President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday promised that he would not run a
government of intimidation if re-elected for the second term during the
February 14 presidential election.He said he would run a government that
would allow Nigerians to express their minds without any fear of
intimidation.Jonathan made the promise during the Peoples Democratic
Party presidential rally held at the Metropolitan Square, Ilorin, Kwara
State.He said he would not preside over an administration under which
Nigerians would be thinking they are in a zoo, where small animals would
be afraid of the big ones.He said, “My message to you is that we will
work with you to ensure that Nigerians are free.“We will ensure that you
are not governed by intimidation.“You must be able to express yourself
without fear of intimidation. That is why I signed
the Freedom of Information Act.“We will not allow a situation where
Nigerians will think they are in a zoo, where small animals are afraid
of the big ones.”He said his administration was forming a government of
young minds because of its conviction that Nigeria belonged to the
youth.He said since the inception of his administration, he had shown
commitment to repositioning the country.The President said his
administration had done so much that he would not disappoint
Nigerians.He mentioned some of the areas his administration had made
giant leaps to include railway, health care, agriculture and the
economy.Jonathan recalled that the nation’s economy had grown under his
watch to become the largest in Africa.This, he said, was not achieved by
chance.He said the feat was achieved by the commitment of the economic
team that was working day and night.The President said world bodies such
as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Cable News
Network and others had spoken in support of the visible growth in the
nation’s economy.He wondered if Nigerians who criticised his
government’s economic policies were more brilliant than the world
bodies.President Jonathan warned such people to stop deceiving
Nigerians.Earlier, Vice President Namadi Sambo had said that the present
administration had transformed the nation’s economy to become the best
in Africa.He said the administration transformed the power sector to a
stage that the nation now generates over 4,000MW contrary to the about
2,000MW at the inception of their administration.He also noted that the
Federal Government had reformed the transport sector by adding 20,000km
of tarred roads to the nation’s road network.In the education sector,
Sambo recalled that 12 federal universities were established by the
administration, saying Jonathan deserved a second term.The National
Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, regretted that some people
were trying to rubbish the President’s achievements for political
gains.He said the President had performed better than all his
predecessors.“The President has performed more than the others that have
come before him. No Nigerian leader before him has done as much as he
is doing,” Mu’azu said.
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