Why I Renounced Agreement To Serve Single Term In Office – Jonathan
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, ex-Nigerian president[/caption]
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has explained why he reneged on his initial agreement to serve a single term in office.
This, Jonathan said in the recently launched book titled “Against the Run of play: How an incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria,” written by Segun Adeniyi, Chairman, ThisDay Board of Editors.
The former president, in the book, admitted that there was indeed a gentleman’s agreement that he was only going to serve just a single term in office.
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But that his decision to back pedal on that agreement was completely within the armpit of the law.
“You can make a political promise and change your mind, so long as it is within the law,” said Jonathan.
“I had made a proposition for a single term of seven years.
“That was the context in which I spoke in Addis Ababa that if the idea was accepted, I would not run again.
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“It was not in the context of a second term of four years.
“Of course, at that period, the issue of one term was brought several times at different meetings and some people took it upon themselves to pledge on my behalf but I never said I was going to spend only one term… the question was always usually randomly asked and I never made any such commitment to anybody,” he said.
