President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said his
administration has fought corruption more than other past administrations in the country, asking the opposition All progressives Congress, APC, to tell Nigerians how it would tackle corruption if voted into
power in the country. Jonathan spoke in Enugu while flagging off his second term re-election and governorship campaign at the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium. The South East flag- off rally attracted a large crowd of
party supporters from the five south east states of Anambra, Abia, Imo, Enugu and Ebonyi States.

The President, however, tongue lashed the presidential
candidate of the APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, saying
that the former head of state wanted power to throw
people into jail as was the case in 1983, when he threw
into jail, Igbo politicians like the former Vice President,
Alex Ekwueme, the former governors of old Anambra and Imo States, Chief Jim Nwobodo and late Chief Sam
Mbakwe respectively among others out of sheer
wickedness. His words, ‘’Chief Alex Ekwueme; Sam Mbakwe
were all thrown to jail by Buhari. Chief Jim Nwobodo
was jailed 301 years before the successive
administration released him. Corruption is fought by
blocking loop h***s where public funds are looted
from. “We are fighting corruption through Information
Commun-ication Technology,ICT. Our method is
technology driven. We have changed the way we do
government businesses. The fertiliser distribution
scheme, which go directly to farmers is a key example. “We have also modernised the system of salary
disbursement through technology. This is one of the
ways we are fighting corruption in the system. You do
not fight it by locking people in Kirikiri and closing
down their businesses. That is why the economy
collapsed under Buhari’s watch.

GENDER FRIENDLY:


Jonathan urged women in the country to vote for his
re-election, saying that Buhari never appointed a
woman in his cabinet as military head of state. He however, commended the Peoples Democratic
Party,PDP, governorship candidate in Enugu State
Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for towing his line by being a gender
friendly governorship candidate. Cecelia Ezeilo is the running mate of Ugwuanyi. “Buhari never appointed any woman into his cabinet.
Our women had all the qualifications and experience at
that time. If you make the mistake of voting him, you
will not be liberated. You will remain in the kitchen and
die,’’ he said.

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT:


Jonathan enumerated the achievements of his
administration in the south-east geopolitical zone
especially Enugu State to include the upgrading of the
Akanu-Ibiam Airport to an international status saying
that the airport would commence full international
operations in 18 months. “I visited the international terminal as I landed. I told
the contractor handling the project to shorten the
completion time so that our people who are commerce
driven can fly to any part of the world from Enugu. We
have flagged off the Enugu-Port Harcourt inter-city
passenger mass transit train quiet recently. “We have completed over 2,000 kilometres of roads in
the region and built irrigation dams that will boost
agriculture in the area. Our auto-mobile policies have
been friendly that is why Innosson and ANAMMCO are
now rearing up their heads; assembling cars in the
state.

PVCs:

The President assured Nigerians that the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, had been directed
to issue Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs, to all
registered voters nationwide to enable all voters
exercise their franchise during the forthcoming election.

SOURCE:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/jonathan-to-buhari-you-do-not-fight-corruption-by-throwing-people-into-jail/