issues
alone. It affects the economy directly. So, I
plead with very senior citizens that Nigeria is
dear to us; we don’t have any other country
than Nigeria. So, actions and inactions, or
utterances, should be guarded so that we
don’t expose our country to the international
community as if it is a country in danger, a
country that is about to collapse. You are
frightening investors, especially those who
invest hot cash, to pull out their money from
the country and that would affect the stock
market and it would affect the economy. For
one reason or the other, Obasanjo may
disagree with me as his first political son.
You can even disagree with your own
biological children, as a human being, not to
talk of disagreeing with your political
children. So, he can agree or disagree with
me, but the utterances have to be managed in
a way that it does not affect the economy and
security of this country”he said.