President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR On the
Occasion of His Declaration of Intent to Run for
the 2015 Presidential Elections under the Platform
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Eagle
Square, Abuja
1. Four years ago, precisely September 18, 2010; I
stood in this Eagle Square, to offer myself for
election as the President of our beloved country on
the platform of our great party; the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
2. Seven months after that declaration, you
elected me to lead this country with overwhelming
support from all parts of our Nation. I remain
grateful for the trust you reposed in me to lead
our Nation through uncommon challenges in our
march of progress as a united and democratic
country.
3. Over the years, the Almighty God has made it
possible for me to develop a bond with you and I
am grateful for your support and understanding
in the difficult periods we have journeyed
through....Full Speech after the cut....
4. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, our
stewardship has not been without challenges. We
have had to deal with the wave of insurgency
that has swept through some parts of our dear
country. Only yesterday, Government Science
Secondary School in Yobe State was bombed by
insurgents, killing our promising young children
who were seeking education to build the country
and support their parents. Many Nigerians have
lost their lives and property to these mindless
killings. Let me crave the indulgence of all present
here to stand up to observe a minutes silence in
honour of these young lads who lost their lives.
Clearly, this has cast a dark cloud on our Nation
but we will surely win the war against terror. A
number of young men and women have been
kidnapped by these criminal elements including
our daughters from Chibok. We will free our
daughters and defeat terrorism.
5. We are equipping the armed forces and
deploying special forces to engage the terrorist
and end this senseless war. We must protect our
country. We must save our people. I will do
everything humanly possible to end this criminal
violence in our Nation.
6. To ensure the long term stability and
development of the affected areas, government
has launched three programmes: The Presidential
Initiative for the North East, the Victim Support
Fund and the Safe School Initiative. The
Presidential Initiative for the Northeast is focused
on improving infrastructure and economic growth
in the region. The Safe School Initiative is centred
on creating a safe environment to encourage our
children in the communities to acquire education.
The Victim Support Fund, a partnership with the
Private Sector, has raised about 60 billion Naira,
which will help to empower and rehabilitate
victims of terror. I promise the victims of these
dastardly acts that we will continue to stand with
you.
7. I am grateful to all Nigerians for standing with
me.
8. Let me also thank the leaders and elders of our
great party, the Peoples Democratic Party, for the
opportunity you have given to me to serve our
country, Nigeria.
9. I am overwhelmed by the trust, confidence and
support of the various organs of our party, the
Board of Trustees, the National Caucus, the
National Executive Committee, the National
Working Committee, the PDP Governors Forum,
members of the PDP Caucuses of the National
Assembly, and others.
10. This day affords me the opportunity to
continue the conversation of development we
started together.
11. Infrastructure has been a major focus area of
my administration and so, we pursued the power
sector reform to this point of irreversible progress.
Nigeria has undertaken a most transparent and
corruption free bidding process, attracting global
commendation. The on-going 450MW Azura Power
Plant in Edo State is a testimony to the success of
this transformation.
12. We have also resumed development of our
Hydro-Power potential, with the construction of
the 700MW Zungeru Hydro-Power Plant, while
construction work on the 3,050MW Mambilla
Hydro-Power Plant is about to take off.
13. Our power generation and distribution
companies have now been privatized. We are
firmly on the road to guaranteed regular power
supply in the months ahead. This our bold move,
is paying off!
14. We are committed to environmental protection
and conservation and reducing vulnerability to
climate change. In this regard, we have embarked
on a number of projects across the country. Of
particular note is the African Great Green Wall
Programme, where we have released about 16
billion naira for implementation. The project will
create a green belt across 11 states from Kebbi to
Borno.
15. In the past three and half years, the water
sector has witnessed unprecedented improvement.
Access to potable water is now 67%, up from 58%
in 2010, while sanitation coverage is 41%, from
32% within the same period.
16. Major developments in water include the
completion of 37 Dams and rehabilitation of 10,
with several others on-going construction. The
flagship Kashimbila Multipurpose Dam which is
being built to contain flood from Lake Nyos, is
now at 90% completion. We have also completed
about 5,000 rural and semi urban water schemes.
