Jonathan is the Change Nigeria Needs, PDP Insists

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 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said no change could be better than the rapid change in all sectors which Nigeria has undergone in the last four years, declaring the continuity of President Goodluck Jonathan as the real change the nation needs.

A statement by the national Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, on Tuesday said no administration in the history of Nigeria had done so much in the first four years, saying in adopting change as its slogan, the All Progressives Congress (APC) had shown that it was out of tune with reality as change is exactly what the Jonathan-led administration represents.

The party further argued that the mark of true leadership is the ability to stay the course notwithstanding the level of distraction orchestrated to make the leader lose focus, saying President Jonathan has beaten every adversity to achieve an unprecedented  transformation of Nigeria.

“What change is greater than an impeccable delivery in both  fundamentals and incidentals of democracy? The basic and true test of  democracy lies in the level of freedom available to the citizenry, in  the separation of powers and in the value attached to the expressed  wishes of the people in timely polls. To these cardinals of democracy,  President Jonathan has been a slave!

“The change lies in the change of values and attitude towards  decades long corruption as occasioned by the firm stand of President
Jonathan on zero tolerance and in establishing the Freedom of  Information law which has made Nigerians discuss freely and expose  corruption, while government battle the ill within the ambit of the law.

“Today, under President Jonathan, Nigerians relish in all fundamental  freedoms even to a level where the opposition denigrate the person and  the office of the president, yet no one is harassed and none, a  political prisoner.

“Besides, the legacy of credible elections instituted  in 2011 has gathered enough steam with President Jonathan’s insistence  on one man, one vote. Votes now count and for the first time in our recent history, Nigerians raise their Permanent Voters cards (PVCs) in pride as a sign of strength and weapon for the enthronement of the leaders of their choice.

The change, the statement continued “lies in the continuity of the current infrastructural turn around where a lethargy in the unbundling of the energy sector was swiftly overcome and more power stations completed to up and stabilise power supply as the critical base for accelerated development. The change is where a record 25,000 kilometres, out of 35,000 km of federal roads were either re-constructed or rehabilitated in just four years and railways long abandoned for decades are now back on steam.

“There can be no better change than in the diversification of the  economy and where the investment-friendly environment created by the Jonathan administration have buoyed the economy with local and foreign investments; importantly, strengthening genuine local entrepreneurs for global competition, with automobiles for example now manufactured in Nigeria.

According to the PDP, “The change that Nigerians yearn for is that which  consolidates the capacity of a leader who established 14 new  federal universities in four years; holds close to the heart, the future  of the children of the poor in establishing the Almajiri and out-of -school children education system.

“The change lies in that leader who, knowing the critical importance of health and agriculture in directly impacting on the well being of the citizens engineered a radical change that removed a corrupt fertiliser and other agro-input distribution mechanism, gingering productivity by nine metic tonnes of food  cutting down food import bill  by $5.3 billion in 2014, while creating over 2.7 million direct farm jobs.

“He also repositioned health services, returning federal health institutions to real referral centres of excellence with capacity for treating all ailments and raising life expectancy to 53 years from 49 years.

The PDP further charged that the opposition slogan of change is a mask for their inability to fashion out an alternative roadmap to greatness, urging Nigerians to ask them if their meaning of change is a return to ‘Egypt’ where Nigerians queue up for days to buy petroleum products or  the reversal of the realty of today where indigenous Nigerian oil and  gas companies have been empowered and are now masters of the turf.

“We wish Nigerians to ask whether change means a return to an era where governments bought no single weapon for the armed forces to build its strength and make it formidable.

“Nigerians deserve to know whether change means a throw back to the time where instead of using institutional means to fight corruption  within the ambit of the law, government would use extra judicial  instruments to deprive Nigerians of the very essence of democracy in the name of fighting corruption.

According to the statement, “since no one changes a winning team, more so where the opposition has no better alternative except in sloganeering ‘change’, the change remains the continuity of the excels of the present PDP government, through a leader who has shown absolute faith in God, fidelity to the laws of the country and respect for the rights of his  compatriots. “

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