Goodluck Jonathan Fingered As Nigeria’s Poorest Ex President, Hugely Indebted

Goodluck Jonathan is fingered as the nation’s poorest ex president.

And is said to be hugely indebted despite the massive allegations of corruption that rocked his administration.

The former president’s wealth status is made known by retired permanent secretary and diplomat, Ambassador Boladei Igali.

Igali publicly made the disclosure in a chat with media men in Abuja on Sunday maintaining the ex-president is poor and struggling to pay the debts of the election that knocked him out of power while attempting to retain his seat.

The retired diplomat who stretched Jonathan’s ‘’poverty status’’ to the ‘’poorest ex-president in Africa’’ claimed despite allegations of widespread looting rocking his administration the former president left office a ‘’fulfilled man but not as rich as those before him.

According to a version of disclosures credited to the former diplomat sourced from online platform theeagleonline, Igali specifically told newsmen ‘’ “I am glad that some of you journalists are privileged to know where he (Jonathan) lives and where he has his private offices in this country.
“I do not think President Jonathan can be considered a very rich man.
“You must realize that none of those corruption allegations has been personally linked to him.
“Jonathan is not a rich man, take it from me.
“He may be comfortable but not rich.
“But l know that his pension as a former president is enough to take care of him.”
Igali described Jonathan as a “modest” man whose lifestyle and background were humble, adding: “Indeed Jonathan is still struggling to pay some election liabilities from 2015 till today.
“Despite all the stories of flying billions, Jonathan borrowed money to prosecute some aspects of his election and he is struggling in different ways to meet up.
“There’s a lot of untruths that is being said about him, but l believe history will be very fair to him.
“He is a very simple man.
“His background and lifestyle are very simple.
“He is not jingoistic.
“Thank God some of you guys know where he has an office and where he lives in Maitama (Abuja).
“Which former president of Nigeria lives in that kind of place?
“President Jonathan’s parlour in his Maitama house cannot accommodate more than 10 persons.
“Look at his dinning table, it is like any other house in Maitama.
“The only way you will know that a former president of this country is living there is the presence of security men and which he is entitled to as a former president.”