Come March 28 2015 Nigerians will decide who their next President will be. The Nigerian youths make up a significant proportion of the registered voters. This prompted me to attempt to get a assessment of the view of this voting population’s review of the reasons for the choice and voting style it appears that some of this class of Nigerians need proper orientation and education ahead that is why I will try.

Nigeria as a nation has gone through very extended military regime which distorted the growth of our democratic institutions. OBJ tried his best but remember that he was a military man. Ya'Adua and President Jonathan on their own put in their very best and as we can all attest, INEC is doing a great Job. What most GEJ critics usually do is to give praises to Jega when INEC performs but abuse Jonathan when INEC fails. This is not fair. As at today, INEC is under the Presidency. The Presidency funds INEC and knows about her policies, strategies and programs. It is totally wrong for us to disregard Mr President when it comes to INEC good performance. Mr President chose Jega and empowered him to do the great works. Also for those who could recall Maurice Iwu of those days. He could only perform based on the limitation of Mr President and the electoral act. Likewise Jega. in 2011, INEC under Jega wanted to conduct a full scale e voting. I am not talking of use of PVC and or card reader machine. I am talking about using your thumb prints directly on the voting equipment. They discovered that the electoral act does not support it. Then INEC made moves to amend the act. Up till now it has not been able to pass through the National Assembly. Note that National Assembly is an independent and separate arm of government. The President cannot just jump in and force them to amend the act. The PVC and the PVC verification machine is just a way around the real e voting solution. It is hoped that in the future, our legislators will see the wisdom in the full scale e voting solution. India with a voting population of about 800million uses e voting why can't we use it?

In my view Mr President is fighting corruption in a very effective manner with the use of computer based solutions. As at today, FIRS ( Federal Inland Revenue Service), CAC ( Corporate Affairs Commission), NPA ( Nigerian Ports Authority), Federal Government Employee payroll system have all been computerized. You can now register your business online through http://new.cac.gov.ng/home/ . With the payroll solution the nation was able to save over N64Billion Naira usually paid to ghost workers.

What I am saying is that with computer based solutions, the Federal government is gradually building a culture of Zero or near to Zero corruption or fraud environment. The computerization process is still on and If we allow the federal Government, most of them will be completed in a year or two. With this computerization processes, most if not all of the middlemen will be totally eliminated. Businesses and government operations will function more efficiently.


Through YOUWIN initiative. (See https://www.youwin.org.ng/) the Federal Government is saying that most of our youths are currently masters in CV design. What if they are reeducated to make them know that they could become employers?. And some of them who will finally qualify will be given a free money to go and invest. This free money is known as grants. Now my observation is that a few lazy youths think that this is a way of making lazy money. This is not for lazy Nigerians. As soon as you can attempt to go through the process you will see that your entrepreneurial skill will definitely develop even when you don't have the final grant. You can grow your business and become and employer of labor. It was assumed that each youth could employ as much as 22 other youths and soon our labor challenge will be a thing of the past. I want to tell us that while some youths are very busy abusing the Federal Government and watching EPL some youths are already keying in to the Federal Government initiative and helping others. Also check out project act initiative of the Federal Government( http://www.projectactnollywood.com.ng/) Also the Federal Government have approved the establishment of a bank to take care of small and medium scale businesses.

Security challenge: We will all recall that our founding fathers approved the body known as Council of States. See this link for their function http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_State_%28Nigeria%29. I want to let you know that the Federal Government worked closely with the council of states meeting in arriving at the current solution to the insurgency challenge. You will recall that the council of states meeting is made up of past presidents etc. They have all been working had until when our Nation had to sign several treaties with our neighboring countries. It was initially discovered that the terrorists usually run across the borders. Nigerian government after waiting for her US partners for a long time had to approach other vendors for quality weapons. You will recall that When Iheijirika was able to chase the insurgents to the forest certain Nigerians claimed that he was committing genocide. Base on that the US believe that our human rights records was poor and they prefer to stay aside.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/us-blocks-nigeria-s-purchase-of-chinook-helicopters-from-israel/189710/

http://www.punchng.com/news/boko-haram-america-not-nigerias-friend-says-gowon/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/nigeria-slams-us-refusal-arms-fight-boko-haram/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/169264-why-nigerian-military-has-difficulty-getting-arms-from-america-u-s-govt.html

http://au.ibtimes.com/us-influence-goes-down-russias-expands-agrees-supply-weapons-arms-nigeria-1394087

Thanks to our foreign partners, we now have very good quality equipments also our neighbors are also very helpful.

Infrastructure:

Several Federal roads projects have been completed. A notable one is the Benin Ore road. You will recall that for the 8 years OBJ ruled that road was not motor able. Travelers usually drive into the bush before coming out ahead. It usually take longer time to get to the east. But as at today, it takes about 4 Hours to get to the eastern side of the country. Also the dead rails system has been revived. Now travelers can go from Port Harcourt to Enugu on rail at the cost of N750. While the old rail line is being worked on the Federal Government of Nigeria have already signed a contract with a Chinese firm to link all our states with high speed rail lines. (See links below)

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/kpmg-report-13bn-high-speed-rail-to-save-nigeria-road-maintenance-cost/196308/

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-unveils-take-off-of-high-speed-train-from-abuja-to-lagos/201012/

http://tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/30363-kpmg-report-13bn-high-speed-rail-to-save-nigeria-road-maintenance-cost/30363-kpmg-report-13bn-high-speed-rail-to-save-nigeria-road-maintenance-cost

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/fg-plans-3-hour-abuja-lagos-speed-rail-project/

I also understand that 600 KM high speed rail line connecting Lagos to Ibadan has also been approved.
These rail projects will boost commerce in the nation. For instance vegetable and cattle dealers can transport their goods at a low cost from the northern part of the nation to the south. Also trader from the north can purchase their goods from the south and transport same to the north at a low cost.

A similar project was aborted by the military in the early 80's ( Check out this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos_Rail_Mass_Transit) It is might believe that the youths will not allow themselves to be used to truncate this project. Today Lagos is experiencing huge traffic challenge. Pa Jakande saw this coming and tried to avert it but the Military struck and stopped the project. I wish we will all allow it to fly. The youths will be the ones to benefit from the project and not Jonathan alone.

Due to desperation and poor understanding of government policies, some youths are being used to vandalize gas pipelines there by distorting our power supply. The Federal Government of Goodluck Jonathan is about deploying technology to monitor our pipelines. See this link http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/digital-surveillance-curtail-pipeline-vandalism-coming-says-power-minister/

It is believed that with these progresses our power supply will be stable. Permit me to stop here for now.

And please my brothers and sisters it is for our own good for us to join hands with Mr President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to fix our dear nation Nigeria.

Thank you