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Nigeria is not new to having its leaders come up its a number of visions and policies since Independence. Jonathan's 5-year development plan 2011-2015, differs based on its being a well thought out policy document backed by a world class team of 28 technocrats. Using the transformation agenda, the president achieved a lot.
REASONS WHY NIGERIANS WANT PRESIDENT JONATHAN BACK FOR THE SECOND TERM

1. President Jonathan is the first President to make sure there is a Federal Universities in each states of the federation. He established 9 new federal universities to make sure the 36 states of the Nation have a federal university.
2. Since assuming office in May 29, 2011 , President Goodluck Jonathan's economic team has been implementing far reaching reforms and policies conceived in the economic blue print which seek, among other things, to revive the country 's infrastructure, diversify the economy from oil and create a vibrant economy.
3. In April 6, 2014 Nigeria become the lab and biggest economy in Africa, after rebase of its GDP. It was reported that Nigeria is the largest economy in Africa with a Gross Domestic Product of $510billion which also places us as the 26th largest economy in the world.
4. The Ministry of Transport has produced a 25 years strategic vision for Nigeria Railways and is rehabilitating several railway corridors including the Lagos Ibadan, Ilorin-jebba-Minna-Kaduna-zaria-kano with branch line from Zaria-Kaura Namoda-Sokoto-Illela (640km); East-West line from Benin-Agbor-Asaba-Onitsha-Owerri-Aba with a spur line to Onitsha-Nnewi (323km) and coastal line Benin -Sapele-Warri- Yenegoa- Porthacourt -Uyo-Calabar.
5. The Youths are supporting Jonathan because of his success in agricultural sector, which was organized on a global scale in 2012 when the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations gave an award to Nigeria for achieving the Millennium Development Goal on hunger by reducing the number of hungry people I the country. According to Mr. President " This milestone was achieved three years ahead of the 2015 target date set for the Millennium Development Goals! While we are delighted at this recognition, we know our job is only done when one Nigerian goes to bed hungry.
6. President Goodluck Jonathan Is the first president and commander in chief of the armed forces that ordered the enlistment of the female cadets in the foremost and only military university in Africa, the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA).
7. The Jonathan administration launched the Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation Lighting Scheme. This is to promote and encourage the use of energy efficient bulbs and lighting systems in order to create an energy conservation culture.
8. President Goodluck Jonathan is the first to increase the monthly allowance of the Nigerian Youth corper from the meager sum they were receiving to the 19 800 they are now receiving.
9. Government is pursuing certain policy measures to reinvigorate various sectors of the economy and enhance their employment generating potentials, including implementing a youth employment safety net support programme that includes conditional cash transfer and vocational training.

Nigeria is not new to having its leaders come up its a number of visions and policies since Independence. Jonathan's 5-year development plan 2011-2015, differs based on its being a well thought out policy document backed by a world class team of 28 technocrats. Using the transformation agenda, the president achieved a lot.

GEJ is still our choice despite all the accusations.

