Subsidy Removal: Photographs of my mock coffin traumatised my mother who’d lost 8 children, says Jonathan
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says pictures of his mock coffin displayed in the media during the anti-fuel subsidy removal protests of 2012 led by prominent Nigerians traumatised his aged mother who had lost eight children.
Jonathan said this in his book published shortly after his tenure, titled, ‘My Transition Hours.’
The former President said, “The protests continued unabated. In all of these, one woman I pitied most was my aged mother who was with me in the State House.
“Every day, she watched on television protesters carrying a casket with my picture on it and having the inscription ‘Rest In Peace.’
“I could imagine her trauma. This is a woman who had 10 live births with only my elder sister and I surviving.”
Jonathan said during the protests, several notable Nigerians visited him, asking him to reverse the increment in the pump price of petrol.
Where are the protesters today? Are they all gone? Where are the other prominent Nigerians that visited President Goodluck urging him to reverse the increment in the pump price of petrol? Have they also died?
