₦airaland Forum

I can't just understand Y students agitated for election break. Silly!
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396


We Are Not Aware Of Plan For Interim
Government - Nigeria Army
www.nairaland.com/2129048/not-aware-plan-interim-government

I have checked your profile and I have seen enough reason I should not exchange word with you, u are just a political thug. FYI, I'm a staunch supporter of Buhari as well but not APC.

yomip3t:
That's why you are busy reading every post on NL.
Unemployed being....Element of PDP.

Then, we'll complain that police doesn't ensure safety of life and property of the citizenry, how would they do that when their life and property isn't secured either?.
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396


We Are Not Aware Of Plan For Interim
Government - Nigeria Army
www.nairaland.com/2129048/not-aware-plan-interim-government

I'm not surprised.

Etteh (Yoruba) = Cunning (Eng. Lang)!
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396


We Are Not Aware Of Plan For Interim
Government - Nigeria Army
www.nairaland.com/2129048/not-aware-plan-interim-government

“Whenever I discuss with him, I see a young
man who has passion for Nigeria. Under
Jonathan, Nigeria is in safe hands." IBB. Ok, I hear oooooooooo.
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396


We Are Not Aware Of Plan For Interim
Government - Nigeria Army
www.nairaland.com/2129048/not-aware-plan-interim-government

Corruption has obviously been a bane on this country's development, so there nothing wrong if corrupt officials are punished.
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396


We Are Not Aware Of Plan For Interim
Government - Nigeria Army
www.nairaland.com/2129048/not-aware-plan-interim-government

APC and PDP bribing Nigerians since 640AD, they both have their specific way of scamming Nigerians. Mtcheww!
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396




We Are Not Aware Of Plan For Interim
Government - Nigeria Army
www.nairaland.com/2129048/not-aware-plan-interim-government

I often work with a theory called 'what if', what if the army are actually planning govt overthrow underground, will you welcome the interim govt.?

omenka:
They can keep denying it if they like or chose to be deliberately ignorant, Nigerians are aware.

SR published an article about investigations they carried out which suggests the government has drawn up a series of plans to scuttle the elections or ensure its postponement, the last resort of which is to put in place an interim government. So far, they've been proven right especially with the protest to the INEC HQ by a motley crew of youths apparently paid to do so.

When the chips are down, Nigerians are looking up to our army to do what is right by handing over the reigns of power to the duly elected president which one could confidently predict would be GMB and give Jonathan the Gbagbo treatment he deserves. The ICC would welcome him with open arms.

God bless Nigeria.

What's the big deal in that? It's just amazing how we play politics in this country.

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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396


We Are Not Aware Of Plan For Interim
Government - Nigeria Army
www.nairaland.com/2129048/not-aware-plan-interim-government

Do you bother to read the post above before you spit this trash? Btw, how much are you paid to do this, I observed u have being spamming almost every thread with this poem since yesterday. Be careful, otherwise u will force seun to do the needful(ban u).

yomip3t:
PDP openly knows long ago that POVERTY is our number one problem. Stop collecting Rice, Sugar, Motorcycle, Cars, Money from them. They will come back and deduct it in million times from us. 16years of no good result! All they give you now won't last for four years.

Good things comes easily and in silent, not by sharing rice e.t.c

Vote wisely!
SAI BUHARI

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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396

The Nigerian Army has debunked the rumour making the rounds in the social media that the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Kenneth Minimah, and the military leadership are actively working for an interim government after May 29, 2015.

The Acting Director of Army Public Relations
(Ag.DAPR), Col. Sani Usman, said in a statement on
Tuesday that the Army's attention has "been drawn
to spurious and unsubstantiated allegations being
circulated, particularly in the social media, about the Nigerian Army, the Chief of Army Staff and some serving senior officers.

"Any discerning mind would notice that these false
and baseless allegations are calculated attempts by
unpatriotic elements to divide the Nigerian Army,
create disaffection among its ranks and distract the
service from its avowed constitutional duty of
defending the territorial integrity of our great nation.

Unfortunately for these individuals, their effort which are reminiscent of the NADECO days are obviously aimed at reversing the gains made and the renewed efforts in fighting terrorism and insurgency in the country is failing woefully".

