Jonathan threatens to expose the failures of former Presidents

President Goodluck Jonathan has pleaded with Nigerians to vote him in for a second term on account of what he described as his achievements in the last six years.

While inaugurating the Goodluck/Sambo 2015 Presidential Campaign Organisation, PCO, at the campaign office in Abuja, he promised to unfold to Nigerians what his government has done in the last couple of years that presidents and heads of state before him could not achieve.

I will expose my predecessors’ failings –Jonathan
Jonathan promised to expose the failings of his predecessors including Buhari, which stunted the country’s growth and development.

Former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida had described his government as saintly compared to successive administrations in terms of prevalence of corruption, just as former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, took a swipe at President Jonathan, accusing him among other things of squandering $55 billion crude oil savings left behind by his Administration.

Babangida even said it openly that corruption in Nigeria today is too much.

But President Jonathan, who noted that his administration has performed more than the previous ones with the nation’s economy as the largest in Africa, said: “When we start campaigns, we will confront them with what we have done as a government, we will tell them what they did not do when they were heads of state. Some people want to still keep these children as shoe cleaners, we must lift them up. Our children should not be used as cannon folders. They should be allowed to move forward to be governors like us.

“We have everything it takes to run an excellent and victorious campaign. Our great party has demonstrated to Nigerians that it is the party with the broadest appeal. We are the strongest and the biggest. We have engaged the people of Nigeria positively with people-friendly policies, which have moved Nigeria forward.”

He continued: “We have sustained the democratic tradition. We have strengthened democratic institutions. We inherited a rather complex security challenge but we are waging a determined war against it. We are succeeding in preventing terrorists and insurgents from turning more of our communities into enclaves for their dastardly activities."

We have achieved much in four years
“In the last four years, despite the security challenges we have had to contend with, Nigeria, under our watch, has made significant strides in every aspect. Our economy today is the largest and the strongest in the African continent, and a preferred destination for foreign direct investment."