ADDRESS BY PDP STAKEHOLDERS FROM THE NORTH-WEST ZONE ON THE OCCASION OF A SOLIDARITY VISIT TO DR GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THURSDAY 9 th JANUARY 2014 AT THE STATE HOUSE ABU,A PROTOCOLS

1. Mr. President, Best Compliments of the season greater for prayers and wishes vibrant and successes in the year ahead.

2. It is a great pleasure and privilege for us, the Zone, West North the in PDP of the leaders representing the teeming millions of our members in the Zone to have this opportunity to pay a solidarity visit to our President and leader, His Excellency Dr. Goodlucb Ebele Jonathan (GCFR) President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

3. We thank you most heartily and are very grateful for granting us this afternoon's audience not only to pay you a solidarity visit but to also commend you for the good job you are doing across the country.

4. Mr. President, permit us to, also, thank the Vice President, Arc Mohammed Namadi Sambo (GCON) for earlier granting us the same privilege about a week ago when we went to felicitate with him in Kaduna. The Vice-President is working hard to reinvigorate the party and to maintain its vibrancy. This is evident in the various consultative meetings he holds across the North and the Zone particular. Let us assure Mr. President that the Vice-President is very much on ground and holding forth for you in our zone and the North in general, notwithstanding the cacophony of noises being peddled by the opposition.

5. Your steadfastness and determination to put in place a solid and well thought-out transformational agenda for repositioning the country towards a better future of steady and sustainable development is very much appreciated.

6. The Transformation Agenda is now embedded economic for templates country's the into revitalization and, well on course. The dawn of a new era of progress and betterment of the fortunes and lives of Nigeria and our good people has brightened the horizon of hope. We can only pray that God will bless our collective efforts, under your dynamic leadership, to move Nigeria forward and away from the era of dashed hopes and wastage of national as well as natural resources.

7. Our political party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) on whose platform we still stand daram dam, Your Excellency, is not under any threat and we urge you to continue the implementation of the manifesto of our great party as will be subsequently outlined in this address.

We are particularly glad to note the pragmatic and impactful dividends that your Administration has provided in the North, particularly the North-west zone, through execution of several meaningful projects in all sectors of the economy. We are also grateful for your giant strides in the socio-economic sectors.

9. We appreciate that about 101 of a total of 125 Almajirai schools have since been completed and commissioned, and work is progressing on the remaining 24 now at various stages of completion. This revolutionary project, never witnessed before in the nation's history, has tremendously transformed the region's socio-economic landscape, bringing significant federal intervention to address an endemic and embarrassing social malaise peculiar to the region. This is more than enough evidence of the priority and pride of place that the entire northern states and people command in the policy planning and project implementation programmes of the Goodluck-Sambo Government.

10. Your nationalistic and patriotic motivations in all your thoughts and endeavours have ensured the vigorous pursuit of these lofty goals not only in the North, but all across Nigeria. We also appreciate that of the 12 federal universities established recently, 9 of them are located in the North. These are definitely the right steps in the right direction imbalance aimed at addressing the educational permeating our polity.

11. Mr. President, Nigerians are currently benefitting from the resuscitated rail services that were abandoned and left to decay for about two decades but are now running regularly again. We appreciate the pace of work on the new Kaduna-Abuja standard gauge rail line, which is currently at 70% completion, to be completed at the end of the another is this that doubt no is There year. significant project that will boost efforts at finding lasting solutions to the transportation problems as well as energizing the economy of the region. We are also aware of the impending extension of the Sokoto to Kaura-Namoda from line railway Birnin-Kebbi and to Niger border in Illelah. This will our up open way, small no in certainly, agricultural potentials and create wealth among our people.

12. Mr. President, the Aviation industry has also witnessed positive transformation, especially with the remodelling of airports across the country and the granting of permits to international airlines such airlines. Kenyan and Emirates Turkish, as President, we are pleased to note that Turkish Airlines has commenced flight operations between Kano and Istanbul. This has expanded vistas of opportunities for trade and commerce to flourish. We also make haste to inform you that greater planned the in realized be exist to potentials construction of a befitting airport terminal in Kano, the commercial hub of the North.

13. The massive road constructions and rehabilitation currently ongoing across the country are too numerous to mention but it is instructive to state that most abandoned roads have either been fully completed under your administration or about like to specifically to be completed. We would appreciate Mr. President for the newly awarded Kano Katsina dualisation road project and Dutse and spur to a Shuarin with Kano-Wudil Kwanar Huguma, Kontagora-Yauri-Jega-Tambuwal-Sokoto and Kano-Maiduguri dualisation projects that are all at various advanced stages of completion.

14. In the agricultural sector, which is the mainstay of the economy of the zone, we appreciate the steady transformation of the agricultural sector from a comatose sector to a business-oriented won Nigeria that wonder No enterprise. international recognition and acclaim on security from the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). The effective fertilizer distribution innovation and the drive for massive production especially of staple foods such as the production of a million to us lead gradually will rice of tonnes sufficiency in food production and exit us from the club of food importers.Our farmers are appreciative of the care and concern shown to them by you through the provision of extension services and timely seed distribution.

15. We also appreciate the Great Green Wall project currently being executed in the North to arrest desertification. Let us use this opportunity to enjoin you to remain steadfast and to assist in the provision of additional agricultural infrastructure provision rehabilitation, include will that mechanization and irrigation infrastructure schemes to provide support for agricultural inputs and access to agricultural financing.

