{"id":210104,"date":"2022-08-14T10:26:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T09:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=210104"},"modified":"2022-08-14T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T13:42:43","slug":"why-past-leaders-efforts-to-nigeria-failed-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/14\/why-past-leaders-efforts-to-nigeria-failed-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why past leaders\u2019 efforts to Nigeria failed \u2013 Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has decried that spirited efforts of past leaders, especially those of the First Republic, to unite Nigerians did not yield positive results.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated on Saturday in Abuja by Jonathan at <span class=\"s2\">the one-year memorial lecture in honour of the late Captain Hosa Okunbo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">According to him, the present crop of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/07\/nans-dissolves-asefon-led-leadership-fixes-august-12-to-inaugurate-new-exco\/\">leaders<\/a> inherited a country that was already balkanized into three regions and later four regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Speaking on the topic \u2018Lasting Legacy: Key to Nigeria\u2019s Development Issues\u2019, Jonathan said that the leaders did their best to also position the country for economic growth and development, but the attempts yielded more to centrifugal forces that reinforced ethnic cleavages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/12\/2023-presidential-ticket-pdp-crisis-worsens-as-wike-drags-atiku-to-court\/\">president<\/a> said that rather than see Nigeria as a united entity, they (past leaders) saw it as a country of different nationalities under which the regions would pursue their different development agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI believe that the legacy of nationhood and roots of unity were weak at Nigeria\u2019s independence and not much has been done since then to strengthen the base of the union,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also speaking, a former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, said Nigerians don\u2019t appreciate leaders until they leave office.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has decried that spirited efforts of past leaders, especially those of the First Republic, to unite Nigerians did not yield positive results. 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