Ex-Nigerian President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has appealed to politicians to inculcate and promote peace, love, and unity for the stability and growth of the country.
The former president made this known on Saturday in Yenagoa during a Thanksgiving Service organized by the Bayelsa Government to mark Gov. Douye Diri’s administration one year in office.
The former president also said that politics should not be seen as a war but a process of choosing a leader and that after elections, there should be love and unity amongst all political parties if Nigeria’s stability must be maintained.
Governor Diri’s administration clocks exactly one year in office on Feb. 14.
The former president said after every political process, all should come together to give support to whoever God wanted to be there.
He commended Diri for opening his hands to other political parties in the state, irrespective of party affiliation.
‘Immediately you win an election you automatically become the governor of everyone irrespective of party affiliation.
‘There is nothing wrong for a governor or president to pick someone from another political party and make him or her Minister or Commissioner,’ he said.
In his remarks, Gov Diri said it could only be God that no one could predict His ways as it’s different from the way of man.
Diri commended the Nigerian judiciary and the Supreme Court in particular, which he said remained the hope of the common man.
He said that his administration had put things on the ground that would benefit Bayelsa women and youths urging the citizens and residents of the state to give him their total support.
The governor also appealed to those that left the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP) to other political parties to return as the party was big enough to accommodate them.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK