Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday said he has accepted the apology of the son of former President Shehu Shagari, Aminu, who worked against him during the run-up to the 2015 presidential election.
The former President made this known in a Facebook post while acknowledging Aminu’s public apology.
Jonathan wrote in the post titled Dear Honourable Aminu Shagari, stating “Thank you for your apology. However, I never took offence.
“My firm belief is that I am a pencil in the Hand of God. Therefore, I have no enemies to fight, because of my confidence that people can only do to me what God permits.
“I urge you to continue to emulate the humility of your father, the late President Shehu Shagari, a most detribalised Nigerian. May God bless you. GEJ”
Aminu Shagari is a three-term House of Representatives member and lawyer son of the late President Shehu Shagari.
The lawmaker had some days ago apologized to the former Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for helping to bring down his government to ensure Muhammadu Buhari emerged despite that as a military officer he led a coup that dethroned his father in 1983.
According to him, “Let me use this opportunity to tender a public apology to former President Jonathan and seek forgiveness because I helped to divide the Peoples Democratic Party and bring down his government, but, I have found out that what we thought about his stewardship was not entirely true.
“I expect President Buhari to also ask for forgiveness having found out that most of the things he accused my dad’s and President Jonathan’s administrations of are not true.”
