President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday urged Nigerians not to lose hope in his administration, noting that things will surely get better in no distant time.
The president said this during a Christmas Service held at the Cathedral Church of The Advent, Life Camp, Gwarinpa, Abuja.
According to Jonathan, the slow pace of his administration was deliberate in order not to make deadly mistakes that would affect the nation and the economy.
Jonathan who read the second lesson of the service, said he would not because of people’s opinions about his government make dangerous decisions that would cost the nation.
He said: “Sometimes, people say this government is slow. Yes, by human thinking, we are slow, but I can say that we are not slow.
“Government must think things properly before it acts. When you don’t think through things properly, or when you rush, you will make mistakes. It is more difficult to correct errors. You can ask those who build houses.
“Government will not, because of the perception, begin to rush. But where we are required to act very fast, we will do so, just like we did during the recent flood disasters.”
He assured Nigerians that his administration would not retrace any of the steps taken towards “laying a solid foundation for the nation’s transformation.”
The president however affirmed that he would work hard to ensure that “the successes” so far recorded in the agricultural sector, transport and electoral process were sustained.
On his administration’s transformation agenda, Jonathan said it was arrived at after a full day debate ahead of the declaration of his presidential ambition in 2010.
He said, “You can’t transform a country without the people being reformed. I call on the church to come up with programmes on how Nigerians can be reformed.
“People play politics with things that affect their own lives. That is why somebody will vandalise power equipment in order to ensure that power reform fails. Such people need to be reformed.”
He enjoined Nigerians not to lose hope in his government, saying that he would deliver all the promises he made during campaign.
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