Before dealing with these allegations, Usman said, it is important to note that these efforts are renewed attempts by the same faceless groups who since last year have made futile efforts to politicize ongoing counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations of the Nigerian Army and other security agencies.

He recalled that late last year, the same group using the stolen identity of a serving lieutenant colonel, wrote a petition to the president making all sorts of unfounded allegations.

He said the petition was thoroughly investigated by
relevant security agencies, adding that the findings
indicated that the petition was indeed the handiwork of faceless and unpatriotic individuals who seek to distract the army.

The ag. DAPR said the latest effort by these same
group and their collaborators is the sensational and
outrageous claim that the Chief of Army Staff is
preparing to assume the leadership of this country
through an interim government, in the event that the opposition party wins the 2015 general election at the federal level.

Usman warned that such unpatriotic act is “dangerous, condemnable and a great disservice,
given the tremendous sacrifices of the Nigerian army in support of democracy in our nation.”

According to him, “This deliberate attempt to erode
public confidence and trust in the Nigerian army will not be tolerated and the masterminds of these
campaigns of calumny are advised to desist from
their nefarious activities forthwith.”

Similarly, the army spokesman said, a letter has also surfaced in the social media purportedly written by ‘Concerned Officers and Soldiers of Operation Zaman Lafiya.’

Usman reminded Nigeria that the said letter was a
rehash of the same issues peddled by the writers of a similar petition last year using the stolen identity of a serving military officer.

Also, he said, another online medium has claimed
that two serving Major Generals of the Nigerian army have tendered “a letter of resignation” over an alleged disagreement with the Chief of Army Staff during a meeting.”
“The medium neither mentioned the names of the
senior officers concerned, nor the time and place of
the alleged meeting with the Chief of Army Staff. For the avoidance of doubt, there has been no
resignation whatsoever in the Nigerian Army on
account of the disagreement with the Chief of Army
Staff.

“It must be stated categorically that the Nigerian
Army is apolitical. In the same vein, it does not
tolerate any of its officers or soldiers being involved
in political matters”, he remarked.
In this regard, Usman continued, “it is recalled that
the Chief of Army Staff while addressing the passing- out-parade of 71 Regular Recruits Intake at Depot Nigerian Army Zaria, recently, reiterated this thus, “As you all aware, this is an election year.”

The Ag. DAPR urged members of the public who are
in doubt “to read and understand the code of
conduct for military personnel during elections.
“You must remain apolitical at all times and in all
situations. You must also see yourselves as
ambassadors of the Nigerian Army and project the
image of the Service positively at all times. To
achieve this, you are expected to discharge your
duties diligently, professionally and patriotically.”

Speaking further, Usman restated the fact that the
Nigerian Army remains committed and loyal to the
Constitution of the country and the President,
Commander-in-Chief.
He said: “The army is conscious and committed to its subordination to constituted civil authorities.

“Politicians and their agents and agencies should
please desist from attempts to drag the Nigerian
Army into their political issues. Nigerian Army
welcomes genuine complaints against individual
officers and soldiers.

“Cases of alleged corruption or misconduct should
therefore be directed to the appropriate civilian or
military authority, instead of embarking on
unfounded smear campaigns that will achieve no
result.”

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/army-we-are-not-aware-of-plan-for-interim-government/200938/

What if he fail us again?

Firefire:
Whatever Goodluck Jonathan have done in the last four years, we believe that his administration will even do more in the next four years.


Please give your vote to Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.


Don't be deceived by the masqueraders.

And that's Y I will always travel by train!

I'm only concerned about INEc stand on that issue of postponement.....

He looks very suited
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396

Really?

gen2briz:
The name GMB is giving some people serious headache....
Thank God say I have decide.

How? What do you mean?

NO, it's inappropriate but I can ask the question in such a diplomatic manner by being less direct.
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396

I will give it to APC base on the imagines above!

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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396


We Are Not Aware Of Plan For Interim
Government - Nigeria Army
www.nairaland.com/2129048/not-aware-plan-interim-government

Just passing!

President Goodluck Jonathan has said he would perform better in his second term if elected in the February 14 presidential election.

He stated this on Tuesday when he met with Kogi State traditional rulers in Lokoja, the state capital just before he led other Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, faithful to the Confluence Stadium for the presidential candidate rally.

