At a meeting in which he met with a delegation of the former Speakers, State Houses of Assembly elected on the platform of the PDP in his office in Abuja on Thursday, former president Jonathan quipped that he will soon reveal the real reasons that led to the PDP's monumental defeat at the 2015 General Elections.
He said, “There are stories of corruption. I say this will always be there because if you read the statement of the organisers of the first military coup, their statement was attributed to corruption.
“After that, all the coup plotters always gave corruption as the reason for their action. It will continue to be but one day we will get out of it. Most nations passed through this stage of life.
“The only thing I plead of you is not to politicise certain basic things. Issues of corruption, yes, it is worrisome. Nobody will encourage it.
“The society must come up with reforms to reduce it, if you cannot eliminate it totally. No society is 100 per cent free of some of these vices but the approach with which you go about it is key.
“You may approach it in a way that it will become detrimental to the society. It should be done in a way that will enhance the development of the nation. So we encourage people to do well".
You will recall that former president Goodluck Jonathan lost his reelection bid to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in April, 2015.
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