17. We are reforming the National Urban Water
supply programmes in 12 states, with 385 formal
and informal irrigation projects, covering a total
land area of 118000 ha, cultivated mostly by
small holder farmers. This has yielded over 3
million metric tons of assorted grains and
vegetables, with a market value of about 45
billion naira.
18. Before the advent of this administration, the
Railway system was practically dead. Today, we
have revived the rail sector. The narrow gauge
line from Lagos to Kano has been rehabilitated
with improved coaches providing regular services.
The rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri
rail line is progressing with the Port Harcourt-
Gombe segment as well as the branch line from
Kafanchan to Kaduna expected to be completed
and fully operational by December 2014.
19. Already, work on the Abuja-Kaduna standard
gauge rail line, is progressing. The tracks of the
rail line will be completed by December this year
2014. Upon completion of the project in the first
quarter of 2015, it will be possible for Nigerians to
live in Kaduna and work in Abuja. The Itape-
Ajaokuta-Wari standard gauge line has attained
an advanced stage, with the track completely
laid. We hope to commence full operation before
the end of 2015.
20. Other segments of the new standard gauge
speed train network are planned with contract
already awarded for the Lagos –Ibadan Segment.
There will be more of such modern and faster rail
connections in the coming years. Already,
discussions are now at advanced stage, for the
Coastal rail line that will traverse through 10
states, from Lagos through the South-South and
South-East, all the way to Calabar.
21. My administration has successfully completed
the dredging of the lower River Niger from Baro in
Niger State to Warri in in Delta State. The
cheering news is that over 6.7 million passengers
and over 1.6 million tonnes of cargo have been
moved through this channel in less than three
years.
22. I am happy to also report that our ports now
operate 24 hour service, which has led to the
reduction of clearing time and improved efficiency.
23. When I assumed office in 2010, out of the
35,000km of federal roads nationwide, only about
5,000km were motorable. Today, that number has
increased to about 25,000km. We expect to
complete the remaining 10,000km in three years
while initiating new ones.
24. I made a commitment to build two new major
bridges across the River Niger and River Benue.
Today, the new bridge over the River Benue,
connecting Loko in Nassarawa State to Oweto in
Benue State has reached an advance stage of
completion, while work has commenced on the
Second Niger Bridge.
25. Beyond these, my administration has
concluded plans to re-commence the construction
of Bodo-Bonny Road with three major bridges on
the alignment that will link the Island of Bonny
with Rivers mainland.
26. Preliminary works have started on my
administration’s planned re-construction and
expansion of the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport Road in Lagos to a world
class entry point into our country. Only a few
months ago, work started on the dualization of
Kano-Katsina Road. While many Nigerians are
celebrating the marked improvements on our
roads, I want to assure that it will get even better
as we move forward.
27. In the pursuit of an integrated transportation
system, we embarked on the construction of five
new Airport Terminal Buildings and Air-field
facilities. We are also re-constructing existing
ones. The re-construction upon completion, will
lead to improved passenger processing, increased
cargo handling capacity and enhanced Air-field
facilities that meet international standard and
improves safety. These efforts have been met with
global acknowledgement including the attainment
and retention of the FAA Category One status.
28. In housing, we signed the National Housing
Policy to kick-start the framework for providing
more affordable homes for our people. We have
also expanded the National Housing Fund to
accommodate more Nigerians. We have started a
revolution in the housing sector with the start of
the Nigerian Mortgage and Refinanced Company
(NMRC) a new initiative of my administration,
that will enable more citizens in the lower income
bracket to become first time home owners.
29. Our partners such as the World Bank group
are supporting this with US300million dollars
interest free credit, while my administration will
back it with over 100billion naira in bonds. We are
already processing 66,000 mortgage applications
for our young people. We have amended the
PENCOM Act to enable the pension funds invest in
housing sector bonds. This will create a boom in
the housing sector.
30. In the Federal Capital Territory, we are rapidly
building a befitting National Capital by
expanding and providing new infrastructure,
developing ten new districts and Satellite Towns to
cater for the ever increasing population. In no
distant future, you will be able to arrive at the
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and proceed
to the city using the Abuja Light Rail. In addition
to providing durable health, educational and
transportation services, we are also collaborating
with Organized Labour to build functional,
affordable and social housing in Abuja.