Mr. Jonathan is the party’s presidential candidate in the election. He had been fiercely criticised
particularly by the opposition for allegedly being incompetent.

In 2011, the president was quoted as saying that he would rule for only one term because what he could notachieve in four years, even if given 100 years, he would not be able to do them.
Mr. Jonathan however told the royal fathers he deserves another term of four years to enable him consolidate on the achievements he has already
recorded in his current first term which will end May 29.

The president said most governments do better in their last terms because they have enough time to settle down and plan.
“Whatever we have done in the last four years, we believe that we will even do more in the next four years. Most governments all over the world do
better in their second tenure,” Mr. Jonathan said.
“This is because the Presidents are more stable that time, especially in this two-term arrangement. They are more stable. They sit down and plan for the country and focus on key areas.”

The president assured that if elected he would give
attention to the Ajaokuta Steel Company of Nigeria.
He also told the traditional rulers that his administration would ensure that steel was included in the nation’s rail system.

The National Chairman of the PDP, Adamu Mu’azu,
while addressing the traditional rulers, promised that if voted into power again, the party administration would restore their constitutional roles.
“Our party leader, President Jonathan is leading the
crusade to bring you back into the constitution,” Mr.
Mu’azu said.
Also speaking, the governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, said the traditional rulers had always supported the transformation agenda of the PDP government and asked them to continue to do so.

Speaking on behalf of the rulers, the Attah Igala,
Idakwo Michael Oboni II, asked the president Jonathan to continue with his laudable programmes.

At the presidential rally, Mr. Jonathan assured that he would make Ajaokuta Steel Company work again
because all the legal barriers had been removed.
According to him, steel and iron were very crucial to
Nigeria’s economy.
He said, “I wish to tell you that all is set to make
Ajaokuta Steel Company to work again.”
The president asked the people of Kogi State to vote
massively for him and other PDP candidates on
February 14 and 28 as they did in 2011.

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/176216-re-elected-ill-perform-better-second-term-says-jonathan.html

resty4:
God BH had these sophisticated weapons? but now reclaimed by NA? Bh days r numbered. Gallant NA strike [Bh] on their necks until they feel subdue and islam i.e submit.

Islam has nothing to do with their actions, I'm a muslim and I can tell u there is no part in the Quran or any hadiths that support what they are doing (in fact, I can show several verses in the Quran that speak repeatedly against what they do ). They are just useless people hiding under that religion.
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3


I’ll Perform Better In My Second
Term If Re-Elected - President Jonathan
Assures
www.nairaland.com/2128799/ill-perform-better-second-term#30406396

Lol

With all this so-called joint efforts, why is it still difficult to locate these terrors called BH. I wake up every morning looking forward to read that BH has been captured. God help Nigeria!

How did these militants get hold of such weapons,
my goodness.




http://lindaikeji..com/2015/02/pic-see-some-weapons-re-captured-from.html?m=1

APC VP aspirant, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo shares his
pledge to God concerning public funds on twitter

See tweet below :






http://www..ng/2015/02/03/prof-osinbajo-pledges-god-not-steal-public-funds-elected/

I'm in consensus-ad-i dem with OP.
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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To
Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
www.nairaland.com/2127363/gej-superior-presidential-material-gmb#2127363.3

Seun, obinoscopy, OAM4J, maclatunji, the above thread should also be on FP to establish a balance.

Continued

Investors’ haven

In the last three years, the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
has ranked Nigeria as the number one country for
foreign investments in Africa. We also receive more
home-remittances than any other African country; a
vote of confidence in our economy by Nigerians
living abroad. They remitted $23 billion in 2013, a
figure far more than the $18 billion received by
Egypt; the country with the second highest home
remittance in Africa.

It is a testament to Goodluck Jonathan’s adroit
management of the Nigerian economy that the
richest African is now a Nigerian. In 2010, when
Jonathan came to power, Aliko Dangote was the
463rd richest man in the world, with a total fortune
of $2.1 billion. Today, he is the 23rd richest man in
the world, with a total fortune of $25 billion.
Dangote’s billions are “made in Nigeria.” Indeed,
under Jonathan, Nigeria now has the fourth highest
rate of returns on investments in the world,
according to UNCTAD.

