I felt like the world was against me when I lost political race in 2015 - Jonathan

 

Previous Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan drilled down into his profound experience following his 2015 political decision rout.

Talking at the debut Raymond Dokpesi Yearly Precious stone Talk held in Abuja on Friday, October 25, coordinated by Daar Correspondences and the Nigerian Establishment of Advertising, the occasion regarded the late news head honcho Raymond Dokpesi, who died in May 2023.

Jonathan, who filled in as president from 2010 to 2015, considered the extreme sensations of disconnection he felt subsequent to losing his re-appointment bid. "Losing a political decision as a president is difficult. You will think everything and everyone opposes you," he commented. In the 2015 political decision, he looked for a second term on the foundation of the People groups Leftist faction (PDP) however was crushed by Muhammadu Buhari of the All Moderates Congress (APC), making him the principal sitting Nigerian president to lose a re-appointment bid.

Regardless of the misfortune, Jonathan stood out as truly newsworthy by benevolently yielding and praising Buhari even before the authority results were reported by the Autonomous Public Constituent Commission (INEC). At Friday's occasion, he described how Dokpesi offered genuinely necessary help after the misfortune, giving him trust and consolation to push ahead.

Jonathan shared, "Dokpesi welcomed me before I gave over. I recollect what he told me when I lost the political race… After I paid attention to every one of the discussions, he complimented me and urged me to look past the political race." Jonathan said Dokpesi's direction helped with the looming progress as well as given him otherworldly strength for his new life as a confidential resident.

He later definite these appearance in his book, My Change Hours, which gives a more profound investigate his experience progressing out of office.