APC Blasts Jonathan for Not Basing Campaign on his Achievements
President Goodluck Jonathan
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)- The Director of Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Mallam Garba Shehu, has said the failure of President Goodluck Jonathan to deliver democratic dividends to Nigerians was at the root of the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party to base its campaign on issues.
Garba said because the government of Jonathan had failed, that was why non-issues and abuses have become the order of the day in the campaign of the PDP.
Speaking when he had in audience members of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers in his office in Abuja, Shehu said: “Ordinarily, Jonathan’s campaign should have been based on his achievements.
“They are running against their own records.
“So it would have been for them to present their scorecards to Nigerians rather attacking the presidential candidate of the APC, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, who has not attacked anyone.”
Shehu said contrary to the position being publicised by the PDP, Buhari will not tamper with the free speech of Nigerians.
He said: “Men change.
“Buhari was a military man, but now democrat.
“He will not even censor online.
“The censorship of online will come from the community of users itself.”
Shehu said the APC will work with the online publishers to deepen online journalism.
A former Commissioner for Information in Lagos State and prominent member of the APC, Dele Alake, who was also at the meeting, thanked the online publishers for taking time out to visit the party.
Alake said the coming together of professional journalists to form GOCOP was a good development, adding: “It is a symbol of good things to come.
“Online journalism is the present and future of journalism.
“Most people of voting age are now on social media.
“So whoever takes online media with levity is undoing himself.”
Alake described Buhari as an “ascetic leader.
“He has held plump positions and remains simple.
“He is a disciplined man.
“The fulcrum of the problem we have in this country is indiscipline.
“Now we have an epitome of discipline.
“What we need in this country at this critical juncture is someone who can extricate us from this abyss.
“Governance is not rocket science.
“In four years we can get there.
“We can meet the basic needs quickly by providing low hanging fruits.
“Then move on to medium and long term policies, which can be considered as the high hanging fruits.
“Jonathan lacks the courage to rule this country and also none of his subordinates can look him in the eyes and tell him the truth.
“The country needs a drastic change.
“Especially for our kids.”
President Goodluck Jonathan deliver democratic dividends to Nigerians
As tried in tackling Boko Haram /terorism because Boko Haram is relative new to us and is an issue that need utmost care in handling, as a result of our ethno- Religious divide as a people and this issue can not be done using conventional warfare rather diplomatic warfare .
Furthermore ,the monies spent on the military was for re-trainning/re arming of the military to be in tune with Global standard in fighting terorrism.The Nigeria military is trying .
More importantly , Politicians comment is also instigating violence in the country, with particular reference to General Buhari comment in the aftermath of the 2011 Elections. His recent comment that he will stop Boko Haram if voted into office .The question all Nigerian’s must ask him is that must we wait for him to get into office before he share his idea about Boko Haram issue ? – Then if so ,he is a self centre and un -patrotic ( His position is liking to be like a situation, where we have a child drowning in a swiming pool in a compound and a man passing by or who live in the compound , who feel he can save the child , say he can only do that if he is made the caretaker / Landlord of the house where the swiming pool is situated ) Please Vote for goodluck Jonathan 2015#GEJ4naija
President Goodluck Jonathan has truly transformed transport in Nigeria, making it safer, more reliable, and more convenient. Here are the top 10 ways President Jonathan has improved transport across the country:
1. Through extensive rehabilitation, he has increased the percentage of Federal roads that are safe and motorable from 50% to 83%.
2. He is fixing Nigeria’s roads faster than any government has ever done before! 2,000 km of Federal roads were either built or rehabilitated in 2013 alone. That’s a record for a single year.
3. He is reconstructing and expanding key commercial arteries like the Benin-Ore-Shagamu, Lagos-Ibadan, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Kano-Maiduguri and Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja Highways.
4. Under President Jonathan, approximately 90 Road Support Service locations have been established to provide first response to road accidents and robbery.
5. He has renovated 22 Federal Airports.
6. Under President Jonathan, Nigeria has achieved and maintained US Federal Aviation Administration Category-1 Certification – the highest standard for Air Safety.
7. Under President Jonathan, 6 Airports strategically located close to Nigeria’s food baskets have been established as Cargo Airports for air shipment of perishable goods.
8. He has rehabilitated and revived the Lagos-Kano Rail Service – enabling cheaper movement of people and heavy freight between Lagos and Kano.