From the moment President Goodluck Jonathan knew and or decided he was going
to contest the 2015 Presidential Election, he should not have picked a fight with
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and a few other persons and powerhouses. Thinking about
it now, I am sure that he regrets it. More than anybody else, Governor Amaechi
pulled the roof on the President’s head and in the process preempted the president’s
planned victory parade. But really, what was the president and his wife thinking when
they picked on a man whose support they needed? Hubris, maybe?
Second, what impelled or compelled the president to enter the race this time around?
You look and or listen to him and you get the feeling that he is exhausted, frustrated,
uninterested and angry. He was a deputy governor, a governor, a vice president and
then acting president before becoming the president in his own right. That should
have been enough for him. Or for anyone else in his position. Really, it should have
been. After all, 1999-2015 is a long time to shoulder the weight of a people. Damn,
what was he thinking? Insatiable greed, perhaps?
Even so, if President Jonathan had done what he was supposed to do, he wouldn’t
be in the shape and corner he is right now – gasping for oxygen and for electoral
survival. But look at him now, he is everywhere begging, begging and begging and in
the process have become the nation’s laughing stock. He was in Jerusalem. He was
in Oyedepo's Winners' Chapel. He was in Adeboye's Redeemed Church. He was in
Lazarus' Charismatic Church. He has also consorted with TB Joshua. He has been in
so many Churches and other places of religious and spiritual significance many of us
have lost count.
In his desperation, he is bowing and kneeling before everybody and everything! And
then he shows up at the Ooni palace (in Ile Ife) looking subdued and as if in a trance.
What is he looking for? Power? Power at all cost; power no matter what it takes?
Some voices in the social media have begun linking him with the Ogboni society.
This is sad, so very sad and pitiful!
In the last couple of years, we’ve seen many sickening and un-presidential pictures.
What are we going to see next? Are we going to see pictures of initiations? A
president pledging his kidney, pledging his liver, pledging his soul -- just so he
could remain in office beyond 2015? There is a limit – there has to be a limit to what
a man can and should do in search of power. Does he have loved one? He should be
called to order.
One of the saddest and most unfortunate things about President Jonathan is that he
doesn’t hold anyone or institution responsible for willful transgressions. Clearly, he
seems incapable of penalizing anybody. His aides, it seems, have come to realize
this fact and so they commit offenses knowing they can and will get away with it.
Take the most recent embarrassing situation for instance: someone or a group of
people at the foreign affairs ministry or so made him look small, very small before
the Moroccans and the international community. Yet, the President has only
promised to “look into it.” Oh no! When you embarrass your president (at this level),
heads must roll. At the very least, get the foreign affairs minister to cane and can the
offenders. There should be accountability: people should be held accountable for
their actions and inactions (especially when such egregiousness diminishes the
prestige and reputation of the President and or his office).
If you have a basic understanding of politics, one of the things you never want to do
is surround yourself with mediocre minds and mediocre intellects. But more than
that, you never want to surround yourself with people who are (a) afraid to tell you
the truth: (b) afraid to disagree with you; and (c) afraid to walk away if and when their
advices are constantly discounted.
But on the other hand, we don’t always give our best effort or best advice simply
because we don’t want to be jobless; don’t want to give up the perks and trappings
of the office; or because we came into office insincere about our intentions. In
essence, we are there, not for the good of the collective or the nation, but for the
good of ourselves. This Jonathan should have known.
A leader may be a danger unto himself if he cannot sift the grains from the sands; if
he cannot tell the difference between praise-singers and honest critics. He does
himself no good if he allows superficial noises to cloud his mind and his sense of
self and understanding of people and ideas. This is a problem that’s peculiar to
many Africa rulers. In Jonathan, it is prominent.
And he rarely acts like a leader. When the presidential election (slated for February
14, 2015) was postponed, he didn’t think it necessary to address the nation, to
explain why the election had to be postponed. But instead, he kept shifting blame
and responsibility to others even though he is the nation’s chief executive officer. In
essence, he failed to provide leadership. He was silent for a number of days –
forgetting that he is the leader of our republic.
There is something comforting about showing leadership, direction, taking
responsibility and allaying the people’s fear and doubt. In times of moral, political,
economic or social crisis, leaders step up to the podium. They take charge. They
lead. This singular act engenders and promotes trust and confidence and respect.
Jonathan didn’t seem to know or understand this singularity. Or, maybe he just
didn’t care!
One of the many tragedies of the Goodluck Jonathan narrative is that too many of his
friends and advisers are/were not sincere. They lied to him. They betrayed him. They
used him. And now, like a broke piece of tumbler, they are about to toss him away.
He is being betrayed left, right and center. Another tragedy is this: the vast majority
of those who drank from his cup and ate from his palm, shied away from defending
him. They shied away from going to bat for him. And many of those who defend him
do so because of inducements -- and not because of love, respect or loyalty.
History has shown that electoral outcomes can be unpredictable. Very unpredictable!
Two weeks is a long time when it comes to elections. And that’s long enough for
Jonathan to close the gap and come up with a Hail Mary. But I doubt it. Experts at
reading tea leaves tell me that the majority of voters will vote for Change – as
opposed to Continuity. I am happy with that.


Sabella Abidde lives in Alabama and can be reached at: Sabidde@yahoo.com[/quote]

Environmental sanitation indeed, what a clueless man GMB is. Environmental sanitation is not going to make us vote for you.
In line with Buhari/APC issue-based campaign, every day Buhari has been expatiating on different sections of the plans and programmes Nigerians should expect once Buhari/Osinbajo ticket is elected this 28th of March.

One Sanitation, expect a Nationwide environmental sanitation


God bless Nigeria. March Buhari

(NOTE: The end of the month Environmental Sanitation Exercise to see today was started by Gen. Buhari as our Head of State)[/quote]

GEJ is a man of integrity and would not stoop that low. This is a very apparent lie.

ote author=Sirniyeh post=31599416]www.dailypost.ng/2015/03/13/obinna-akukwe-interim-government-option-and-the-n200billion-2billion-offer-what-tinubu-never-told-nigerians/


on March 13, 2015

Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the Nigeria’s leading opposition party APC had revealed that Jonathan offered him a Vice Presidency slot under an Interim Govt arrangement, an offer he claimed to have rejected.

