Jonathan’s friend’s joke on Special Advisers

 

With the approval of the Senate for the appointment of 15 Special Advisers by President Muhammadu Buhari, the new appointees should be named soon.
In determining who should be named Special Advisers, President Buhari will find a joke shared by a friend of former President Goodluck Jonathan on who should be appointed.
Ex- President Jonathan shared the joke while swearing -in

13 of his 18 Special Advisers in 2011.
“Let me share a joke with you that a friend recently told me when I was talking about Special Advisers; he admonished me and said, Mr. President, ‘I hope you will not appoint Special Advisers that you will advise’. But from your citation, I am quite sure that I am appointing Special Advisers that will advise me and not those I will advise. So I congratulate you,” Jonathan stated.
He reminded the Advisers that government’s challenges are quite enormous, saying that “if you have been following the papers, you will know that Nigerians expect so much from us. As Special Advisers, you are expected to be more knowledgeable in the area that you will advise than even Ministers, in most democracies that is what it is supposed be”.