Nigeria Decide: Re: HE Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR; Our collective Mandate & Undisputed President, 2015. The Game is Up & the Heat Is On – My President is ready & PDP is ready as well. “All Progressive (Propaganda) Congress” (APC) lets’ talk 2015…. Let us just look holistically on what my President said on January 8, 2015 in Lagos in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos on the state of the nation since he took over office first as Acting President & now President. Now hear him; The blame game embarked upon by past leaders of the country about its under-development as a cheap escape route, saying the truth of the matter is that His Generation has failed the country. He challenged the Ex-rulers of the country to explain what they did with the defence budgets when they were in power. He said he was only concerned about younger Nigerians who were being fed with lies peddled by the ex-leaders He said the ex-leaders lack the moral rectitude to accuse his government of corruption when, during their tenures they frittered away money meant for procurement of arms for the armed forces without buying a single gun. He said Nigeria’s leadership is no longer for old & senile people lacking in vibrant ideas. I want to address people who are voting for the first time this year, those of you who attained 18years of age this year. I don’t want to address old people like me because we are spent. I am going to address political gatherings in 37 places and I am going to dwell on three major things; whatever I say, when you get back home , call your parents, aunties, uncles that are at least 60years old and confirm what you heard. “2015 is about the young people; either you vote for the young Nigerians to be relevant in Nigeria political history or you vote for you to be irrelevant”. I want to dwell on three things because those who say they want to take over power from PDP have been telling a lot of lies; they have hired people from all over the world to tell all sorts of lies on the social media, painting all kinds of colours & giving me all kinds of baits they cannot defend. “I will address Insecurity, Corruption & insinuations of weak government. On voter’s card, I have directed the INEC that all Nigerian – not 99.9% must vote. Before 2011, no Nigerian complained that he had no voter’s card but we came and insisted that every Nigerian must express themselves. • On insecurity, he accused past leaders, including his direct opponent General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) of weakening the country’s armed forces by starving them of the necessary arms despite funds provided for that purpose. • They talk about insecurity – that they will fight insecurity; are our armed forces weak? If we have a problem, what is the cause? It is equipment. They don’t have the platform. Somebody will wake up and tell young people of 23-year-old that he wants to fight insecurity; ask him, when he was the head of government did he buy one rifle for the Nigerian soldier? • “They refused to equip the military; they didn’t buy anything, no helicopter, nothing. Ask them what they did with their defence budget the whole time they were in office; they didn’t equip. No country equips armed forces overnight because their equipment is quite expensive. Armed forces are built over the years; the capacity is built over a period of time. They refused to build the capacity. They instigated crises and now they are coming to tell us they will solve the problem. Ask them & they will answer”. • On the charge that his government was soft on corruption, he said that more people have been quizzed over the offense of corruption than he is given credit. • “I addressed the anti-corruption agencies on Wednesday January 7, 2015 and I told them that people are deceiving young Nigerians, but they must tell Nigerians what the government is doing”. • “We have arrested more people within this period. We have done more convictions within this period, but everyday they tell us lies. If they have succeeded in fighting corruption, it won’t be with us today. There is no corruption in the fertilizer industry again because of the electronic wallet technique that we developed”. • “If anyone says the best way to fight corruption is to come and arrest you father and uncle and present them on television, you don’t stop corruption that way; you even encourage it that way. We must set up institutions & strengthen them to prevent people from even touching the money. You don’t test people with money, don’t even allow them to touch it. That is what we are working on & we are succeeding. • “They say the military is corrupt, but when this insecurity came up. We had nothing – no arms. So, to get these things quickly, we used vendors to get these procurements, but now what we are doing is government-to-government. Any new procurement for the Navy, Army, Air Force, is government-to-government. Your views/comments please!
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:13:44 +0000
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