Crisis of unemployment

The big challenge has to do with jobs. Every year,
another 1.8 million people are offloaded into the job
market. However, while the APC says Buhari will
create 720,000 jobs a year if elected, Jonathan
created 1.6 million jobs in 2013. He has established
such innovative programs as Nagropreneurs and
YOUWIN that support young farmers and
entrepreneurs with grants, training and mentorship.

He has also instituted internship schemes to
enhance the capacity of university graduates to
secure gainful employment.

The unemployment problem is compounded by the
more than doubling of the education budget under
Jonathan. Every Nigerian child now has the
opportunity to go to school. Indeed, there has been a 10 million increase in school enrolment in Nigeria
under this government. There has also been a 75%
increase in O Level credit pass in Maths and English.

Jonathan established 125 almajiri schools in 13
northern states. He also established 14 new federal
universities. There is now a federal university in
every state. Indeed, the kidnapping of the Chibok
schoolgirls derives from the disenchantment of the
Boko Haram that many Northern girls are now going to school.

Dealing with corruption

According to Transparency International, Nigeria has not become more corrupt under Goodluck Jonathan.

Out of 178 countries ranked in 2010, Nigeria was the 134th most corrupt country. In 2014, Nigeria was ranked 136th.

Unlike Buhari, Jonathan understands that corruption
has to be attacked institutionally, from the roots.
Therefore, he proposed the abrogation of the
petroleum subsidy; one of the biggest avenues for
corruption in government. However, Nigerians
refused. Jonathan has sanitized the corruption in
fertilizer distribution. The Minister of Agriculture,
Akinwumi Adesina, lamented that between 1980
and 2010, Nigeria lost 776 billion naira to corrupt
fertilizer racketeering.

That effectively came to an end under Jonathan.
Through the innovative e-wallet system, farmers are given cell-phones through which they now have
direct and easy access to government-provided
fertilizer, chemicals and seedlings. Jonathan has also sanitised the banking system by removing dinosaur managing directors, recovering indigent loans and using AMCOM to mop up bad loans.

By instituting e-payment systems, he sanitized the
civil service by removing 50,000 ghost-workers in
one fell swoop. He has equally got rid of ghost voters from the electoral register; over 1 million ghost voters were removed from the Zamfara INEC register alone. Under Jonathan, we have had free and fair elections one after the other; in Edo, Anambra, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun.

Transforming agriculture

Agriculture has been transformed under this
administration. Thanks to Jonathan, agriculture now
accounts for 22% of Nigeria’s GDP, more than oil and gas which only account for 15.9%.

Under Jonathan, Nigeria has recorded a more than
50% reduction in food imports. Prior to his
presidency, we had a food import bill of 1.4 trillion
naira. But now, it is less than 700 billion. With the
innovation of dry season rice-farming, Nigeria has
reached 60% self-sufficiency in rice production.

According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation
of the United Nations (FAO), Nigeria is now the
largest producer of cassava in the world. The
Jonathan government built six strategically-located
perishable cargo airports in Ilorin, Jalingo, Jos, Lagos, Makurdi andYola; in close proximity to Nigeria’s food baskets.

It is remarkable that Northern farmers were able to
donate five million tubers of yam in order to raise 5
billion naira for Buhari’s presidential election
campaign. If Jonathan transformation agenda in
agriculture was not working as planned, they would
not have been able to do this.

Between 1983 and 1985, Peter Onu of Nigeria was Acting Secretary-General of the OAU. At the 1985 Summit in Addis Ababa, statesmen like Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, lobbied for his election as substantive Secretary-General. However, there was a major stumbling block to Peter Onu’s candidature: his Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, was campaigning against him.

Buhari claimed: “This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country than Nigeria.” But when the crunch came, his allegiance to Nigeria disappeared. In the election of the OAU Secretary-General in 1985, Buhari voted against Nigeria and for Niger instead. He secured the election of Ide Oumarou, a Fulani man from Niger; as opposed to an Igbo man from Nigeria. By so doing, Buhari became the first and only Head of State in the history of modern international relations to vote against his country in favour of his tribe.

