2015: Jonathan promises increased women and youth participation in governance


President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, declared that his administration, if returned to office, would ensure that more women and youths participate in key organs of government, saying that the future of the country was in the hands of Nigerian youths.

He said women, the world over, had demonstrated their commitment to ensuring successful and responsive administrations, of which his government was a beneficiary.

President Jonathan, who stated this in Umuahia, the Abia State capital while on a nationwide campaign rally for his re-election, noted that despite the challenges his administration faced in the last four years, it hadbeen able to put things on the ground to move the nation forward.

He said no government could give the people all they needed, adding, however, that he would strive hard to lay a solid foundation that would provide platforms for development.

On the YOU-WIN programme, President Jonathan assured youths of the country that if re-elected, his government would be geared towards consolidating the gains of the programme through innovations that would further help to improve the economy.

He, however, urged the people of the state to be focused, and vote for him and other PDP members in the state, assuring that his administration would not disappoint Ndigbo if given the mandate.

Jonathan also said his transformation agenda had engendered rapid development in the South-East, and that he would ensure the completion of all Federal Government projects such as Second Niger Bridge, dredging of the River Niger and the reconstruction of Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt expressway and Aba Commercial nerve centre and NNPC Ossisioma depot, among other numerous projects.

Earlier in his speech at the really, Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, had told President Jonathan not to campaign in Abia because the state belonged to him and the PDP alone.

Orji said the president ought not to have come to Abia for campaign, though he described the visit as a courtesy call and a way to visit his in-laws in Abia, whom he said they were well pleased with their granddaughter, “Dame Patience.”

The governor said with “Mama Peace being our granddaughter, President Jonathan should go to bed and sleep as the entire bloc vote in the state is for him alone.”

He added: “The state and its people are ready to return you to Aso Rock. We did it before in the 2011 general election and we are doing it again for February 2015 election with over 100 percent.”

Other notable part stalwarts also spoke at the rally, which had in attendance the wife of the president, Dame Patience Jonathan, National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Adamu Muazu; Director General, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation; Senator Ahmadu Ali, PDP National Vice Chairman and South East Coordinator, Presidential Campaign Colonel Austin Akobundu. and the former senate president Senator Adolphus Nwagbara. Others include Coordinating Minister/Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iwuala, former PDP National Chairman, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor and others.

story for the gods of his village

This man is playing our intelligence really. After a wooping 6years he couldn't do all this, even with the subsidy deregulation money and he expects us to still fall to this.?? Saccato hiss.!!