Former Minister for Aviation and Peoples Democratic Party National Women Leader, Dr. Kema Chikwe has compared the President Goodluck Jonathan to Biblical King David.
In a recent interview with SUN, the PDP chieftain said nothing can stop President Jonathan in 2015 and no other political party has yet to provide a better candidate.
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How do you assess Jonathan’s chances in 2015?
Well, if you have anybody better than Jonathan, tell us. That is all I can say. If you have anybody for 2015 tell us. You’re here discussing with me on what he has done, so far. The interesting thing about Jonathan is that he will first of all go to the drawing board. All this railways, agriculture, car assembly plants, he did not just wake up to go into all that. He went to the drawing board and planned them thoroughly. He is an intellectual. And he is a politician. People think that unless you start acting somehow, you’re not a politician. This man has been exposed to politics at the grassroots level, the state and national levels. He has been a lecturer, he worked at NDDC. What other experience do you want? Look at his age. He worked in those places at the prime of his youth.
But the opposition has vowed that they must stop him at all cost.
Power belongs to God. He has chosen Jonathan. And I believe he will continue to lead him. I believe that Jonathan is like David; a young boy in the field as a herdsman tending to the sheep. But all the big brothers who thought they were qualified were there but overlooked. They had to go to the field to get David to become the King. And He has been leading him on in this position. And so, when people want to take it from him, it is between them and God. Jonathan has never claimed to be what he is not. All this people who are not supporting him, they supported him after he emerged. God brought him. He took everybody unawares. So, now that God has put him there, people of Nigeria should look at it critically and see what he has done. You can’t compare Jonathan with people who are full of abuses. You want to destroy, you want to maim, you are so desperate.
It is the same allegation that are being laid at the doorstep of PDP, especially in the just concluded Osun elections. Governor Aregbesola in his acceptance speech said that PDP was so desperate that they threw away every caution and decency.
I don’t want to talk about this. There are so many things I don’t want to talk about, and this is one of them. What I know is that PDP played a good game in Osun. So, if anybody accuses PDP of any bad game, then it means that the person should have a re- think.