31. Other critical capital developments that are
being packaged by this Administration include the
development of the Ultra-Modern World Trade
Centre, the Abuja Town Centre, the Jabi Lake
Comprehensive Centre, the Centenary City and the
Land Swap Districts. This private sector driven
infrastructural development will positively change
the skyline of the city and provide the required
office and residential accommodation, shopping
and recreation as well as tourism and
entertainment facilities of the FCT.
32. In our determination to encourage much
greater participation of Nigerians in the oil and
gas industry, one of the first actions I took, was
the enactment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas
Industry Content Development Act. As a result of
this law, indigenous Nigerian participation levels,
in upstream and downstream activities of the oil
and gas industry have increased by over 45%,
thereby increasing employment opportunities for
our youth.
33. We have also succeeded in eliminating the
long queues that previously characterised our
filling stations, through regular and sustained
product supply.
34. Gas infrastructure to ensure adequate Gas to
Power and Gas to Industry, is being aggressively
put in place. Over 450km of gas pipelines have
been installed over the last 3years. Another
2,000km is planned over the next 4years. Critical
petrochemical and fertilizer facilities have
commenced including the gas industrial park in
Delta State, for which I am scheduled to perform
the ground-breaking this Friday. This will create
millions of jobs and make Nigeria a regional hub.
35. In addition, as a result of government
favourable policies the private sector is investing
over 12 billion dollars in the petrochemical sector,
over the next 4years. This will surely create
millions of jobs for our people.
36. In terms of gas supply, we have grown from
less than 500 million cubic feet per day, 4years
ago, to about 1.5 billion cubic feet per day
currently. Our goal is to attain 4 billion cubic feet
per day, over the next 4years.
37. We have changed the face of agriculture. We
moved agriculture away from a development
Programme to agriculture as a business. My vision
is to create wealth for our people through
agriculture.
38. We have focused on encouraging the private
sector to boost investments in the agricultural
sector. As a result, the number of seed companies
rose from five to eighty in the past three years.
Private sector investment in the agricultural sector
expanded by $ US 5.6 billion across the
Agricultural value chain.
39. We ended decades of corruption in the fertilizer
and seed sectors. We developed a transparent and
efficient system of reaching farmers directly with
subsidized farm inputs. Before our reforms,
fertilizer procurement and distribution took from
the needy and gave to the greedy. We restored
dignity back to farmers. Today, 14 million
farmers, of which 2 million are women, access
fertilizers with their mobile phones, through an e-
wallet system. Nigeria is the first country in the
world to develop an e-wallet system to reach
farmers with subsidized farm inputs on their
mobile phones. Several African countries are now
borrowing this transparent and efficient e-wallet
system for their own countries.
40. Our national food production expanded by an
additional 21 million metric tons between 2011 and
2014, a record, exceeding our set target of 20
million metric tons set for 2015. The Dangote
Group, has committed to invest $US 1 billion in
commercial rice production and processing. With
all these developments, we are expected to be an
exporter of rice in the next five years. This will be
a new dawn!
41. The benefits are showing on our food imports.
Our food import bill has declined from 1.1 trillion
Naira in 2009 to 684 billion Naira by December
2013, even with our increasing population, a
reduction of 40%.
42. Nigeria met its Millennium Development Goal
One on reducing hunger and extreme poverty, two
years ahead of 2015 target set by the United
Nations, and was given an award by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations.
43. To sustain this trend, we are encouraging
young graduates through the Nagropreneurs
Programme to go into commercial Agriculture. We
are also encouraging our students in Post Primary
Schools to embrace commercial Agriculture through
the National School Agriculture Programme.
44. My dear people, corruption remains a big
challenge in our national life. It corrodes our
efforts at development and at motivating
competence in critical sectors of our national
growth. We have eradicated it in the agricultural
sector and we will surely eradicate it in other
sectors of our economy.
45. Going forward, my focus is to continue to
reinforce institutions, systems, and processes to
tackle corruption, and also to bring to justice
those that perpetrate corruption. Through the
Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information
System (IPPIS), we have weeded out 56,000 ghost
workers from the Federal Civil Service, saving 162
billion naira.
46. I have directed ICPC to bring the perpetrators
of this criminal act to book. Let this be very clear,
public officers must live by example, fully
accounting for the national trust and resources in
their care.