Femi-Fani Kayode, the Head of PDP Campaign
Organization had refuted the story, saying that it is
illusionary imaginations from Tinubu. However, I was
personally intimated of the Interim Govt offer to Tinubu by an equally top PDP chieftain who boasted jokingly that ‘my Tinubu and Buhari’ alliance will soon crumble.

This his allusion to ‘my Tinubu and Buhari’ is based on
the fact that he knew that I publicly led some Bishops
and that opposed the distribution of money to some of my pastor colleagues on an anti Buhari sentiments and that I was among the people who ensured that some that collected that money did not sell Jesus to PDP. I believe that the Gospel of Jesus is greater than PDP and APC and this party chieftain subscribes to this and my belief that the good, the bad and the ugly are found in both parties.

Three weeks ago, I was at a sort of meeting bordering on security in the North of Nigeria and afterwards another meeting ensued where some PDP faithful were touting how Jonathan will defeat Buhari during the March 28 polls. I mentioned to the August members present who claim direct links with President Jonathan that their principal had already offered a Vice Presidency slot to Tinubu under an Interim Govt arrangement. I was literally shouted down by those who claim (and I know that some of their claims are true) that they are personally close to Jonathan and he never mentioned it to them. The same persons, a week later, having confirmed the details I gave, contacted me again and this time around, believing that I must be close to either Buhari or Tinubu, asked me about the latest move of the opposition.

About three weeks ago I was informed by a privileged
member of the ruling PDP that Tinubu has been offered a VP slot in order to get him to break away from Buhari. This highly placed PDP facilitator, stakeholder and observer intimated that he is in the thick of the discussion and that soon Tinubu will abandon Buhari for Jonathan. Those allegedly in the thick of the discussions include a retired Military President, select PDP leaders especially from the South West and South South and somebody they believe is working for Sambo, the National Security Adviser (NSA). Mentioning the names I was told is not necessary because my sources will be thoroughly embarrassed. I was later told that Tinubu rejected the Vice Presidency slot almost instantly.

According to my sources, he instead requested that the ruling party defray his campaign expenses which he put at N200 billion naira (N2billion Dollars). He also allegedly demanded that the PDP will allow him produce all the Senators from all the APC states in the South West, including Kwara and Edo States, from Niger Delta and North Central respectively. When I inquired what they will decide on the Tinubu project, I was told that that though Jonathan did not mind fulfilling Tinubu’s alternative request, the PDP leaders in the South West rejected the idea of allowing him produce eighteen Senators all by himself, viewing it as politically dangerous. This money is still chicken change to a party that had stacked nothing less that N3 trillion naira through shady oil deals in readiness for the elections, of which I am aware of some of the deals.

Tinubu, under pressure to give a green light, abandoned the discussion on the pretext of giving the entire idea a second thought. PDP leaders were still waiting for his second thought when he was seen at Chatham House with Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential Flag bearer of the opposition APC. The Chatham House speech of Buhari did an irreparable damage to Jonathan’s image among the international community and the PDP had seen Tinubu as giving the impression that negotiations are ongoing and then he went on to sponsor a Chatham house embarrassment on them.

According to my sources, it was Femi Fani-Kayode who decoded that Tinubu had abandoned the plot and warned the party that the best thing to do is to cage the Lion (Tinubu) before it was too late.

The current plot by the PDP is to stop Tinubu at all cost, since he failed to deliver the South West vote to
Jonathan even when PDP was ready to give him his
demand of N200 Billion naira. I learnt that Tinubu’s
image is to be terribly damaged, then series of
harassment, trumped up charges and outright
elimination might follow. This elimination plot, though canvassed by a former presidential spokesman, has been rejected even within many PDP circles including even Jonathan himself.

A top APC Chieftain whom I met to follow up the
political transactions, initially said he was ignorant of the contents of the negotiations but after some days
confirmed that though an offer of N200 Billion was
made it was the PDP that made the offer to defray
Tinubu’s campaign expenses. I was informed that
though Tinubu was averse to the Interim arrangement, Obasanjo’s caution to the former governor reinforced Tinubu’s stance.

Those denying that there was no interim govt offer are also lying because even NSA Dasuki and Babangida has been discreetly campaigning that Northern Emirs and leaders accept an interim Govt option headed by a northerner. Even Shagari according to reports favors the idea. The news is
all over Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and creating division
among their political elites with the Interim Government option getting gradual sympathy.

