{"id":234197,"date":"2025-08-11T22:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/a-thousand-goodluck-jonathans-can-not-fix-nigeria-farotimi-reveals-why\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:06:46","slug":"a-thousand-goodluck-jonathans-can-not-fix-nigeria-farotimi-reveals-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/a-thousand-goodluck-jonathans-can-not-fix-nigeria-farotimi-reveals-why\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Thousand Goodluck Jonathans Can Not Fix Nigeria\u2019 \u2013 Farotimi Reveals Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A Thousand Goodluck Jonathans Can Not Fix Nigeria\u2019 \u2013 Farotimi Reveals Why<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>Human Rights Activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has dismissed suggestions that former President Goodluck Jonathan could return to the political frontline, insisting that Nigeria\u2019s problems require deep structural reforms rather than another change in leadership.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Naija News<\/strong> reports that Farotimi was reacting to recent reports hinting at Jonathan\u2019s possible re-emergence ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the belief that bringing back Jonathan, or any other former leader, would solve Nigeria\u2019s challenges is misguided.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-track\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSXNhYWMiLCIiLDRd\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd3GiRw0g6bOS3kAtHb1Yhc5Jic6iTkM9pA5DhIB13uZgDpGQ\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=102633326415294296882\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1026109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naijanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-09-at-16.23.48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"560\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cA 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,\u201d<\/em> Farotimi declared on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled how Jonathan was once heavily criticised and removed from office amid promises of a better Nigeria, yet the same problems persist a decade later.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey 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,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Removing <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>Without Reforms Will Change Nothing \u2013 Farotimi Insists<\/h2>\n<p>The activist stressed that Nigeria\u2019s crisis goes beyond personalities and warned that removing the current President <strong>Bola Tinubu<\/strong> without systemic reforms would simply perpetuate the cycle of failure.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you removed Bola Ahmed <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>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 \u2018ruinning\u2019 class,\u201d<\/em> he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi called for institution-building and long-term reforms, warning against the tendency to look for a political \u201cmessiah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s 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\u2019re back saying we were better off where we were,<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"copyright\"><strong>\u00a9 2025 Naija News, a division of Polance Media Inc. 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