Revealed Secrets you must know about Jonathan
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President Jonathan once lived in Oguta where he attended St. Paul’s
Anglican Church Primary School.He was nicknamed ‘Aguduma” by his peers
in primary school.Madam Emilia Ajie, from Ogbaru area of Anambra State,
who happened to be his land lady at that time at the Kalabari Beach, in
Oguta 11, has now revealed quite a lot about him to Sun Newspaper.Back
then, Goodluck who lived with his uncle, popularly called Chief was
always ill-treated.According to her, his uncle never bought him school
books, sandals or other things he needed for school.She further said
that Jonathan was always the last, among the pupils who lived in the
compound, to go to school daily because of house chores he must complete
every morning.
“Goodluck is a very quite and respectful person, even in the face of
hardship inflicted on him by his uncle, who was popularly called Chief
and we always felt sorry for him because of the way his uncle was
treating him. They were then living in our boys’ quarters. His uncle’s
son usually did nothing. It was Goodluck, who did everything in the
house, including cooking.At the end of the civil war, in 1970,
Goodluck’s uncle, left with his wife, who was from Izombe, for their
hometown, he had left behind his son and Goodluck because they were
still in school and had promised to come back for them. But after his
son finished his primary school, Chief sent for him and left Goodluck
behind,”A frightening accident he had:“one day, while Goodluck was still
living in our compound, he had gone to pluck mango with other young
boys, but fell from the tree and as I was returning from the market I
heard children shouting that ‘Aguduma’ had fallen off the mango tree and
I quickly rushed to scene and used my head-tie to bind his fractured
right hand.My husband’s brother, popularly known as Ajasco, who was
returning from the farm, had carried him (Jonathan), with the assistance
of other children and took him to a popular traditional bonesetter in
the neigbourhood, called Nwanyiogu from Mgidi but married to Kalabari
man.And while he was receiving treatment for his injured hand, we were
always bringing him food because both his uncle and the son had gone
back to their hometown. He left Oguta in 1972 and I have not set eyes on
him again nor heard anything about him. I only got to know that
Jonathan had become the president of Nigeria when I saw, in 2011 an
Almanac bearing his photograph “Look at Goodluck!”
Sun Newspaper
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