Confab: We proved critics wrong, says Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that the success recorded by the national conference had proved those who he said predicted that nothing good would come out of it.

The President, who spoke while closing the conference which he inaugurated in March 17, 2014, commended the delegates for controlling their emotions during the period the conference lasted.

He said, “The success of this conference has proved the cynics wrong in many respects.

“Those who dismissed the entire conference ab initio as a ‘diversion’ have been proved wrong as what you achieved has contrary to their forecast diverted our country only from the wrong road to the right direction.

“They said the conference would end in a deadlock as Nigeria had reached a point where the constituent parts could no longer agree on any issue.”