The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that the continuity of President Goodluck Jonathan is the real change the nation needs, insisting that no change could be better than the rapid change experienced by Nigeria in all sectors within the last four years.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, in a statement issued on Tuesday stressed that no administration in the history of Nigeria had within a space of four years achieved as much as Jonathan and accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of being out of tune with reality as the change, which it mouths as slogan, is exactly what the Jonathan-led administration represents.
The party further submitted that the mark of true leadership was the ability to stay the course notwithstanding the level of distraction orchestrated to make the leader lose focus, stressing that President Jonathan has beaten every adversity to achieve an unprecedented transformation of Nigeria.
The statement reads, “What change is greater than an impeccable 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 attitude 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 has 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 Permanent Voters cards (PVCs) in pride as a sign of strength and weapon for the enthronement of the leaders of their choice.
The change, the statement continued, “lies in the continuity of the current infrastructural turn around where a lethargy in the unbundling of the energy sector was swiftly overcome and more power stations completed to up and stabilise power supply as the critical base for accelerated development. The change is where a record 25,000 kilometres, out of 35,000 km of federal roads were either re-constructed or rehabilitated in just four years and railways long abandoned for decades are now back on steam.
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