President Goodluck Jonathan
yesterday promised to fully implement
the recommendations of the national
conference, if allowed to go for a
second term in office. According to him, if the country must
he transformed for good, the report of
the national conference must be
implemented, even as he said for the
report to be fully implemented, a
national assembly that works must be put in place. Jonathan, who spoke when he paid a
courtesy call on the Alafin of Oyo, Oba
Lamidi Adeyemi in his palace in Oyo
town, Oyo State, also said with his
administration’s power reforms and
full privatisation of the sector, Nigerians would take power supply
for granted within the next few years. This is even as the Alafin promised to
ensure that the people of Oyo were
mobilised to give the President
another chance in the forthcoming
presidential poll. The president said he did not influence
the report of the confab because he
believed that what is good for the
country is good for him. He added that the people of Oyo State
will have to vote for all Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) National
Assembly candidates in order to have
a legislature well disposed to
approving the report. He said: “We set up the national
conference and the report is ready. As
a government and as a party, we
believe that those who did that report
meant well for the country. We
gathered almost 500 Nigerians from all walks of life including the
traditional institutions, young people,
teachers, journalists, lawyers,
everybody. “I never influenced it because I believe
that what is good for Nigeria is good
for me. And I believe too that if really
we want to change this country in a
better way, we should implement that
report. “The government and the party are
totally committed to implementing 100
percent of that report but we need a
National Assembly that will work with
us”, he said. “So, we are using this platform to
plead with our people of this great
state to support the PDP to send their
strong daughters and sons to the
federal level to work with us so that
we will implement that report because I know how passionate some of you
are in terms of that report”. Restating his determination to reform
the power sector in view of its role in
the development of small and medium
scale enterprises, Jonathan said the
privatisation processes were almost
completed and the change over phase from public to private sector was
ongoing. His words: “We believe in the next two
years, this will be consumated and
Nigerians will take power for granted. “We believe that if you give us your
mandate, at least, in the next two
years, this epileptic power supply will
be a thing of the past and it will be the
basis for the growth of micro, small
and medium enterprises in this country”. He said he was in Oyo to inform the
Alafin that he was recontesting
presidential election with Namadi
Sambo as his running mate and to ask
for his blessing and prayers. In his response, the royal father
commended the president for what he
said was “the dynamism you are
noted for in the country”,must as he
promised to ensure that the people of
Oyo were mobilsed to give the president another mandate. Those who accompanied the
president include PDP National
Chairman, Adamu Muazu; former
Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi,
former Ogun State governor, Otunba
Gbenga Daniel and Chief of Staff to the President, Brig-Gen. Jones Arogbofa
( retd). Others are Minister of State for Federal
Capital Territory (FCT); Olajumoke
Akinjide; PDP Oyo State governorship
candidate, Teslim Folarin, Dr. Ifeanyi
Uba, Ahmed Gulak, Senator Hosea
Agboola, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, among others.
www.newsday.com.ng

Ok

when

Mumu President does not understand how his country's democratic system works. shey him go bypass NASS to implement de ting?

The clueless one should not bother to implement the conference report, GMB will implement after May 2015 !!!

SAI BABA

I problem actually with all this government officials personifying every thing 'I will'

Buhari is a terrorist

nduchucks:
Mumu President does not understand how his country's democratic system works. shey him go bypass NASS to implement de ting?

You seriously need sense

na DIE the northerners dey

What is stopping him from getting the ball rolling now? Or are we saying the presidency is not going to be doing any work till after elections? What a joker. I will tackle corruption after election, I will improve infrastructure of elections, I will address boko haram after elections, I will do everything after elections. Do people really buy these lies?