47. In our journey to progress, knowledge is
indispensable. Knowledge is power! This is why
my administration established 14 new Universities
out of which 12 are conventional and two are
specialized Police and Maritime Universities. Under
my watch, every state in Nigeria, now has a
Federal University.
48. In addition, over 500billion naira have been
spent, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund
(TETFund) and the special NEEDS assessment fund
on various projects to increase access and improve
the quality of infrastructure at the tertiary level of
our education system.
49. To provide equal access and opportunities in
education and ensure that no Nigerian child is left
behind, we have established and equipped 150
Almajiri Schools across the Northern states and the
Out-of-School-Children Programme including
Specialized Boys and Girls Schools across the
country.
50. Fellow Nigerians, our country was faced with
a major National security, humanitarian, and
economic threat in the form of the Ebola Virus
Disease, which arrived in the country on July 20,
2014, by way of a foreign national, Mr Patrick
Sawyer.

51. Realizing the imminent threat, I declared a
national emergency, pulling states, local and
federal government into action as well as
individual Nigerians to combat this disease.
Without the quick action of patriotic Nigerians in
the First Consultant Hospital, as well as the co-
operation of Lagos and Rivers State, where the
disease occurred, working with the Federal
Ministry of Health and the co-operation of all
Nigerians we could not have succeeded in
overcoming this deadly disease. Fellow Nigerians
we stopped Ebola together.
52. Just as we stopped Ebola, we are on our way
to eradicating the Polio Virus in our country. We
have reduced the incident of new Polio Virus from
300 in 2010, to 6 today.
53. My brothers and sisters, to encourage
entrepreneurship and self-reliance among our
teeming graduates, we have developed creative
opportunities for enterprise for our young people.
54. Programmes such as YouWIN, the Graduate
Internship Scheme, the Nagropreneurs Initiative,
the 220 Billion Naira Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises Development Fund and the 3 Billion
Naira Grant to Nollywood are empowering our
graduates, the creative industry and other young
people to start up their own businesses and
employ others.
55. We have supported the growth of industry
through policy and action. We launched The
National industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP), and
the National Enterprise Development Programme
as key drivers to bring about our desires in the
industrial sectors and to diversify our economy.
Our new National Automobile Policy is
transforming Nigeria into a vibrant hub for the
automobile industry. Our own Innoson Motors is
producing world standard vehicles, and Nissan,
Hyundai, and Kia, have set up factories in Nigeria
and are employing thousands of our people.
56. Our support for cement production is
unprecedented. We have increased our installed
capacity from 16.5 million metric tons per annum
in 2011 to 39.5 million metric tons per annum in
2014. Nigeria is now exporting cement. We are
moving forward! We must produce what we
consume and consume what we produce.
57. Our efforts to create an enabling environment
for job creation in different sectors of the economy
including the MSME sector, agriculture, housing
and manufacturing have yielded results. Between
the third quarter of 2012, when we started
tracking jobs created and the end of 2013, 1.9
million jobs were created. To deepen our success in
this area, I have created a Presidential Jobs
Creation Board headed by the Vice President with
the mandate to create at least two million jobs a
year.
58. My brothers and sisters, our economy is
heading in the right direction and our efforts are
yielding positive results. Our economy continues to
grow at the rate of 6 to 7 percent annually, one
of the highest in the world. Our country is now
the top investment destination and the largest
economy in Africa, with a GDP of 80trillion naira
(510billion dollars) as well as the 26th largest
economy in the world.
59. As part of its efforts to support inclusive
growth and economic development in Nigeria
through the CBN, my administration has created
and disbursed the sum of 200billion naira via the
Commercial Agric and Credit scheme, 300billion
naira Power and Aviation fund, 220billion naira
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Fund, as well
as 300 billion naira rail sector refinancing facilities
at single digit interest rate. We will continue to
deepen the reforms in the financial sector, in order
to sustain the growth of our economy and uplift
our people from poverty to prosperity.
60. Dear Compatriots, I promised as President,
that we would sanitize and restore integrity in our
electoral process, by ensuring that our votes are
not only counted, but truly count. We have gone
to great length to ensure transparent, free, fair,
and credible elections. Elections have been
conducted across the country with local and
international election observers testifying to their
transparency.
