“Nigeria Cannot Be Fixed by a Thousand Goodluck Jonathans,” Farotimi Explains
Dele Farotimi, a lawyer and human rights activist, has rejected ideas that former President Goodluck Jonathan would rejoin the political front lines, arguing that significant structural changes are needed to address Nigeria’s issues rather than a new leadership.
According to Ogulagha Vanguards (OVL) News, Farotimi was responding to recent rumors that suggested Jonathan would make a comeback before the national elections in 2027.
He said it is erroneous to think that Nigeria’s problems can be resolved by bringing back Jonathan or any other past leader.
“A thousand Goodluck Ebele Jonathans cannot solve the problems of Nigeria. They might as well go ahead to increase his brain powers by factors of a thousand for good measure. If we do not address our structural problems and tell ourselves the basic truths we owe to ourselves, nothing is going to change,” Farotimi declared on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday.
He remembered how, despite promises of a better Nigeria, Jonathan was once harshly criticized and ousted from government, but the same issues still exist ten years later.
“They can recycle all these people as many times as they care. This was the same Jonathan that was horribly vilified and labelled. The press, the pulpit, and the mosque all said his removal would solve our problems, and here we are,” he said.
Without reforms, removing Tinubu won’t make a difference, according to Farotimi.
Nigeria’s crisis transcends persons, the activist emphasized, and he cautioned that overthrowing incumbent President Bola Tinubu without implementing structural changes would only prolong the failure cycle.
“If you removed Bola Ahmed Tinubu from office today, and you do not touch that evil system that has produced the kind of people who have ruined the country, all this talk about Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is just more distraction from the political ‘ruinning’ class,” he argued.
Farotimi cautioned against the propensity to search for a political “messiah” and urged the establishment of institutions and long-term reforms.
“It’s about building enduring systems. How do you rebrand a failure of 2015 into a saint and saviour in 2025? Ten years have gone full cycle, and we’re back saying we were better off where we were,” he added.
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