Years later, General Buhari marched all the way from Daura to Ibadan to demand of Oyo State Governor, Lam Adeshina: “Why are your people killing my people?” Again, he was not referring to Nigerians as his people. Instead, he was an advocate for the rights of murderous Fulani herdsmen who killed Yoruba farmers that objected to their cattle grazing on their land and damaging their crops. This same Buhari who voted against Nigeria in 1985, and said in 2003: “Muslims should only vote those who will promote Islam,” is now shopping for votes nationwide. He should be rejected outright.

Ignorance running riot

If APC had wanted to be taken seriously, it would have come up with a better presidential material than Buhari. There is something anomalous about a party whose mantra is change, recycling a 73 year old man as its candidate for the president of modern Nigeria. Buhari has little or no understanding of public policy. That is why APC will always come up with some excuse or the other not to have him participate in a debate with Jonathan. Buhari fought corruption by imposing ridiculous 300-year sentences on offenders. He fought exam malpractices by imposing 24-year prison sentences on school children.

He dealt with indiscipline by flogging people to queue at bus-stops. He dealt with food shortages by sending soldiers to break into private warehouses and shops. He fought trade imbalances by taking Nigeria back to the stone age of trade by barter (counter-trade). He sought to extradite a Nigerian from Britain by drugging and crating him.

There is so much about Buhari ending the Boko Haram insurgency as he did the Maitatsine insurgency in the 1980s. But the General needs to be advised that Boko Haram is not Maitatsine. Maitatsine was in two towns: Boko Haram is in three states with spillover effects into others. Maitatsine fought with bows and arrows: Boko Haram fights with sophisticated weapons. Maitatsine was a local insurgency, Boko Haram is an international phenomenon.

Anti-corruption hypocrisy: Buhari does not know what corruption means and how to fight it. He became Nigeria’s Head of State through the corruption of a coup d’état and he then tried to fight corruption with corruption. Imposing retroactive decrees and killing Nigerians under them is corruption. Putting an Igbo vice-president in Kirikiri, while placing the Fulani president under palatial house arrest, is corruption.

Detaining people like Michael Ajasin in jail, even after they were discharged and acquitted by kangaroo courts, is corruption. Jailing journalists for telling the truth is corruption. Putting pressure on a judge in order to jail Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is corruption. Shepherding 53 suitcases of contraband unchecked through Customs during a currency change exercise is corruption. Swearing an affidavit that your school-leaving certificate is with the military when it is not, is corruption.

Transforming Nigeria: Buhari’s shameful past is dwarfed by the achievements of Goodluck Jonathan. Under Jonathan, Nigeria has emerged as by far the largest economy in Africa with a GDP of $503 billion; nearly double the previous estimates. South Africa now comes a distant second with $350 billion. With the unbundling of PHCN after 52 years of gridlock, and with now the realizable target of 20,000 megawatts of electricity by 2020, Nigeria’s GDP will soon double that of South Africa.

CNN Money projects that the fastest growing economy in the world in 2015 will be China (7.3% growth rate); followed by Qatar (7.1%); and then followed by Nigeria (7%). This belies all the misinformation about the Nigerian economy dished out by the APC and attests to the astute management of the economy by the Jonathan administration. The seemingly ambitious Vision 20 2020, proclaimed under the Abacha regime to make Nigeria one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020 is now well in sight. Today, Nigeria is already the 23rd largest economy in the world. Kudos to Jonathan, we have overtaken such European countries as Austria and Belgium.

Life expectancy

In 2010, when Jonathan became acting president, life expectancy in Nigeria was 47 years. Today, it is 54 years; an improvement of seven years. Adroit application of SURE-P funds has reduced the maternal mortality ratio in Nigeria by 26%. Under Jonathan, Nigeria has become Guinea Worm-free; a disease previously affecting 800,000 Nigerians yearly. In the last six months, there has been no new case of polio in Nigeria. If this goes on for another two and a half years, Nigeria will be declared polio-free.

Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, hailed Nigeria’s fight against polio as one of the great world achievements of 2014. He said: “The infrastructure Nigeria has built to fight polio actually made it easier for them to swiftly contain Ebola. The fact that Nigeria is now Ebola-free is a great example of how doing the work to fight things like fighting polio also leaves countries better prepared to deal with outbreaks of other diseases.”

