Goodluck Jonathan Advocates Stop to Winner-Takes-All Politics

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said it is time for Nigeria to revisit the concept of the winner-take-all in politics.

According to Jonathan, an elected president is not only the president of his political party, but the president of all.

Jonathan made the call at a lecture to mark the eighty-seventh birthday of former President Obasanjo at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta on Tuesday.

The former president said when a president brings an opposition on board his team, he would have introduced quality and inclusiveness into governance.

Governor Dapo Abiodun speaking during their lecture, described Obasanjo as the leading voice in the quest for political emancipation and good governance.

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The Ogun state governor praised him for being a respected democrat, a detribalized, and a pan-African whose passion is for Africa led by quality leadership for the desired economic development.

He urged political leaders to recognize the value of diversity and dissenting opinions, acknowledging that inclusive democracy is a complex concept viewed from various perspectives.

In Africa, the issue of winner-takes-all is one of the major challenges we face, remarked Jonathan.

This thing about inclusive democracy, we have challenges as well, inclusiveness is so diverse, and people look at it from different perspectives but can we, all of us who have been political leaders, in all honesty, say that we ran an inclusive government in the sense that even people that have different views from you, and if they are found worthy, you can bring them into your government.