For the students of history, another research tool has become handy as a biography of President Goodluck Jonathan’s personal and political narrative titled, Moving Forward, has been launched.
The book which was unveiled to the public on Tuesday night at The Pierre Hotel, in New York City, United States of America by House 2 House organisation, was mainly to correct the distortions of his achievements, to carefully and deliberately reintroduce him to a larger global audience.
According to the author of the book, Prof. Matthew Uzukwu, the book judiciously integrates the President’s personal narrative from his humble beginnings in 1957, in Otuoke in Ogbia local government area to 1998, just before the onset of his political career, with his professional narrative from his election in 1999 as Deputy Governor to his current full term as the President of Nigeria.
According to Uzukwu, who is an adjuncr Professor of Operations Management at Bowie University, Maryland, USA, “I found out that there are lot of misinformation about Mr. President and so I decided to research about the man and his life, to know his achievements and try to correct some of the distortions about him and I thought to add his personal story to it as well so that it will be a complete book.
“The book is to bring an unblemished information to the world about the President Goodluck Jonathan. For one, the opposition is fund of derogating him that he is weak, he is not governing the country well and in the cause of my research I discovered most of that discribtion are not true. To me even though I am not his spokesperson, in my view and many may think I’m biased but I am coming from a point of objectivity because I would have added the negative aspect as well if it were true. But he has performed creditably well in the economy and there are facts to back up his performance,” he stated.
In his remarks, the Chairman Board of Trustees of House 2 House Initiative, Dr. Reuben Jaja, said it decided to take the message of the President’s performance to all communities in the country with regards to the transformation agenda and why he should be given a second term to continue.
“It is to ensure our electorates are well informed that they should vote for performance should he decide to run. There are about 8,000 organisations that are asking him to run and they span from the south to the north, saying that Nigeria is better off today under his leadership and should be allowed to continue.
“We decided to take ours to another level because we believe that the diasporans have contributed enormously in supporting the nation’s economy. We are the only campaign organisation that decided to write a book of our president so that people will know him better from his birth up to date.
“Our diasporans are intellectuals and they understand what the President has done and will help us share with the international community,” he said.
