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Why Jonathan Will Win in 2015 - By Reno
Omokri

The Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New
Media, Reno Omokri writes on why he believes the
president will win in 2015. Read below and tell us what
you think...


My dear brothers and sisters, a number of you have
asked me, particularly on Social Media, why I think
President Goodluck Jonathan deserves your vote. I
will use this space to answer that question
headlong and unequivocally, because I believe with
every fiber of my being that reelecting President
Jonathan is the best course of action that
Nigerians can take if we do not want to go back to
the old ways in which the government dictated to
us rather than related to us.
Everything about the emergence of President Jonathan
as the candidate of the PDP shows his party and it's
candidate as the only truly national candidate. The
National Convention in the Federal Capital Territory,
which is known as the 'Center of Unity' was auspicious
and befitting as the PDP is the only political party that
projects one united and indivisible Nigeria.
Nigerians can take pride in the PDP and its pan Nigerian
credentials. The party does not have regional bases. The
whole nation is its base.
The ruling has a unique ability to unite as a party that
goes on to unite Nigeria as a nation.
The PDP is the largest party in Africa and under this
banner, we have grown our economy to the point where
it is now the largest economy in Africa proving that as
the PDP grows stronger, Nigeria grows stronger.
And with all due respect, the choice between the PDP's
candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan and the
opposition's candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari is
clear.
Lagosians who are today escaping Lagos traffic via the
air conditioned Goodluck train must be under no illusion
that this service just appeared from nowhere. No. It
came about via a visionary long term plan whose
ultimate goal when fully implanted will see a Lagos-
Ibadan High Speed metro line that will enable people
live in Ibadan and work in Lagos. The contract was
signed in August 2012 for $1.5 billion and the
management of the Chinese Firm CCECC has mobilized
to site.
The project itself, being part of the Interstate Rail
Project, has been listed by KPMG as one of the world's
top 100 infrastructure projects!
This is a fulfillment of the idea that Alhaji Lateef Kayode
Jakande had way back in 1982-3 but which was delayed
when the military thought they had murdered that idea
by canceling the project. But that project has been given
new life today by the President Goodluck Jonathan
administration because as Thomas Sankara said "you
cannot kill ideas".
Some people erroneously think that President Jonathan
will not do well in the 2015 election in Katsina State, but
the people of Katsina will vote for President Jonathan
because he built the only Federal University in Katsina
state as well as the only 6 Almajiri schools in that state.
Before the ascension of the President to power, Katsina
and 11 other states had no Federal Universities.!
The 2015 election is about records. The President has
his record and the opposition have theirs.
The days of selling a candidate based on his ethnicity,
region and religion must go forever. 2015 must be about
issues, records and ideas!
I, Reno Omokri, am proud to say that President
Jonathan has never publicly or privately called for
violence or bloodshed.
President Jonathan's has bequeathed a good Human
Right Record to Nigeria. No political Prisoners exist in
Nigeria. No one is imprisoned for their views under
President Jonathan. What is the opposition's Human
Right record?
When President Jonathan took office in 2010, it used to
take an average of 7-8 hours to go from Benin to
Lagos. Today, after the reconstruction. (Not repair) of
the Benin-Ore road, that same journey can be done in 3
hours and the President sent the Coordinating Minister
for the Economy, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to
undertake the journey and verify the Estimated Travel
Time on that road.
Some people say the opposition is coming to fight
corruption and I ask them if they have seen the latest
Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency
International 2 weeks ago?
Under President Jonathan, Nigeria progressed 8 points
upward in the scale proving that the President is
tackling corruption headlong.
The major progress Nigeria made in the 2014 Corruption
Perception Index released by Transparency International
are the result of the clinical surgical incision made by
President Jonathan at the root of corruption in Nigeria.
Gone are the show trials that glorify style over
substance with media prosecutions that do not lead to
convictions. Under Jonathan, Nigeria has had more
corruption convictions than at any other time and
Transparency International noticed.
Remember that the Fertilizer Procurement and
Distribution sub sector of the Agricultural sector was a
veritable channel of corruption. Billions of dollars went
into private pockets as middlemen inflated costs and
supplied adulterated products to farmers. But under
President Jonathan's watch, 14 million farmers were
registered by the Ministry of Agriculture who connected
