The North Needs President Jonathan More Than Gen Buhari

The northern Nigeria has been known to be the volatile region to violence in Nigeria and with the increasing insecurities in the North East, where some political leaders are benefiting from the violence. When a nation utilizes their youth in the right direction they are more developed. The energy and brightness of the minds of youth act as torch-bearers for a nation. Politicians who fail to make use of youths in the right direction lag behind in every department of life.

President Jonathan has identified the cause of violence and insecurities in the north and with the support and vote of the north in the coming election, Northern Nigerians are standing up against killing of their people, using their youths to cause violence in the country and will say goodbye to insecurities and violence in the area. This will also make northern Nigerians to show their liberation by not voting because of ethnicity, their land will not be used as a violent tool in killing their people to distract government and make some politicians benefits from it.

Identifying and providing solutions to insecurities in the north: President Jonathan's administration has identified the problems in the Northern part of the country and in the military in combating the insurgency.

President Jonathan's administration is equipping the Nigerian military with equipment that will make them eradicate insurgency, discipline of military officers who are corrupt and have been sabotaging the insurgency and gathering of intelligent information which will be useful to identify their sponsors.

Lack of education, poverty, unemployment and other factors have been the major problem, which allows the people of the region to be vulnerable to be used as tools in causing violence and insecurity in the north. President Jonathan's administration in the northern region, started the Almajiri System Education, where 150 boys schools have been built across the north, new secondary schools have been created and training teachers college, New 9 universities have been created in the northern part of the country by president Jonathan's administration to address the lack of access to education in the part of the country.

Direct form of job which employed 2.7 million people in the country, over 2 million of the beneficiaries are in the north, the direct distribution of fertilizers in the country to farmers was benefitted by millions of farmers in the northern part of the country.

The Presidential initiative on afforestation was launched in 11 states in the Nothern part of the country with up to 80 KM of 15 row green belt.

Polio has been eradicated in the northern part of the country and the country in general in the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Infrastructure and power has been improved in the northern state with the launch of hydro-power project in Zungeru, mambilla and dam project in Kahimbila. The railway project in the north which will make it easy for the northern people to move their products and services easily to any part of the country and the construction of Kano-Maiduguri highway, which is the longest stretch in the country and Abuja-Lokoja road.

The unity of Nigeria lies in the upcoming election, we can support President Jonathan to end corruption, insecurities and all the challenges the country is facing.

LET THE NORTH STAND UP AGAINST VIOLENCE OF THEIR PEOPLE BY VOTING FOR PRESIDENT JONATHAN AND SAYING NO TO USING VIOLENCE TO SEEK SUPPORT OF VOTERS.