Jonathan predicts hard times for self, ministers after May 29

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he and his ministers will face hard times after leaving office. The president said this on Sunday at a thanksgiving and farewell service held in his honour at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp, Gwarimpa, Abuja. He said he sympathized with his aides and ministers, saying they would be persecuted and must be ready for persecution. In a veiled reference to his concession of defeat in the March 28 presidential poll, he said taking certain decisions for the good of the generality of people would affect people differently. Jonathan, who said he was glad that he came to Abuja peacefully and was leaving peacefully, thanked Nigerians for supporting him at his most challenging moments. "If you take certain decisions, it might be good for the generality of the people, but it might affect people differently. So, for ministers and aides who served with me, I sympathize with them; they'll be persecuted. And they must be ready for that persecution.To my ministers, I wish you what I wish myself. They (his ministers) will have hard times. We will all have hard times. Our ways will be rough. "But we're happy the ordinary people appreciate what we did and that's most important. It's not what the elite or the privileged few talk or say about you, but what the majority of the Nigerian public think about your actions and inactions that matters. We came to Abuja peacefully and we're returning peacefully.I thank the church and Nigerians because they stood by us at our most difficult times," he said.
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