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Former Nigeria’s President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; his wife, Dame Patience, and mother, Madam Eunice Afeni have cast their vote in the ongoing presidential and National Assembly elections.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the former president, his wife and mother cast their vote at Unit 39, Ward 13 at the Otazi Playground, Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa.
Jonathan, who voted at 9:30 a.m., while his wife, Patience voted at 9:32 a.m. followed by Ayi, after voting, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the election.
He said that if the election was marred with violence and wrong people elected, there would never be development in the country.
“For us as Nigerians, if we want to grow we must endeavour to elect the right people to lead us. So Nigeria needs decent and credible elections.
“As a PDP member, I want my party to win all the seats.
“We must give room for credible elections that is the only way a true leader can be selected to rule the people,” Jonathan said.
He advised any candidate who might lose the election to concede defeat in the spirit of true democracy.
“When you lose election accept it, if you think you are good enough and you are interested you can come back” the former president told newsmen immediately after casting his vote.
TNG recalls Jonathan and his wife, in the 2015 presidential elections, which Jonathan contested and lost, were faced with an ordeal at the polling unit where the card reader deployed refused their permanent voters card (PVC).
The card reader rejected their PVCs even after they tried repeatedly during accreditation, and it was the same thing for Jonathan’s mother in the 2015 presidential election. They managed to vote upon filling the incident forms.
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