By Reno Omokri: My dear brothers and sisters,
a number of you have asked me, particularly on
Social Media, why I think President Goodluck
Jonathan deserves your vote. I will use this
space to answer that question headlong and
unequivocally, because I believe with every
fiber of my being that reelecting President
Jonathan is the best course of action that
Nigerians can take if we do not want to go
back to the old ways in which the government
dictated to us rather than related to us…
|| Nigerians want to know what a candidate
will do for them. They do not want to listen to
candidates bicker like motor park touts. Even
those that do not support the President or
the PDP have at least heard of the
Transformation Agenda. Have you heard of
the opposition’s agenda?
Everything about the emergence of President
Jonathan as the candidate of the PDP shows
his party and it’s candidate as the only truly
national candidate. The National Convention in
the Federal Capital Territory, which is known as
the ‘Center of Unity’ was auspicious and
befitting as the PDP is the only political party
that projects one united and indivisible Nigeria.
Nigerians can take pride in the PDP and its pan
Nigerian credentials. The party does not have
regional bases. The whole nation is its base.
The ruling has a unique ability to unite as a
party that goes on to unite Nigeria as a nation.
The PDP is the largest party in Africa and under
this banner, we have grown our economy to the
point where it is now the largest economy in
Africa proving that as the PDP grows stronger,
Nigeria grows stronger.
And with all due respect, the choice between
the PDP’s candidate, President Goodluck
Jonathan and the opposition’s candidate,
General Muhammadu Buhari is clear.
Lagosians who are today escaping Lagos
traffic via the air conditioned Goodluck train
must be under no illusion that this service just
appeared from nowhere. No. It came about via
a visionary long term plan whose ultimate goal
when fully implanted will see a Lagos-Ibadan
High Speed metro line that will enable people
live in Ibadan and work in Lagos. The contract
was signed in August 2012 for $1.5 billion and
the management of the Chinese Firm CCECC
has mobilized to site.
The project itself, being part of the Interstate
Rail Project, has been listed by KPMG as one of
the world’s top 100 infrastructure projects!
This is a fulfillment of the idea that Alhaji Lateef
Kayode Jakande had way back in 1982-3 but
which was delayed when the military thought
they had murdered that idea by canceling the
project. But that project has been given new life
today by the President Goodluck Jonathan
administration because as Thomas Sankara
said “you cannot kill ideas”.
Some people erroneously think that President
Jonathan will not do well in the 2015 election in
Katsina State, but the people of Katsina will
vote for President Jonathan because he built
the only Federal University in Katsina state as
well as the only 6 Almajiri schools in that state.
Before the ascension of the President to power,
Katsina and 11 other states had no Federal
Universities.!
The 2015 election is about records. The
President has his record and the opposition
have theirs.
The days of selling a candidate based on his
ethnicity, region and religion must go forever.
2015 must be about issues, records and ideas!
I, Reno Omokri, am proud to say that President
Jonathan has never publicly or privately called
for violence or bloodshed.
President Jonathan’s has bequeathed a good
Human Right Record to Nigeria. No political
Prisoners exist in Nigeria. No one is imprisoned
for their views under President Jonathan. What
is the opposition’s Human Right record?
When President Jonathan took office in 2010, it
used to take an average of 7-8 hours to go
from Benin to Lagos. Today, after the
reconstruction (bot repair) of the Benin-Ore
road, that same journey can be done in 3 hours
and the President sent the Coordinating
Minister for the Economy, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, to undertake the journey and
verify the Estimated Travel Time on that road.
Some people say the opposition is coming to
fight corruption and I ask them if they have
seen the latest Corruption Perception Index
released by Transparency International 2
weeks ago?
Under President Jonathan, Nigeria progressed
8 points upward in the scale proving that the
President is tackling corruption headlong.
The major progress Nigeria made in the 2014
Corruption Perception Index released by
Transparency International are the result of the
clinical surgical incision made by President
Jonathan at the root of corruption in Nigeria.
Gone are the show trials that glorify style over
substance with media prosecutions that do not
lead to convictions. Under Jonathan, Nigeria
has had more corruption convictions than at
any other time and Transparency International
noticed.