Investors’ haven: In the last three years, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has ranked Nigeria as the number one country for foreign investments in Africa. We also receive more home-remittances than any other African country; a vote of confidence in our economy by Nigerians living abroad. They remitted $23 billion in 2013, a figure far more than the $18 billion received by Egypt; the country with the second highest home remittance in Africa. It is a testament to Goodluck Jonathan’s adroit management of the Nigerian economy that the richest African is now a Nigerian.

In 2010, when Jonathan came to power, Aliko Dangote was the 463rd richest man in the world, with a total fortune of $2.1 billion. Today, he is the 23rd richest man in the world, with a total fortune of $25 billion. Dangote’s billions are “made in Nigeria.” Indeed, under Jonathan, Nigeria now has the fourth highest rate of returns on investments in the world, according to UNCTAD.

Crisis of unemployment

The big challenge has to do with jobs. Every year, another 1.8 million people are offloaded into the job market. However, while the APC says Buhari will create 720,000 jobs a year if elected, Jonathan created 1.6 million jobs in 2013. He has established such innovative programmes as Nagropreneurs and YOUWIN that support young farmers and entrepreneurs with grants, training and mentorship. He has also instituted internship schemes to enhance the capacity of university graduates to secure gainful employment.

The unemployment problem is compounded by the more than doubling of the education budget under Jonathan. Every Nigerian child now has the opportunity to go to school. Indeed, there has been a 10 million increase in school enrolment in Nigeria under this government. There has also been a 75% increase in O’ Level credit pass in Maths and English. Jonathan established 125 Almajiri schools in 13 northern states. He also established 14 new federal universities. There is now a federal university in every state. Indeed, the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls derives from the disenchantment of the Boko Haram that many Northern girls are now going to school.

Dealing with corruption: According to Transparency International, Nigeria has not become more corrupt under Goodluck Jonathan. Out of 178 countries ranked in 2010, Nigeria was the 134th most corrupt country. In 2014, Nigeria was ranked 136th. Unlike Buhari, Jonathan understands that corruption has to be attacked institutionally, from the roots. Therefore, he proposed the abrogation of the petroleum subsidy; one of the biggest avenues for corruption in government. However, Nigerians refused. Jonathan has sanitized the corruption in fertilizer distribution. The Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, lamented that between 1980 and 2010, Nigeria lost 776 billion naira to corrupt fertilizer racketeering.

Fertiliser racketeering

That effectively came to an end under Jonathan. Through the innovative e-wallet system, farmers are given cell-phones through which they now have direct and easy access to government-provided fertilizer, chemicals and seedlings. Jonathan has also sanitised the banking system by removing dinosaur managing directors, recovering indigent loans and using AMCON to mop up bad loans. By instituting e-payment systems, he sanitized the civil service by removing 50,000 ghost-workers in one fell swoop. He has equally got rid of ghost voters from the electoral register; over 1 million ghost voters were removed from the Zamfara INEC register alone. Under Jonathan, we have had free and fair elections one after the other; in Edo, Anambra, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun.

Agriculture has been transformed under this administration. Thanks to Jonathan, agriculture now accounts for 22% of Nigeria’s GDP, more than oil and gas which only account for 15.9%. Under Jonathan, Nigeria has recorded a more than 50% reduction in food imports. Prior to his presidency, we had a food import bill of 1.4 trillion naira. But now, it is less than N700 billion. With the innovation of dry season rice-farming, Nigeria has reached 60% self-sufficiency in rice production. According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Nigeria is now the largest producer of cassava in the world. The Jonathan government built six strategically-located perishable cargo airports in Ilorin, Jalingo, Jos, Lagos, Makurdi andYola; in close proximity to Nigeria’s food baskets.

It is remarkable that Northern farmers were able to donate five million tubers of yam in order to raise 5 billion naira for Buhari’s presidential election campaign. If Jonathan’s transformation agenda in agriculture was not working as planned, they would not have been able to do this.

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/02/04/femi-aribisala-president-jonathan-superior-presidential-material-buhari/

I'm not convinced it's a rape case. Besides, what's a lady doing in male hostel? Shhh!

She will be located by Allah's mercy.








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Goodluck Jonathan Is A Superior Presidential Material To Muhammadu Buhari, By Femi Aribisala(Columnist)
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