9. He has built the Kaduna-Abuja rail line from start to finish. It is the first phase of a 25-year railway development plan that has been ranked among the top 100 infrastructure projects in the world.
10. The establishment of several inland ports and the dredging of key inland waterways has seen waterways passenger traffic grow by 400% and inland waterways cargo volume grow by 100%.
President Jonathan is moving Nigeria forward by improving transport across the country. With all he has achieved, there is still more to be done. On February 14, cast your vote for President Jonathan and the PDP so they can finish the job.
I do not expect you to speak well of president Goodluck because u are of the opposition party, can u mention one thing that Buhari did when he was the head of state? he only went about arresting people he had rifts with, are u aware that Goodluck has transformed the railway system? he has gone as far as constructing roads, women empowerment, youths empowerment, improved the agricultural sector, approved the freedom of information bill which your tyrant Buhari would never have done, to mention but a few. if I were u I will vote for President Jonathan he is the only man who knows what freedom and human right is.#GEJ4Naija.
How long should the APC countinue to make noise around like a wounded lion! this simply shows that they lake focus and vision for Nigerians even if they are voted into office in 2015.President Goodluck Jonathan has delivered the to Nigerians the promises he made in the term of raod construction, Agriculture, Eduction etc.Vote $ GEJ#GEJ4Naija
President Jonathan administration did not fail, He fulfil his promises during the campaign 2011. first to deliver on Nine New Varsities to accommodate the growing number of admission candidates, first to follow due process / rule of law in government conduct, first to promise Almajiri school, promise kept,
first to pay attention to local and international airport. first to give 35% political position to women. etc. He has never uses abusive words on his campaign rather than his opposing parties. APC candidate GMB has been abusing himself, educational, morally, politically, and otherwise.
I bet u mr Garba as soon as Buhari becomes president he will make u hate this nation, he is not qualified to run for the office, contrary to what u said about Goddlucks competency, he is equal to the task, Buhari lacks coordination, he is just a bush army man who only obeys the word kill, that is all he knows, tell him to go and take care of his grandchildren we don’t need him anymore. #GEJ4Naija.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, unlike all other politicians does not boast of having a magic wand that can transform the country over night. Instead, like a good manager, he draws up his road maps with milestones achievements leading to the desired results. He has never been involved in the use criticism as a propaganda machine or in the castigation of the opposition party as this would enable him focus on the business of governance but in turn, allows himself to be criticised, so that he can utilize the constructive elements in the criticism to strengthen his strategy to meet the legitimate needs and yearnings of the citizenry. As a man of humble beginning, the President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration has been charged with the leadrership of a large and diverse entity called ‘NIGERIA’, thus his achievements thus far cannot be over-emphasized. As the saying goes, “Great presidents are made out of horrible circumstances combined with character and intelligence”. Flowing from this therefore, the achievements of President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan in transforming Nigeria in the past four years can be unmatched and unchallenged by any previous successive regimes in the country.
In the past four years of President Goodluck Jonathan’s been in office as the president of Nigeria, there has been major successes, minor flaws, and giant leaps. Sadly, the Nigeria media tends to focus more on minor flaws and setbacks inherent in his government and thus making broadcast and publications on trivial issues in the polity, thereby heating up the polity. Major achievements in the area of Education, Transportation, Economy, Infrastructure, Agriculture, Health e.t.c were recorded by the President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration in the past four years. It is to this end that this article is directed and comprehensively analysed. This five major achievements has been summarized into sub- headings and it focuses on five major aspects which include: Education, Transportation, Economy and Agriculture, Infrastructure, and Health.