Obinna Akukwe
profetobinna2@yahoo.com www.facebook.com/pages/
ObinnaAkukwe, @ObinnaAkukwe[/quote]

Buhari should stop doing eye service because he knows that he has already lost the election What is GMB doing sanitation for, eye-service!!! Can't he learn from GEJ who despite all his achievements still don't blow trumpet.

abacus:
[size=20pt]GMB - GMB Means Business.[/size]

Sai Baba
Sai Buhari

The massive looting of Lagos state by one of the leaders of APC, yet they still come out as sheep in wolf clothing to talk about corruption. First remove the plank in your eyes before you remove the stick in other's eyes.

GEJ knows better what it means to be a graduate and out of job but GMB does not even have that experience due to his level of education. Jonathan's government have created a lot of employment for the youth and and that is impressive.

Collynzo419:
You have tried to correct it but you still got it wrong- Buhari Vs GEJ on Employement

Bros go and pick up your dictionary

Do you still want to see Buhari's certificate?

GEJ will definitely win the election,with all the works he has done. He is someone who does not blow trumpet about his achievements but we all know that he has done a lot and his goodwill will see him through[email][/email][/b][b]

barcanista:
Kabiyesi Sir, Oba Rilwan Akiolu has been campaigning for Ambode in Lagos.

GEJ is in a better position to transform Nigeria, not only with his background but also his educational qualification

jessymore70:
Over the time-frame of my intimate association with Dr. Jonathan, I have come to infer that the pathway of his journey to the presidency has little or no bearing with his ancestral background. He was not born on a golden couch and was not brought-up with a silver spoon in his nouth.he is certainly the man that will work tirelessly to transform Nigeria through sustainable infrastructural development and people oriented-programmes.

I do not believe that GEJ can do that while already a president. Mr. Tinubu you can't deceive us with this liequote author=haitto99 post=31563719]I laugh in Greek....[/quote]

Jonathan has always been known for his humility and understanding, which is a credit to Nigerians. He understood and saw the need for ethnic balance in his administration

Bizinton:
ABEOKUTA-The Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Dr. Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Thursday, rejected an overture to endorse president Goodluck Jonathan for second term. Oba Adetona who paid a host to the President at his palace in Ijebu-Ode during a presidential visit to his palace, urged the President to present his programme to the people of Ijebuland for them to format their opinion on whether to vote him or not. President Jonathan had arrived Awujale palace at 11:15 am in company of the national Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Adamu Mu’azu, the governor of Bayelsa state, Seriake Diskson, governor of Ondo state, Dr. Segun Mimiko, former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. Others at the meeting include, the Munister-designate, Musiliu Obanikoro, Chairman , Mobilisation and Organisation committee of the People’s Democratic Party in the South West, Prince, Buruji Kashamu , the PDP governorship candidate in the state, Gboyega Isiaka , PDP leaders as well as some members of All Progressives Congress and Social Democratic Party. According to Awujale,”In Ijebu here, it is not possible for any Oba, not even in Ijebu, in Yorubaland, to go out and say vote for this, vote for that, that person is looking for trouble, but give them the opportunity to present their programme so that people can make up their minds on what to do, I think this is a very sound democratic principle and that is what I have decided to do, to give you the opportunity of meeting with the people. More details soon.

Source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/awujale-rejects-moves-to-endorse-jonathan/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

GEJ would win the coming election regardless of his support or not.

Bizinton:
ABEOKUTA-The Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Dr. Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Thursday, rejected an overture to endorse president Goodluck Jonathan for second term. Oba Adetona who paid a host to the President at his palace in Ijebu-Ode during a presidential visit to his palace, urged the President to present his programme to the people of Ijebuland for them to format their opinion on whether to vote him or not. President Jonathan had arrived Awujale palace at 11:15 am in company of the national Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Adamu Mu’azu, the governor of Bayelsa state, Seriake Diskson, governor of Ondo state, Dr. Segun Mimiko, former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. Others at the meeting include, the Munister-designate, Musiliu Obanikoro, Chairman , Mobilisation and Organisation committee of the People’s Democratic Party in the South West, Prince, Buruji Kashamu , the PDP governorship candidate in the state, Gboyega Isiaka , PDP leaders as well as some members of All Progressives Congress and Social Democratic Party. According to Awujale,”In Ijebu here, it is not possible for any Oba, not even in Ijebu, in Yorubaland, to go out and say vote for this, vote for that, that person is looking for trouble, but give them the opportunity to present their programme so that people can make up their minds on what to do, I think this is a very sound democratic principle and that is what I have decided to do, to give you the opportunity of meeting with the people. More details soon.

Source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/awujale-rejects-moves-to-endorse-jonathan/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter