Jonathan arrives Nigeria on eve of Buhari’s visit to Niger Delta
Former President Goodluck Jonathan returned to the country after weeks abroad.
He arrived on the eve of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Ogoni in Rivers state. Buhari will paying his second visit to the Niger Delta since he took over from Jonathan, to flag-off clean-up of oil spills in the area.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced Joanthan’s return to the country in a tweet.
The tweet read: “The hero of our democracy is back home,” and showed a picture of the former president at the Port Harcourt International airport.
A source at the hierarchy of the party also confirmed to TheCable that the former president was back in the country.
Reno Omokri, former senior special assistant to Jonathan on social media, later confirmed that the Nigerian leader had arrived his Otuoke hometown in Bayelsa.
During Jonathan’s absence, there were reports that he had gone on exile for fear of arrest by the government, but he debunked the news, saying he was out of the country to get some rest, and would soon return.
GEJ is a hero of demo-cash. He ruined the economy with his lack of control over his surbordinates. He inflicted a horrible change on Nigerians. Now they busy are chasing the people GEJ loaded with loose cash and Nigerians are suffocating. Now people are getting ready for “essenco” lines. We could not ave come to this sorry state if not for GEJ.
Truly the father of democracy is back…under his watch Nigerian became the destination of foreign investors..the economy progressed beyond imagination,crude oil output increased tremendously to more than two millions barrels per day and eventually made Nigeria the most powerful economic house in Africa… In addition, he increased the numbers of our higher institutions…