why are we Nigerians so ungrateful we can not give credit to a man who is trying all his best to make sure thing go well in this country,president jonathan connect and listen to young people across online and traditional platform ensuring that voices of young Nigeria are in coporated in policy formation and gorvernance
its quite funny reading stuffs like this, it only goes to show the level to which one can be blinded by sentiment and or party affiliation. saying the present administration hasnt done anything is not just false but a show of lack of truthfulness and morality. some weeks back his principal in the person of Buhari, was pictured in one of the trains brought about by this administration. it wasnt the PDP that carried out the re basing of the economy and declared it the largest economy in africa. the Benin-ore road that has claimed lives as well as the lokoja-abuja express way that were fixed amongst others. the successes recorded in the up grade of our airport, the fertilizer story. I could go on and on to name many success story of this present administration that are open to verification and not just some cheap lies and propaganda been spreaded by the opposition. GEJ has proven he his capable of bringing the change we all crave for. GEJ4NAIJA
Mallam need to ask himself a very simple question if he did not know what President Jonathan has done or Nigerians. Most of the controversies we have that is causing all this is as a result of what APC has caused as a result of reactions to Buhari’s comment in 2011 that he will make Nigeria ungovernable if Jonathan win the election. If he said APC does not contribute to all the abusive comments on the media, social services etc, he should go and play APC rally in Port Harcourt what Amaechi said concerning Wike as part of their campaign. I think Mallam should be objective and be a patriotic Nigerian. Mallam Garba, if Nigerians remove Buhari from APC what will be the likes of him and the others? are they credible people or aggrieved people who out of selfishness want to contest by all means?
-IT baffles me alot the way Mallam Garba Shehu talk about the president transformetion in Nigreia when he can see it, talks about Education,Agriculture,power and transpot, so pls can we been real 4 once not 4 the people of Nigreia but 4 ourselves.
As at 1977- 1983 when Buhari was the minister of petroluem corporation US$2.8 billion disappeared from Midland Bank London account of the Nigerian Petrolium Cooperation, (NNPC).
– In 1998 when Obasanjo returned to power in may 1999 as a civillian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming REFERENCE SITE .http://www.elombah.com/news/node/4155. this was trace to his foreign account in London and when Vera ifudu commented on it she was sacked. article public Published on Monday, 08 November 2010 21:17 Written by Dr Emmanuel O. Fashakin #GEJ4NAIJA
Mallam Shehu is not having something real good to say. they is no single sense in what he has said.this is just a political talk, saying all these false story in order to bring GEJ down.
Mallam really need to say the truth, he knows what President Jonathan has done,the problems we are having in Nigeria was caused by all those people who come together now calling themselves APC, Buhari vow to make Nigerian ungovernable and that is what has been happening since the government started. To instigate problem is not only when someone come out openly to talk but when you create avenues for such issues. If I ask Mallam Garba now a question, is he a credible patriotic Nigerian?
can Garba tell us ways President jonathan has impeded on the freedom of speech of Nigerians when infact it was in jonathans regime that the freedom of speech bill in Nigeria say the lime light.#GEJ.
APC Chieftain are the sack members of PDP that has nothing much to do but to condemned someone who had earlier done more than enough in their state of Jurisdiction
most of the APC chieftains are mostly PDP failures who couldn’t achieve their selfish interest before decamping to APC.Now these decampees from PDP have found solace in APC to achieve the selfish ambitions they coulnt in PDP.lets not forget that President Jonthn was a lecturer bright and intelligent to stand amongst presidents of the western world,can Buhari who has no certificate be able to express himself on foreign visits to other countries without the use of gun? I doubt.GOODLUCK is a one man one vote leader,ask governor Oshiomole whos from APC he will confirm it.
Since taking office, President Goodluck Jonathan has followed through on the ambitious plans laid out in his Transformation Agenda, delivering significant achievements across all states of the nation.
Improved tenera oil palm nuts for oil palm estate in Bayelsa state to enhance oil palm production
Ended four decades of corruption in the fertilizer sector. Implemented the e – wallet system for the distribution of agricultural inputs to farmers.
Implemented Dry Season farming projects
Established the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa.
Established the SURE-P Project on Primary Health Care.
NDDC Electrification Projects in Peremabiri – Ogbokiri in Akassa Bayelsa State
Established Maritime Facilities at Niger Delta University, which will enhance the development of the maritime sector through capacity building of youth.
Commenced the Central Ogbia regional water project, which is 35% complete and will provide safe water and sanitation to the community on completion.
epitome of discipline…hmm, i guess that includes house arrest. ”i see imprisonment instead.”
lets go to polls
#GEJ4naija Goodluck is for transformation and Buhari is for change. I would rather go for transformation than go for change.
you guys should shutup !!! if you re feeling the impart maybe you re stealing from where you re working and since those who re corrupt can steal in all pdp government and go free then you need to say it loud that Jonathan has done much. we need someone who can stop corruption and people like you who support ebere will have to run out of the country so that the masses will enjoy.God help us.