A member of the House of Representatives, Bello El-Rufai, says he was naive to have criticized former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday evening, the lawmaker apologized for criticizing Jonathan’s administration.

Jonathan was Nigeria’s president from 2010 to 2015.

The Kaduna lawmaker noted that he failed to realize that Nigeria had a good governance under Jonathan due to his naivety.

According to him, his naivety came to the fore when he saw his father preparing to visit Jonathan for political consultation.

Bello said: “There was a time I paid my father a visit and noticed that he was going out. I asked where he was going.

“And he said he was going to see President Jonathan, and I paused because when I was naive or when I thought ego or gratification mattered, I used to be very active in criticising President Jonathan.

“I even forgot in my naivety, as many young people do, that we had governance then.

“I found my father saying that he will consult president Jonathan. I said: ‘please, when you see him, tell him I am very sorry, I am wiser now’.

“The system is a problem. Now, why did I mention president Jonathan? It takes a lot, particularly in Africa, to lose an election and leave. He (Jonathan) did that.”