"My tenure will end in 2015, I will not contest after" President Goodluck jonathan VIDEO: TRUTH NEVER DIES!
The Paradigm has
flashed-back into time to bring you this news by Vanguard, where President
Goodluck Jonathan vowed not to contest the 2015 elections, as he has not
intention of staying in office beyond his first term.
He made the statement
while on an office visit to Turkey. He said among other things that “if I’m
voted into power within the next four years, the issue of power will become a thing
of the past.”
“Four years is enough for
anyone in power to make significant improvement and if I can’t improve on power
within this period, it then means I cannot do anything even if I am there for
the next four years.”
The President promised
that if voted in for the next four years, he would ensure significant
improvement in key sectors of the economy — security, power, education, road,
health amongst others.
“Without security, there
is no government. So it is not debatable, it is something we have to addressed
and we are working towards that with vigour. But if I’m voted into power within
the next four years, the issue of power will become a thing of the past. Four
years is enough for anyone in power to make significant improvement and if I
can’t improve on power within this period, it then means I cannot do anything
even if I am there for the next four years.”
Jonathan said this while
interacting with Nigerians mainly diplomats working in the United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa, UNECA, and the African Union, AU, in
Addis-Ababa.
While fielding questions
from those present at the interactive session on whether Nigerians abroad will
vote, Jonathan said: “I would have loved that the Nigerians in Diaspora vote
this year but to be frank with you, that is going to be difficult now. Presently,
the law does not allow the voting outside Nigeria and so this year Nigerians in
Diaspora will not vote but I will work towards it by 2015 even though I will
not be running for election.”
On the issue of security,
Jonathan said the government was doing everything possible to arrest the
situation. He disclosed that all those involved in the October 1 bombing had
been arrested and were being prosecuted. He, however, said he ordered the
release of the car dealers because they were just businessmen who could not
have known that the vehicles were to be used for such heinous crime.
On education, the
President said, the nine new approved universities were to be specialised and
to be headed by at least three Nigerians experts in Diaspora.
On the concerns raised of
having a database of Nigerian experts in Diaspora, President Jonathan assured
that he was working on creating a forum for interaction between them and
government and also develop a database, where experts needed to address the
various challenges of the economy will be drawn. He hinted that this was why
the Diaspora Commission was being set up as the bill was already before the
National Assembly.
Did President Jonathan truly lied? The plot thickens, integrity & sincerity deficiency
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