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An article by News Day states that there are 'facts' surrounding President Goodluck Jonathan's official age that make his age questionable.
The President's official age is 57 in 2015, having been born on November 20, 1957. The article argues that the president is probably at least 10 years older.
The article quotes the president as saying during his Christmas Carol address in 2011:
“I remember the day I was chatting with a group of elders and they said after the war there was electricity everywhere, they travelled out and so on. I came to live in Port Harcourt in 1955. Even then, it was only Port Harcourt that had electricity, even the big cities, Bonny. But now, government must make sure even the smallest village and settlements have electricity light.”
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By that admission alone, the president may be suspected to be at least 60+ years old.
News Day argues that: "Goodluck Jonathan’s account not only shows that he was born before 1955, but that he had cognitive ability to recognize electricity and to recollect this recognition. This puts him at at least 5 years of age in 1955, by which time such intellectual ability is developed. Thus the president’s real age is no less than 63 years!"
The website also posts the image shown below:
The caption speaks for itself.
Attention was also drawn to the book 'World History,' written by William J. Duiker, a former US Foreign Service officer and history professor at Penn State University.
According to News Day, on page 869 of the book are the words: “After Yar’Adua died from an illness in 2010, he was succeeded by his vice president Goodluck Jonathan (b. 1951).”
Age falsification is a common 'crime' in the civil service (presumably to extend the number of years in active service before you are forced to retire.)
This, of course, adds more to the questions that people are asking, least of which isn't the question of the President's Ph.D thesis.
The President's official age is 57 in 2015, having been born on November 20, 1957. The article argues that the president is probably at least 10 years older.
The article quotes the president as saying during his Christmas Carol address in 2011:
“I remember the day I was chatting with a group of elders and they said after the war there was electricity everywhere, they travelled out and so on. I came to live in Port Harcourt in 1955. Even then, it was only Port Harcourt that had electricity, even the big cities, Bonny. But now, government must make sure even the smallest village and settlements have electricity light.”
[Click here to read the story yourself on CP-Africa~]
By that admission alone, the president may be suspected to be at least 60+ years old.
News Day argues that: "Goodluck Jonathan’s account not only shows that he was born before 1955, but that he had cognitive ability to recognize electricity and to recollect this recognition. This puts him at at least 5 years of age in 1955, by which time such intellectual ability is developed. Thus the president’s real age is no less than 63 years!"
The website also posts the image shown below:
The caption speaks for itself.
Attention was also drawn to the book 'World History,' written by William J. Duiker, a former US Foreign Service officer and history professor at Penn State University.
According to News Day, on page 869 of the book are the words: “After Yar’Adua died from an illness in 2010, he was succeeded by his vice president Goodluck Jonathan (b. 1951).”
Age falsification is a common 'crime' in the civil service (presumably to extend the number of years in active service before you are forced to retire.)
This, of course, adds more to the questions that people are asking, least of which isn't the question of the President's Ph.D thesis.
