Because Jonathan Is A Minority – PDP Chibuzo Ukaibe — March 19, 2014 The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday declared that the high wave of insurgency and sectarian violence across the country are sponsored to undermine the person, office and administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. The party accused the “opposition” of sponsoring the attacks, adding that the tactic is to distract the president, constrain the successful delivery of his transformation agenda so as to portray him as non-performing and finally ridicule his score card when time of reckoning comes. The party, in a statement signed by its spokesman, Oliseh Metuh, further declared that Jonathan was being persecuted solely because he hails from a minority part of the country. The party however said Jonathan has performed beyond expectation, arguing that no leader in the history of the country had faced the magnitude of persecution that the president has been subjected to since he assumed office. The statement reads in part: “It is beyond conjecture that the Nigerian version of terrorism is the product of a narrow political persuasion that defies logic and reason. “We accept the reality of terrorism as a global phenomenon; however, the peculiar trend of the Nigerian version which subsists on a welter of nebulous demands and masked identities, hacking down innocent Nigerians -women, children and the elderly in an awful scorched earth fashion, and in an obstinate ridicule of dialogue, defies all reason and logic and only summarises a well considered agenda of national destabilisation for a purely selfish political cause. We pointedly finger the opposition. “We recall statements by some politicians, vowing to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan on the eve of the 2011 general elections, and therefore adjure Nigerians to rise against this brute ideology of violence from which a tiny clique of the political class intends to benefit ultimately. It is the climax of wickedness only heard of the Lucifer in the distant bosom of hell fire.” “Ironically, this is in spite of his humility and his fidelity to the orthodoxy of all democratic norms and values. This is in spite of his proven commitment to the unity and progress of every party of Nigeria irrespective of tribe and religion. Ironically, this is in spite of his proven competence and record delivery of his electoral promises.” The PDP, therefore, commended the president for not only effectively containing the insurgency but beating down distractions and detractions to post unprecedented landmark achievements in all sectors of the economy in the last two and half years he has been at the helm of affairs. The party listed some of the achievements to include the revolutionary efforts in the works sector with the dualisation and rehabilitation of major trunk roads across the country, in addition to the repair of Third Mainland Bridge and the commencement of the works on the Second Niger Bridge. Also listed are the resuscitation of the inland waterways and the railway system which had been abandoned for years, the establishment of Almajiri education system and the setting up of nine new federal universities across the country. Others, according to the party, include the completion and commissioning of key power stations across the country, the new automobile policy, the revolution in the housing sector with the establishment of the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC), the first of its kind in the country, which is tailored to deliver 75,000 houses every year for Nigerians, in addition to a million direct and indirect jobs as well as the Agricultural Transformation Agenda through which six million farmers have received inputs in a programme that targets an increase in domestic food production by an additional 20 million tonnes and creating 3.5 million jobs before the end of 2015. “This is in addition to the investments in job creation through the YouWin and SURE-P projects as well as the widening of the ambit of the PDP ideology of transferring wealth from public institutions to the private sector wherein hardworking private individuals are now thriving in manufacturing, trade, commerce and other critical sectors of the economy”, the party said. It, therefore, called on all well meaning Nigerians to resist those behind the sectarian violence and insurgency in the country and shore up support for the president in his efforts to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people. 
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:45:07 +0000
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