Buhari and Jonathan
Following the emergence of General Muhammad Buhari as All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed has expressed confidence that President Goodluck Jonathan would once again defeat the former military leader in 2015.
The minister who spoke at a press conference yesterday in Bauchi described Buhari as a “permanent presidential candidate” of the opposition who has contested three times and lost.
He said that Jonathan was not afraid of meeting him again at the polls.
Bala said: “We are not people who encourage people to engage in violence because they want to win elections. We are not going to join issues with anybody who is just a permanent aspirant just for running for the presidency. We have a template, we have a road map.
“We have a vision and we know where we want to be and certainly we are not afraid of anybody. We respect Nigerians and we respect leaders. We are not like the other parties who abuse leaders. But with all humility I assure that in 2015, we will be swearing in Dr Goodluck Jonathan as President.”
The minister said Jonathan had done well and should be given another chance to consolidate on the gains recorded.
His words: “Mr President has come up with a transformation agenda and he is working hard to make sure that he brings major and tangible achievements to Nigeria. You have seen it in all the MDAs, even in agriculture he has done so well. We are today the biggest economy in Africa.
“The president has done well as a tested technocrat who has risen through the ranks from a teacher to a deputy governor, to a governor, vice president and then a president and has been tested.
“There is no president that has been so tested with due respect to his predecessors. He came with an agenda well-articulated in 2010 that this is where we want to be in four years and I am part and parcel of that agenda of where we want to be in four years and today you can see the railway functioning.
“We have 35 thousand kilometres of roads in Nigeria today as opposed to only 5000, which were motorable earlier”.
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