FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan, has urged politicians not to take politics as war.
Jonathan made the call while speaking at the supreme court victory/thanksgiving service of Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, at the State Ecumenical Centre, Yenagoa.
According to him, politicians should accept outcome of elections as the will of God.
“Those of us who are in politics should learn to play politics as politics and not as a war, at the end of every political process let all of us come together and support whoever by divine providence God has made to be there.
“If we must change, if we must develop then those of us who are contesting for political leadership must know that politics is not war, it’s not a military coup that at the end of the day, we must all come to support whoever that is there so that we can move our state forward and this nation forward.
“In Nigeria what we know especially at the national level is a change of government through coups. And at the end of that coup whether the coup succeeds or not both parties live as enemies. Sometimes they stay as enemies till they die.”
He also spoke about his relationship with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying, “PDP has been a very friendly party.
“I am a member of PDP and I know from the beginning till today, it has been a very friendly party.
“PDP is a party that carries everybody along and we should extend that at Bayelsa State level, that starts it in Bayelsa State so that all those who are in the political process so that at the end of any political contestation for the governorship or any other office, let us work together for the interest of our people.”
