Goodluck Jonathan, Former President Goodluck Jonathan has advised the winners of the presidential elections in 2023.
He also congratulated Atiku Abubakar of PDP, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Bola Tinubu of APC for emerging as 2023 presidential candidates.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Atiku Abubakar of PDP, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Bola Tinubu of APC for emerging as 2023 presidential candidates, advising them to avoid insulting one another and inciting violence.
He urged the candidates to run a campaign devoid of rancour and divisiveness by ensuring that issues confronting Nigeria and credible solutions take the centre stage in their electioneering campaigns.
“As I have always said, no ambition is worth the life of another. As candidates, you must eschew violence and acts that will encourage any form of bloodletting or exacerbate the national fault lines. We live in a season of unprecedented violence and all political leaders have a responsibility to de-escalate the tension in the country,” stated the ex-president.
He added, “The candidates by conduct and language must prioritise non-violence and peaceful coexistence.”
Mr Jonathan, in a statement issued by his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, on Thursday, congratulated other presidential flag bearers, including Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Malik Ado-Ibrahim of Young Progressives Party (YPP), Dan Nwanyanwu of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Dumebi Kachikwu of African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Adewole Adebayo of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
