{"id":12067,"date":"2016-10-24T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=12067"},"modified":"2016-10-24T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:23:40","slug":"i-was-never-elected-as-nigerias-president-to-spread-poverty-but-to-generate-and-spread-wealth-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=12067","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was never elected as Nigeria\u2019s president to spread poverty but to generate and spread wealth&#8221; Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=11290&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has, Monday, said that he was never elected as Nigeria\u2019s president to spread poverty but to generate and spread wealth. <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10544\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"jonathan foundation\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-75x75.jpg 75w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former President Jonathan giving his speech at Oxford Jonathan who spoke at the Oxford Union, with the theme \u2018Fostering Youth Entrepreneurship, and succeeding US Secretary of State who spoke at the same event in May this year, said that only being entrepreneurial can completely cure poverty and not \u00a0having a job or working for someone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI once said that I was not elected President of Nigeria to spread poverty; I was elected to generate and spread wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy belief in this regard is that getting a job or being a worker cannot completely cure the disease of poverty. It is only your own business that can provide such security and give you the financial freedom you need to prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jonathan, whose speech was streamed live, rhetorically queried his audience asking \u00a0why some nations are rich and others remain poor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWhy are some nations rich and some poor? Why do individuals that grow up in similar circumstances end up differently, with some as successes and others as failures?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the wealth of nations a result of geography, weather, culture, destiny, etc.? What could a leader do to effectively lift a people out of the depths of poverty and enable them to achieve prosperity?\u201d asked Jonathan. The former Nigerian leader talked about youth entrepreneurship programs his administration pioneered, saying that one of them, YouWIN, was a major plank of his job creation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motivation for this program is for young people to go into SMEs, create jobs for other young people with the expectation that some would grow to large scale businesses\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jonathan said. He concluded his speech by giving a short brief of his achievements in the economic sphere, saying, \u201cUnder my watch, Nigeria was projected by CNN Money to be the third fastest growing economy in the world for the year 2015 and rated as the largest economy in Africa and the 23rd largest in the world by the World Bank and the IMF, with a GDP above half a Trillion US dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan with some students at Oxford The speech was streamed live via Dr. Jonathan\u2019s Facebook page and will be hosted on the Oxford Union\u2019s site. Previous speakers at the Oxford Union include the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, author of 48 laws of power, Robert Greene, the Dalai Lama, former British prime ministers Winston Churchill, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Others were Mother Teresa and former US presidents Richard Nixon (November 1978), Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton. 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