Former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has showered praises on Nigeria former President, Goodluck Jonathan for leaving behind a legacy no successor can surpass.
Oshiomhole who spoke at the one-year memorial lecture in honour of late Captain Hosa Okunbo, in Abuja on Saturday, said good leaders are not appreciated until they leave office.
Oshiomhole was quoted saying:
“You (Jonathan) left legacies even though that I had cause to fight because it is politics. The legacy you have left, there is no successor who can afford to do less.
“But the logic of multi-party democracy is that even an angel can be defeated. You have set a standard that none of your successors can afford to go below.
“Part of your (Jonathan) legacies was when you launched the almajiri school and your thought was that no Nigerian child should be left on the street and also appropriated special funds.
These ideas are not new but what we lack is the will to transform it to practice. We never know who are our friends until when we are no more.
“No one is appreciated until he or she leaves office,” he said.