The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that no change
could be better than the rapid change in all sectors which
Nigeria has undergone in the last four years, declaring the
continuity of President Goodluck Jonathan as the real
change the nation needs.
A statement by the national Publicity Secretary of the PDP,
Olisa Metuh, Tuesday said no administration in the history
of Nigeria has turned in high flying, all sector delivery in
its first four years as Mr. Jonathan’s.
Mr. Metuh said in adopting “change” as its slogan, the APC
has shown it is out of tune with reality as change has since
begun under the present administration.
The party said the mark of true leadership is the ability to
stay the course notwithstanding the level of distractions
orchestrated to make the leader lose focus.
He said that President Jonathan has beaten every adversity
to achieve an unprecedented transformation of Nigeria.
“What change is greater than an unimpeachable delivery
in both fundamentals and incidentals of democracy? The
basic and true test of democracy lies in the level of
freedom available to the citizenry, in the separation of
powers and in the value attached to the expressed wishes
of the people in timely polls. To these cardinals of
democracy, President Jonathan has been a slave!
“The change lies in the change of values and attitudes
towards decades-long corruption as occasioned by the firm
stand of President Jonathan on zero tolerance and in
establishing the Freedom of information law which have
made Nigerians discuss freely and expose corruption while
government battle the ill within the ambit of the law.
“Today under President Jonathan, Nigerians relish in all
fundamental freedoms even to a level where the opposition
denigrate the person and the office of the President, yet no
one is harassed and none, a political prisoner. Besides, the
legacy of credible elections instituted in 2011 has gathered
enough steam with President Jonathan’s insistence on one
man, one vote. Votes now count and for the first time in
our recent history, Nigerians raise their voters cards (PVC)
in pride as a sign of strength and weapon for the
enthronement of leaders of their choice.
“The change, the statement continued, lies in the continuity
of the current infrastructural turn around where lethargy
in the unbundling of the energy sector was swiftly
overcome and more power stations completed to up and
stablise power supply as the critical base for accelerated
development. The change is where a record 25,000 out of
35,000 km of Federal roads were either re-constructed or
rehabilitated in just four years and railways long
abandoned for decades now back on steam.
“There can be no better change better than in the
diversification of the economy and where the investment
friendly environment created by the Jonathan
administration has buoyed up the economy with local and
foreign investments; importantly, strengthening genuine
local entrepreneurs for global competition, with
automobiles for example now manufactured Nigeria.
According to the PDP, “the change that Nigerians yearn for
is that which consolidates the capacity of a leader who
established fourteen new federal universities in four years;
holds close to the heart, the future of the children of the
poorest of the poor in establishing the Almajiri and out-of -
school children education system.”
“The change lies in that leader who knowing the critical
importance of health and agriculture in directly impacting
on the wellbeing of the citizens engineered a radical
change that removed a corrupt fertilizer and other agro-
input distribution mechanism, gingering productivity by 9
metic tons of food and shutting down food import by USD
5.3 billion in 2014 while creating over 2.7 million direct
farm jobs. He also repositioned health services, returning
federal health institutions to real referral centres of
excellence with capacity for treating all ailments and
raising life expectancy to 53 years from 49years.
The PDP further charged that the opposition slogan of
change is a mask for their inability to fashion out an
alternative roadmap to greatness, urging Nigerians to ask
them if their meaning of change is a return to ‘ Egypt’
where Nigerians queue up for days to buy petroleum
products or the reversal of the realty of today where
indigenous Nigerian oil and gas companies have been
empowered and are now masters of the turf.
“We wish Nigerians to ask whether change means a return
to an era where governments bought no single weapon for
the armed forces to build its strength and make it
formidable.
“Nigerians deserve to know whether change means a
throwback to the time where instead of using institutional
means to fight corruption within the ambit of the law,
government would use extra judicial instruments to
deprive Nigerians of the very essence of democracy in the
name of fighting corruption.
According to the statement, ” since no one changes a
winning team, more so where the opposition has no better
alternative except in sloganeering ‘change’, the change
remains the continuity of the excels of the present PDP
government, through a leader who has shown absolute
faith in God, fidelity to the laws of the country and respect
for the rights of his compatriots.”

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PDP is the change Nigeria needs. GEJ has really tried for Nigeria. The oppositions are not sincere to themselves just because of their selfish interest that's why they are making a noise about change. Change from GEJ to Buhari is unthinkable. Nigerians open your eyes. Vote wisely. Buhari is not a match to GEJ in any way at all. Buhari is inexperience in democratic governance and will spend the whole tenure learning democracy.