Remember that the Fertilizer Procurement and
Distribution sub sector of the Agricultural sector
was a veritable channel of corruption. Billions
of dollars went into private pockets as
middlemen inflated costs and supplied
adulterated products to farmers. But under
President Jonathan’s watch, 14 million farmers
were registered by the Ministry of Agriculture
who connected them directly to the product
through an e-wallet system by which the
Agriculture ministry send texts to farmers to go
and pick up their fertilizer and seeds direct from
their locality.
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What greater anti corruption credential can you
have than to weed out 50,000 ghost workers
from the Federal Civil service saving Nigeria
almost 350 billion Naira per annum?
As I speak to you, the Abuja-Kaduna Rail
project has been completed, under budget and
under the time frame for which this
administration promised which is as a result of
the new efficiency of the Federal Civil Service
which, through the Federal Ministry of Works,
had been able to supervise the contractors
efficiently because no kickbacks exchanged
hands.
My brothers and sisters, as I unveil my
candidate to you, I am confident not only that
he will win the 2015 Presidential elections
based on his record, I will further call on you
and other well meaning Nigerians, that If you
value human life, please urge INEC to make
candidates take an oath not to incite violence
when they lose in 2015.
I sometimes wonder if the opposition think that
President Jonathan is a time traveller. Why do I
say so? When the opposition says Nigeria’s
problem is Jonathan perhaps they should
explain why we had problems when some of
them where in power. Is it that President
Jonathan travelled back into the past to create
the problems they faced?
They say that President Jonathan has not
achieved anything.
In that case is it that President Jonathan bribed
the UN to say that Nigeria’s average Life
Expectancy rose from 47 to 52 years under his
administration, or he bribed the International
Monetary Fund, IMF, to promote Nigeria to a
Middle Income Nation in 2013 from a Low
Income Nation before that? Or he bribed KPMG
to list our interstate High Speed Rail project as
one of the world’s top 100 infrastructure
projects? Did he compromise the International
Food Policy Research Institute to say that
hunger has reduced in Nigeria under Jonathan
from 16% to 14.1%?
I am not saying that Nigeria’s problems are all
solved. How could they be? It took us 50 years
to get to the point we were before President
Jonathan became president in 2010. Surely it
will take us more than four years to get out of
the problems we faced for half a century.’
But one thing I can say is that we are making
progress under President Jonathan. Elections
are now free and fair and we have bade farewell
to do or die elections.
People can say what they like and be assured
of freedom of speech and freedom after the
speech.
The era of politically motivated assassinations
are gone.
Our railways have been revived, our major
highways have either been revived or are in a
state of being revived.
All those 12 states that did not have
universities prior to Jonathan’s ascension now
have universities.
In today’s Nigeria, you cannot name a state in
Nigeria where Jonathan has not built either a
brand new university, a secondary school, a
hospital or a new road!
President Jonathan knows that a mind is a
terrible thing to waste thus Jonathan built 150
schools for Almajiri. And then some say that he
has only scratched the surface. My response to
them is that if previous administrations had
likewise scratched the surface, we won’t have
12 million children out of the formal education
system in Nigeria!
President Jonathan is building schools in every
state because if disadvantaged kids had
schools in the 80s they would not have grown
up into adults that believe that books are
haram!
Those regions that did not have international
airports before Jonathan now have.
Today, Hyundai, Kia and Nissan have opened
up vehicle manufacturing/assembly plants in
Nigeria even as the government, most
especially the Presidency, is patronizing
Innoson cars as official cars.
Nigerians want stability in their leader. You
won’t marry a person who jumps from
relationship to relationship, so why support a
Presidential aspirant who jumps from party to
party?
From 1999 till today, President Goodluck
Jonathan has remained in one party come rain
come shine. Who in the opposition can make
such a claim?
As elections approach, expect more panic
attacks from a party that spent its time
insulting and criticizing the President instead of
selling its ideas to Nigerians.
They say that they will form a parallel
government if they lose in 2015. Under
Jonathan, elections held in Edo, Anambra,
Ondo, Ekiti and Osun. Which of them were
rigged? Why is APC rejecting 2015 elections in
2014?
My brother and sisters, never allow those who
swore that they were determined to make some
parts of Nigeria “ungovernable” shake you and
turn your focus from the verifiable progress
Nigeria is making under President Goodluck
Jonathan. I can assure that just as he said
when he declared his interest to contest the
2015 Presidential elections, under President
Jonathan’s leadership, Nigeria “will never go
back to the old ways”!
