The United Nations (UN) has appointed former Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as UN Global Crises Envoy. The erstwhile Nigerian president, like the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK), Tony Blair, is the first African former leader to be appointed into the dignified international office for mediation in global crises.
The humility, charisma, and peace initiative profile were highlighted by the body as the major credential for the appointment of the former Nigerian President for this highly technical global job.
Members of the global crisis interventionist and mediation body under the UN platform include the superpowers – the United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), China, France, Russia, and the United Nations.
According to the body, “a New UN Envoy is an Opportunity for a New Approach in global crisis, for example in Yemen. “The most important thing here is more than who gets the job but how UN member states and the mediator perceive its purpose, interpretations of which have limited the UN to the flawed two-party framework adopted since 2015.
“It is with this in mind, that the latest information and sourced current update indicated that Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Jonathan is now the New Envoy.
“His profile and record as a former executive started from being a lecturer to getting picked to contest as a deputy governor, holding the office of a Deputy Governor; from there becoming a governor; then, from the governor’s office becoming a Vice President to President Yar’Adua; due to issues he became the Acting President and from the Acting President’s position to President.
“He later won election as the President and was noted to be the first politician to hand-over election outcome to another party without any challenge, in a peaceful and humanly possible position.”
Former President Jonathan had visited President Muhammadu Buhari last week for an undisclosed mission. In less than one week of the visit to the Aso Villa, Abuja, where he had a closed-door meeting with the president, the former president was offered a global appointment by world leaders.