them directly to the product through an e-wallet system
by which the Agriculture ministry send texts to farmers
to go and pick up their fertilizer and seeds direct from
their locality.
What greater anti corruption credential can you have
than to weed out 50,000 ghost workers from the Federal
Civil service saving Nigeria almost 350 billion Naira per
annum?
As I speak to you, the Abuja-Kaduna Rail project has
been completed, under budget and under the time frame
for which this administration promised which is as a
result of the new efficiency of the Federal Civil Service
which, through the Federal Ministry of Works, had been
able to supervise the contractors efficiently because no
kickbacks exchanged hands.
My brothers and sisters, as I unveil my candidate to you,
I am confident not only that he will win the 2015
Presidential elections based on his record, I will further
call on you and other well meaning Nigerians, that If you
value human life, please urge INEC to make candidates
take an oath not to incite violence when they lose in
2015.
I sometimes wonder if the opposition think that
President Jonathan is a time traveller. Why do I say so?
When the opposition says Nigeria's problem is Jonathan
perhaps they should explain why we had problems when
some of them where in power. Is it that President
Jonathan travelled back into the past to create the
problems they faced?
They say that President Jonathan has not achieved
anything.
In that case is it that President Jonathan bribed the UN
to say that Nigeria's average Life Expectancy rose from
47 to 52 years under his administration, or he bribed the
International Monetary Fund, IMF, to promote Nigeria to
a Middle Income Nation in 2013 from a Low Income
Nation before that? Or he bribed KPMG to list our
interstate High Speed Rail project as one of the world's
top 100 infrastructure projects? Did he compromise the
International Food Policy Research Institute to say that
hunger has reduced in Nigeria under Jonathan from 16%
to 14.1%?
I am not saying that Nigeria's problems are all solved.
How could they be? It took us 50 years to get to the
point we were before President Jonathan became
president in 2010. Surely it will take us more than four
years to get out of the problems we faced for half a
century.'
But one thing I can say is that we are making progress
under President Jonathan. Elections are now free and
fair and we have bade farewell to do or die elections.
People can say what they like and be assured of
freedom of speech and freedom after the speech.
The era of politically motivated assassinations are
gone.
Our railways have been revived, our major highways have
either been revived or are in a state of being revived.
All those 12 states that did not have universities prior
to Jonathan's ascension now have universities.
In today's Nigeria, you cannot name a state in Nigeria
where Jonathan has not built either a brand new
university, a secondary school, a hospital or a new road!
President Jonathan knows that a mind is a terrible thing
to waste thus Jonathan built 150 schools for Almajiri.
And then some say that he has only scratched the
surface. My response to them is that if previous
administrations had likewise scratched the surface, we
won't have 12 million children out of the formal
education system in Nigeria!
President Jonathan is building schools in every state
because if disadvantaged kids had schools in the 80s
they would not have grown up into adults that believe
that books are haram!
Those regions that did not have international airports
before Jonathan now have.
Today, Hyundai, Kia and Nissan have opened up vehicle
manufacturing/assembly plants in Nigeria even as the
government, most especially the Presidency, is
patronizing Innoson cars as official cars.
Nigerians want stability in their leader. You won't marry
a person who jumps from relationship to relationship,
so why support a Presidential aspirant who jumps from
party to party?
From 1999 till today, President Goodluck Jonathan has
remained in one party come rain come shine. Who in the
opposition can make such a claim?
Nigerians want to know what a candidate will do for
them. They do not want to listen to candidates bicker
like motor park touts. Even those that do not support
the President or the PDP have at least heard of the
Transformation Agenda. Have you heard of the
opposition's agenda?
As elections approach, expect more panic attacks from a
party that spent its time insulting and criticizing the
President instead of selling its ideas to Nigerians.
They say that they will form a parallel government if
they lose in 2015. Under Jonathan, elections held in
Edo, Anambra, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun. Which of them
were rigged? Why is APC rejecting 2015 elections in
2014?
My brother and sisters, never allow those who swore
that they were determined to make some parts of
Nigeria "ungovernable" shake you and turn your focus
from the verifiable progress Nigeria is making under
President Goodluck Jonathan. I can assure that just as
he said when he declared his interest to contest the
2015 Presidential elections, under President Jonathan's
leadership, Nigeria "will never go back to the old ways"!
Reno Omokri

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