Outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has advised his ministers and aides to get prepared for persecution from the incoming government, saying he himself is fully prepared for the 'rough days' ahead.
While speaking on Sunday during a thanksgiving service organised in his honour at the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life-camp, Gwarimpa, Abuja, May 10, Mr Jonathan said,
''Some hard decisions have their own cost, no doubt about that. That I have run the government this way that stabilised certain things, the electoral process and other things that brought stability into this country, they were very costly decisions which I myself must be ready to pay for. I sympathise with ministers and aides who served with me because they will be persecuted and they must be ready for that persecution. They will have hard times, we will all have hard times. Our ways will be rough. So I wish them what I wish myself. I have to thank Nigerians, especially my state, for giving me the opportunity to serve as deputy governor and the whole country gave me the opportunity to serve as vice-president and then president. First was to complete the tenure of the late president and later serve as president from which I am exiting now as a very happy and fulfilled man. When I look at the whole picture of my life up to when I became the president of this country and I say that if soldiers and police officers that have not received 0. 5 percent of the benefits that I have received from the state can lay their lives for this country, I should do anything in the interest of Nigeria, including paying the supreme price. As long as live, I will continue to do my best for the state because the state has helped me as a person.''
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