61. On the international scene, we have advanced
our regional, continental and global objectives.
We have strengthened our relationships with our
neighbours and in many instances supported them
to protect their democracy, security and stability.
We are serving for a second time within a period
of 4 years at the United Nations Security Council.
This is unprecedented in our Nation’s history. My
brothers and sister, this is a growing attestation
of our country’s growing influence.
62. In the first quarter of this year, our country
celebrated its centenary. To prepare the nation for
the challenges of the next one hundred years, I
convened a National Conference where
recommendations and resolutions were reached
towards a more perfect union. We shall implement
the report.
63. Four years ago, I made a commitment to
advance the rise and rise of womanhood. Today, I
am glad that we have made remarkable progress
in this regard, trusting in the potential of our
women and reaping from their dedication and
ingenuity. I believe that any nation that ignores
womanhood cannot achieve its full potential. It is
in this regard that I ensured that women were
given more opportunities in government, and I
have not been disappointed.
64. Specifically, I doubled the percentage of
women in the cabinet and gave them more
challenging assignments.
65. The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), is now
admitting female cadets as regular combatants
and it is now possible for a woman to rise
through the ranks to the peak in military service,
and become a full general.
66. We must continue to sustain the banner of
freedom and justice that we have held high in our
country. I am proud to say that there are no
political prisoners in Nigeria today. No Nigerian
has been driven to exile and no one will be, under
my watch.
67. It is in furtherance of a peaceful, participatory
and inclusive democracy that I signed the Freedom
of Information (FOI) Bill into law, to expand the
frontiers of our fundamental freedom.
68. Let me re-affirm that under a Jonathan
Presidency, your views, no matter how freely
expressed, will not send you to prison or into
exile.
69. I am convinced that I have kept my pact with
Nigerians, and it is now time to look to the future.
With your tremendous support, we have
collectively done so much in the last three and
half years, but to take our country to the next
level, there is still more to be done.
70. History has shown that the path of honour for
any true leader is not to walk away from his
people in moments of challenges. We must stand
together in adversity and overcome all threats to
our development. We must defend our future, for
the sake of our children.
71. So many things have inspired me in the
journey to this moment. I want to appreciate
ordinary Nigerians, especially young people, for
the solidarity shown to me by contributing their
meagre resources to enable me arrive at this
point.
72. I appreciate the kind gesture of the Cattle
Breeders Union, Miyetti Allah, and the Market
Women Association, who encouraged me by
coming together to contribute to the purchase of
my Nomination form.
73. In the same vein, I am touched by the National
Association of Widows who also encouraged me
with their widow’s mite.
74. This labour of love, from ordinary Nigerians,
has increased my appreciation of your solidarity,
my trust in our joint destiny, and all we have
achieved together these past three and half years.
75. Therefore, after seeking the face of God, in
quiet reflection with my family and having
listened to the call of our people nationwide to
run, I, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, have
accepted to re-present myself, on the platform of
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, for re-election as
the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in
the 2015 general elections.
76. Democracy is a collective action, energized by
individual responsibility. Your mandate at this
time will inspire in me the strength to complete
the good work we have started together.
77. My dear people of Nigeria, we must complete
the task of ensuring that we lift the poor out of
the depth of want, and place their feet firmly on
the ladder of prosperity.
78. In this election season, I appeal to all of you,
not to harm, maim or kill; and not to incite
violence of any kind. We must never forget our
common bond, one people from the womb of one
Nigeria. Again I say: My ambition to serve you is
not worth the blood of any Nigerian. I remain
committed to this principle of non-violence.
79. If you believe that we must build a country
that works for all, where the strong lift up the
weak, and not trample upon them, where the vote
of every citizen determines who governs or
represents you, where the democratic space is open
to all citizens to fulfil their aspirations,
irrespective of the circumstance of birth, your
brother, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan stands
ready to continue in service to you.
80. My brothers and sisters, we cannot go back to
the old ways! Our railways were allowed to rot in
neglect, we have revived and are modernising
them.
81. We cannot go back to the old ways! Our road
infrastructure collapsed. We are reconstructing,
and expanding federal roads across the country.
82. We cannot go back to the old ways! Our
airport terminal buildings were dilapidated and
our airspace unsafe. We are fixing this.