Reno Omokri is the Special Assistant to
President Jonathan on New Media

[quote author=victoronyekwelu post=28936732]By Reno Omokri: My dear brothers and sisters,
a number of you have asked me, particularly on
Social Media, why I think President Goodluck
Jonathan deserves your vote. I will use this
space to answer that question headlong and
unequivocally, because I believe with every
fiber of my being that reelecting President
Jonathan is the best course of action that
Nigerians can take if we do not want to go
back to the old ways in which the government
dictated to us rather than related to us…
|| Nigerians want to know what a candidate
will do for them. They do not want to listen to
candidates bicker like motor park touts. Even
those that do not support the President or
the PDP have at least heard of the
Transformation Agenda. Have you heard of
the opposition’s agenda?
Everything about the emergence of President
Jonathan as the candidate of the PDP shows
his party and it’s candidate as the only truly
national candidate. The National Convention in
the Federal Capital Territory, which is known as
the ‘Center of Unity’ was auspicious and
befitting as the PDP is the only political party
that projects one united and indivisible Nigeria.
Nigerians can take pride in the PDP and its pan
Nigerian credentials. The party does not have
regional bases. The whole nation is its base.
The ruling has a unique ability to unite as a
party that goes on to unite Nigeria as a nation.
The PDP is the largest party in Africa and under
this banner, we have grown our economy to the
point where it is now the largest economy in
Africa proving that as the PDP grows stronger,
Nigeria grows stronger.
And with all due respect, the choice between
the PDP’s candidate, President Goodluck
Jonathan and the opposition’s candidate,
General Muhammadu Buhari is clear.
Lagosians who are today escaping Lagos
traffic via the air conditioned Goodluck train
must be under no illusion that this service just
appeared from nowhere. No. It came about via
a visionary long term plan whose ultimate goal
when fully implanted will see a Lagos-Ibadan
High Speed metro line that will enable people
live in Ibadan and work in Lagos. The contract
was signed in August 2012 for $1.5 billion and
the management of the Chinese Firm CCECC
has mobilized to site.
The project itself, being part of the Interstate
Rail Project, has been listed by KPMG as one of
the world’s top 100 infrastructure projects!
This is a fulfillment of the idea that Alhaji Lateef
Kayode Jakande had way back in 1982-3 but
which was delayed when the military thought
they had murdered that idea by canceling the
project. But that project has been given new life
today by the President Goodluck Jonathan
administration because as Thomas Sankara
said “you cannot kill ideas”.
Some people erroneously think that President
Jonathan will not do well in the 2015 election in
Katsina State, but the people of Katsina will
vote for President Jonathan because he built
the only Federal University in Katsina state as
well as the only 6 Almajiri schools in that state.
Before the ascension of the President to power,
Katsina and 11 other states had no Federal
Universities.!
The 2015 election is about records. The
President has his record and the opposition
have theirs.
The days of selling a candidate based on his
ethnicity, region and religion must go forever.
2015 must be about issues, records and ideas!
I, Reno Omokri, am proud to say that President
Jonathan has never publicly or privately called
for violence or bloodshed.
President Jonathan’s has bequeathed a good
Human Right Record to Nigeria. No political
Prisoners exist in Nigeria. No one is imprisoned
for their views under President Jonathan. What
is the opposition’s Human Right record?
When President Jonathan took office in 2010, it
used to take an average of 7-8 hours to go
from Benin to Lagos. Today, after the
reconstruction (bot repair) of the Benin-Ore
road, that same journey can be done in 3 hours
and the President sent the Coordinating
Minister for the Economy, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, to undertake the journey and
verify the Estimated Travel Time on that road.
Some people say the opposition is coming to
fight corruption and I ask them if they have
seen the latest Corruption Perception Index
released by Transparency International 2
weeks ago?
Under President Jonathan, Nigeria progressed
8 points upward in the scale proving that the
President is tackling corruption headlong.
The major progress Nigeria made in the 2014
Corruption Perception Index released by
Transparency International are the result of the
clinical surgical incision made by President
Jonathan at the root of corruption in Nigeria.
Gone are the show trials that glorify style over
substance with media prosecutions that do not
lead to convictions. Under Jonathan, Nigeria
has had more corruption convictions than at
any other time and Transparency International
noticed.
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Nothing here shows why and how Jonathan will win.