16. The privatization drive in the power sector embarked by your administration has been widely acclaimed by stakeholders all over the world as not only the most transparent but the most successful ever. We are proud to be associated with such landmark achievement that has also brought about appreciable improvement in the power situation across the country. We also note and commend the current efforts to revive industries in the North by the construction of the 215mw thermal power plant at Kudendan industrial area in Kaduna now at an advanced stage of completion. We should also mention the Gurara and Galma dams hydro-power projects, the 330kva transmission lines to Kano, and other related projects which we are aware of, including the Katsina wind power project, Jibiya Hydropower Project in Katsina state not to forget the rehabilitation of the Bakalori Irrigation Irrigation Auyo the and projects Hydro-power project in Jigawa state.

17. Your administration's excellent drive towards ensuring full recognition of the fundamental human rights of our citizens is unprecedented. There is a clear cut separation of powers of the three tiers of never witnessed have we and government prisoner of conscience, summary detentions or the breach of the fundamental human rights of our citizens. Democracy is thriving under administration and we are happy to let you know that, notwithstanding the defections by some of our party members, our party is having a breath of fresh air and waxing stronger in the zone.

18. We also appreciate your efforts at combating the current wave of insurgency in the North. Your initial hesitance not to apply the full military option and your continuous call for dialogue with the insurgents was a demonstration of your patience and determination to find reasonable grounds for amicable resolution of the insurgency. We make haste to state that the current action being taken is in the right direction and we are confident that it will bring an end to this insurrection.

19. Your Excellency, we congratulate you and the people of Nigeria on the historic celebration of the centenary of the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorates to form Nigeria. appreciate you, Mr. President, for providing the platform and opportunity for a National Dialogue which will go a long way in enhancing the unity of this country. We pledge our unflinching faith in the oneness and indivisibility of the Nigerian nation.

20. Finally, Mr. President let me assure you that the stakeholders of the PDP in the North-West zone are with you and shall continue to support you and your administration. We assure you of our unwavering support now and in the future. We once again thank you for the audience and wish to further assure you of our continuous loyalty and solidarity always.

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Great!

Handout and free contract things.

At the very least, these stakeholders will get transportation money and at most .........hmmmm

Your Excellency, we congratulate you and the
people of Nigeria on the historic celebration of the
centenary of the amalgamation of the Southern and
Northern Protectorates to form Nigeria.

Abeg this one self na achievement? Pathetic list.

ndu_chucks: Handout and free contract things.

At the very least, these stakeholders will get transportation money and at most .........hmmmm

That is all you have to say? You are sick!!!

Obiagelli:
Abeg this one self na achievement? Pathetic list.

Any sane individual can see the achievements listed above. You should see a shrink ASAP my dear.

We breed in rumours in this country. If it was a rumour that has no fact attached to it u wld see many people commenting on this thread. This is a plus for GEJ administration. Endorsement are coming in every week. This is how politics should be played. Not noisemaking. Shalom

these people are washing off APC's paint used on Gej...transformation indeed. I wonder d kind of progress d pastors in APC are expecting in 2 years term

Jonathan is working,APC is insulting
fresh air will blue APC away

I'm guessing the achievements are in the second part of this worthless story...

These villagers and their useless threads sef....

The administration is just 2 yrs and 8 months agreed, but let him (GEJ) desist from APC propaganda and distraction so that all this projects awarded and others said to be at stages of completion can be completed soonest with picture backing up the claims.
I am in Zaria, those roads they mentioned are real. The problem with the NW is that some govs has refused to perform, since they are muslims no body care about them the pressure is on FG always, even as the current presido is an "unbeliver".
God bless GEJ for his good intentions.

agbameta: I'm guessing the achievements are in the second part of this worthless story...

These villagers and their useless threads sef....

how do u expect to see the achievements when hate has blinded u,its only a matter of time before it kills u

These are the real Northern elders, they mean well for the country unlike Junaid Mohammend.

fabulous4u:
how do u expect to see the achievements when hate has blinded u,its only a matter of time before it kills u

This is the whole truth, you have given the hater what to think about before it's too late for him!

These fake elders should be stoned for their inabilty to tell GEJ the truth.

With all these testimonies last year people are still arguing that FG roads were not reconstructed. Some are bent on seeing only the negatives.

Lunch served to the Anti Progress Congress !

APC won an award in the guinesss book of records as the worst opposition in the universe

Nigeria is destined for greatness!!

Vote wisely

And PDP has to literally pay to get to FP. If this was anti-GEJ....it will be on FP with only one comment

the North has really benefited from this administration, yet, they are the ones spearheading the call for 'change'. I wonder what type of change they want again. Well, that's just the Hausa- Fulani Moslem for you. Which Northern president has ever done more for the South than the North? Even GMB, when he was the PTF chairman, was'nt that when he constructed most of the Federal Express Roads in the North? What percentage did he construct in the South?Hope that when GEJ comes back this time, he would have learnt his lessons.

These achievements should count as a soothing balm if the president is seen by the locals as a president who genuinely cares for them.The president's campaign strategy that will not disabuse the mind of the locals in North West is politically ineffective. My advice to the president is to deal directly and address the priorities and demands of the locals and ignore the politics side of it so that posterity will judge him.Shikena