83. We cannot go back to the old ways! Our
agricultural practices did not benefit our farmers
and our people. Fertilizer distribution was a major
source of fraud and we were importing food more
than our budget can carry. Now we are on our
way to self-sufficiency in food production.
84. Do you want to go back to the old ways?
85. We cannot go back to the old ways, where
there were long queues at our filling stations due
to irregular supply of products and our people
were exploited.
86. We cannot go back to the old ways, when
women and youths were denied opportunities in
government and in responsible positions.
87. Do you want to go back to the old ways?
88. We cannot go back to the old ways! We had
skewed distribution of tertiary institutions.
Whereas some states had more than one degree
awarding institution, some had none. We have
now made sure all states have at least one
Federal University.
89. We cannot go back to the old ways! Our
economy is now the largest in Africa. Once, we
were virtually importing everything, now we are
exporting several products, including cement.
90. We cannot go back to the old ways! In 2009,
average life expectancy was 47 years, by the end
of 2013, it was 52 years. Some of our hospitals
now perform open heart surgeries, kidney
transplants and other challenging operations as
we reposition our health service to end decades of
medical tourism that drains our scarce resources.
91. We cannot go back to the old ways! Together,
in unity, we overcame Ebola, and in the process
demonstrated the strength of the Nigerian spirit.
And together, united, we must maintain our
vigilance.
92. Do you want to go back to the old ways?
93. We cannot go back to the old ways where
individual freedoms were trampled upon and
citizens were locked up for expressing their views
or criticising government.
94. Do you want to go back to the old ways?
95. We cannot go back to the old ways! We must
continue to have free and fair elections. We cannot
go back to the era where ballot box snatching and
stuffing became the norm. Where your votes never
counted.
96. Certainly, we cannot!
97. We have to move forward! Only forward!!, my
dear people, Forward!!!
98. In moving forward, I see a Nigeria that thirsts
for progress with children across the nation, eager
for knowledge and safely in schools!
99. I see a Nigeria where all who have taken up
arms, would again embrace peace!
100. I see a Nigeria where our women can aspire
to any heights, without hindrance!
101. I see a Nigeria where the flames in the Eagles
will rekindle, and the Falcons soaring higher in
victory!
102. I see a Nigeria where the children of
Mustapha, and Christopher, Ade and Ada, Timi
and Bunmi, Nnamdi and Namadi, do not go
hungry!
103. I see a Nigeria where all, no matter their
beliefs, live in peace and harmony!
104. I see a Nigeria where the green passport is
accorded a royal reception the world over!
105. I see a Nigeria where one day the next
generation will take us to outer space.
106. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen,
leadership is about staying focused to achieve
goals despite challenges. I have been faced with
many challenges since coming to office as
President. With your support and encouragement,
we have stayed the course.
107. We are succeeding, against all odds. For the
young Nigerian child, who grew up in the rural
area, just like me, we are expanding opportunities
and giving them hope. For the market woman, we
are expanding opportunities. For our young
entrepreneurs, we are expanding opportunities. For
the right of our people to vote and for their voices
to be heard, we are expanding opportunities. For
Nigerians to have the right to free speech, we are
expanding opportunities. For the job seekers,
against all odds, we are expanding opportunities.
108. While serving our people, I will always
ensure the rule of law. I do not intimidate, I
expand the democratic space. I give voice to the
voiceless and uphold the weak, for the nation
belongs to us all. Fellow Nigerians, as we build
our democracy, leaders must show temperance at
all times. That is a virtue, one which I treasure,
and will always uphold.
109. My people, Nigeria is destined for greatness.
Today, here at Eagle Square, I say to Nigeria,
that working together in love, in strength and in
faith, we will build a nation of one people, united
in purpose and in action.
110. Fellow Nigerians, it is forward ever! We must
put our hopes to work! Together, we will realize
our collective destiny.
111. Thank you!!
112. God bless Nigeria!!

Source: http://www.jatmajacobi.com/2014/11/gejonemoretime-president-jonathans.html?m=1

Wow! I couldn't have done a better job.

Now, what I would expect the opposition to do is to take their time, do a clinical analysis and research and then draft their own position on each and every point outlined. Any thing short of that is totally unacceptable.