Jonathan tasks citizens on societal development

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians to contribute their quota towards the development of the country.

He opined that building a good and virile society is not the exclusive reserve of those occupying high offices in the country but the general duty of every citizen.

Jonathan spoke during the funeral of the late Chief Daniel Rex-Ogbuku, an elder-statesman, educationist and former Commissioner for Electricity and Water Supply in old Rivers State, who died of cardiac arrest at 84, The Nations said.

Other personalities who joined the ex-President to pay their last respects to the late octogenarian, described as one of the pillars of Ogbia Kingdom, were the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege; Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo (Bayelsa East Senatorial District); Senator Clever Ikisikpo; Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Konbowei Benson, among others.

Jonathan, who was accompanied by his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, to the funeral, said that the only thing people could be remembered for when they are no more is the good things they did while alive.

The former President said because of the deceased’s selfless service to humanity and the love he had for Ogbia people, he resigned his lucrative job in 1972 as a senior engineer with Shell and opted to be a principal in a secondary school located in the bush then.