Goodluck Jonathan, former President has won the
African Leadership Magazine Person of the Year, 2015. Jonathan defeated APC
National chairman, Bola Tinubu, founder of ECONET wireless Strive Masiyiwa,
former UBA Chairman Tony Elumulelu, President, African Development Bank
Akinwumi Adesina and Koffi Anan, former UN secretary general to win the award.
Jonathan's victory was revealed in a letter sent
to him by former, Pro Tempore president of the Liberian senate and chairman of
the 2015 African Leadership Person of the Year selection committee, Cletus
Wortoson. The letter in part reads:
"There is no one best suited at the moment than your excellency, to
advise the continent’s leaders on the merits of good governance and enduring
democracy”. Your popular mantra of ‘one man one vote’ and ‘my ambition is not
worth the blood of any Nigerian,’ is a message that must be preached loud and
clear on the continent, hence our endorsement. It is with great pleasure that I
bring you the news of your selection as the African Leadership Magazine Person
of the Year, 2015.
Chief among the many factors we considered was your efforts towards
promoting good governance in Africa through the promotion of free and fair
elections across the continent. Your recent assignment to Tanzania
received accolades and international acclaim, because you discharged the
responsibility most creditably.
We resolved that there is no one best suited at the moment than Your
Excellency, to advise the continent’s leaders on the merits of good governance
and enduring democracy.
The board is fully persuaded that you have served your country, Nigeria,
meritoriously, conducted a free and fair election, in which you lost and yet
conceded defeat, a development seeing by many in the continent as
historical.
Your popular mantra of ‘one man one vote’ and ‘my ambition is not worth
the blood of any Nigerian,’ is a message that must be preached loud and clear
on the continent, hence our endorsement."
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