Buhari’ll always be contender –Minister


From ROMANUS UGWU, Abuja
The Federal Government has reassured the

relatives of the dead and victims of the
Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment
stampede not to lose hope in securing
automatic employment into the agency. It
blamed the delay on administrative bottleneck.
Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, who gave
the assurance in a chat with journalists in
Abuja, said the government was trying to
formalise the employment such that it would
not constitute any problem to the beneficiaries
in the future.
Asked for an update on the promise from
President Goodluck Jonathan shortly after the
incident, the minister said: “At this point, I can
only say that the commitment of the Federal
Government to the implementation of the
directive of Mr. President on the victims of the
Immigration recruitment tragedy is on course
and total.

“Arrangements have been completed to ensure
the implementation of the automatic
employment of three relations of the dead
victims and the injured hospitalised survivors.
We will as soon as practicable implement the
directive.

“What happened that seemed like a delay is
the fact that the directive has to be situated
along administrative processes so as to have a
seamless engagement of such officers that
may not have the burden of having to render
explanations in the future if they were not
followed through in line with laid down
regulations. However, I want to assure you that
the directive is certainly one that must be
implemented,” he assured.
About 21 job applicants died on March 15 this
year during the recruitment nationwide.
Following public outcry, the Senate raised a
committee to probe the incident, the report
was being awaited nine months on.
He equally spoke on whether Gen
Mohammadu Buhari is threat to President
Jonathan in the forthcoming Presidential
election stating emphatically that: “Gen Buhari
will never be a threat to President Goodluck
Jonathan’s re-election. I said this with due
respect to the person of Gen Buhari, but it is
very difficult in our democracy to suddenly
wake up from the wrong side of the bed to
rewrite history.”

“From 1999 till today, certain persons have
become permanent candidates for particular
elections and as long as you remain a
permanent candidate in elections, you will
continue to be a permanent loser.

“No matter the language you use in bringing it
about, the fact is that a winner will never
continue to be a permanent candidate since
our democracy is tenured. No candidate can
contest for more than 16 years in the case of
Gen Buhari and not be permanent loser. If he
is a candidate for more than 16 years, the
tendency is that he will still lose. The person
who has continued to win will continue to win,”
he quipped.

Defending the candidacy of the incumbent,
Moro said: “In President Goodluck, we have a
candidate who since assumption of office has
left nobody in doubt about his passion for
developing the Nigeria project and take the
country to the next level of development.”

“Under his watch, Nigeria has recorded
tremendous achievements inspect of the
teething challenges facing the country
especially security challenges. It takes a man of
vision and focus to refuse to be distracted by
the challenges of insurrection and insurgency
on the land to record modest achievements in
transforming the country.

“From whatever angle we look at the country,
certain modest achievements have been
recorded. Whether it is in railway, aviation,
education, road transport, name it. The truth is
that Nigeria has moved from the decay this
government inherited to the level we are
today. I can assure you that any person
contesting against Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, in
2015 presidential election definitely has a
herculean task to unseat him.

“Nigerians have seen the manifestation of
good governance and the direction the country
is going under President Jonathan is the right
way to go in terms of national development.
Any upset in an electoral process this time is
certainly taking Nigeria to the past and dark
days to start all over again.

“Now that the contestants are known, it is
going to be PDP and other parties. They made
it so by coming together as political parties in a
merger against the PDP. While Gen Buhari will
represent other parties, President Jonathan
will represent the PDP and I have no iota of
doubt that most Nigerians are going to vote for
Dr. Jonathan.

“He is certainly going to win the election in
2015 because everybody is mobilised and
sensitised. I can tell you that every foot soldier
of the PDP will go to the trenches during and
after this festive period. The outcome of it will
be the re-election of President Jonathan,
starting from February 14, 2015 when the
general election will be conducted,” he said.

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Useless government led by a buffoon always having excuses for every and all failures!

“What happened that seemed like a delay is
the fact that the directive has to be situated
along administrative processes so as to have a
seamless engagement of such officers that
may not have the burden of having to render
explanations in the future if they were not
followed through in line with laid down
regulations.

A useless government that keeps giving excuses. If it is to give employment to your children and children of your cronies,it would be as easy as ABC. Now its time to compensate the family of those who died in the NIS recruitment,Abba Moro is yarning dust.
The blood of the innocent who died in the NIS recruitment will continue to haunt Abba Moro,Jonathan and PDP.