Jonathan promises 10m jobs if re-elected

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, promised to create
10 million jobs within the next five years, to reduce
unemployment rate in the country if re-elected in the February
14, 2015, presidential election.
He made the pledge at the famous Mapo Hill in Ibadan, the
capital of Oyo State, during a rally organised for him by the
Oyo State Presidential Campaign Committee of the PDP,
headed by the Minister of State for FCT, Oloye Jumoke
Akinjide. The National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu, on the occasion, presented the party’s flag to the
governorship candidate of PDP in the state, Senator Teslim
Folarin.
Jonathan stated that he would ensure that his office and the
PDP create at least two million jobs every year through the
Presidential Job Creation Board, headed by the Vice President,
Namadi Sambo, and made up of government officials and
private sectors, adding that statistics at his disposal showed
that about two million Nigerians enter the labour market every
year.
He also said he had not disappointed Nigerians in the
fulfillment of his electoral promises since he was elected
president of Nigeria in 2011, adding that he was at the same
Mapo Hill and other parts of the country in 2011 to ask for the
votes of Nigerians and they voted for him.
Jonathan, who earlier paid courtesy visit to the Olubadan of
Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade, also promised that
the Federal Government would look into upgrading the Ibadan
Airport to an international status.
The monarch, who spoke through one of his high chiefs, Lekan
Balogun, had asked Jonathan to re-open the abandoned dry
port at Erunmu, upgrade the airport at Alakia to an
international status, look into creation of Ibadan State and
give Ibadan a substantive minister instead of the current
minister of state.
“I was here in 2011 to campaign in this great Mapo Hill. You
worked with us, you voted for me and I became the President
of this country. Today, I am here again asking you for your
support. I am sure that talking to you in this great Mapo Hall
today, you will surely support us and we will be victorious.
Then, you voted for us and we have not disappointed you. We
have done a number of projects in Oyo State.”
He recalled that the Federal Government in the past four years
had executed several projects under the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), spent over N10billion in
intervening in tertiary institutions in Oyo State through
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) for institutions
owned by the federal and state governments.
While saying that the Lagos-Ibadan-Kano rail line has been
completed, he said the government has commenced work on
the Lagos-Ibadan light rail project. He also mentioned the on-
going reconstruction and expansion of the Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway.
Jonathan described his administration as one that has really
committed a lot of efforts, to the transformation of agriculture
after the days of the former premier of the Western Region,
the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
On the insecurity and corruption in the country, Jonathan said:
“We are working very hard and surely we will win the war
against terror. Let me reassure all Nigerians that my
commitment and method of solving the problem of corruption
or fighting corruption is not a number of people I tried and
jailed. We have tried more Nigerians and more Nigerians have
been jailed within this period after passing through due
process.
“If I tried 10million Nigerians and jailed five million Nigerians
for corruption that does not solve the corruption problem. So,
for you to solve the corruption problem, you must use modern
technology to prevent people from stealing. This is what we
are working on. “I promise you, if you vote me and I come
back to serve this country for the next four years, the day I
would leave there, the next person that would come as
president of this country would not have to talk about
corruption. We are working on technology and we will use
technology to block all the areas that people are corruptly
enriching themselves. We are no longer in the analogue
generation. So, we must deploy Information Technology (I.T)
to solve our human problems. I will solve the problem of
corruption in this country.”
Jonathan, however, described the people of the South-West in
the opposition as hypocrites, saying: “Those parading
themselves as opposition leaders in the region are hypocrites,
otherwise, how can they be doing things contrary to the
established norms and beliefs of the people?
“The South-West believes in human rights, equity and social
justice. Those parading themselves as leaders, who once
claimed to be part of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO)
are following somebody that just clamped people into jail for
as long as 300 years without following due process.”
The rally was attended by the chairman, Board of Trustees of
the party, Chief Tony Anenih; Governor Olusegun Mimiko, who
is the South-West Coordinator, PDP National Campaign
Council; former governor Peter Obi of Anambra State; Director
of Media and Publicity of the campaign committee, Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode and a host of others.
Jonathan promises /mac
Jonathan promises 10m jobs in 5 years
…Says: ‘I have not disappointed Nigerians’
FROM YINKA FABOWALE and OLUSEYE OJO, IBADAN
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, promised to create
10 million jobs within the next five years, to reduce
unemployment rate in the country if re-elected in the February
14, 2015, presidential election.
He made the pledge at the famous Mapo Hill in Ibadan, the
capital of Oyo State, during a rally organised for him by the
Oyo State Presidential Campaign Committee of the PDP,
headed by the Minister of State for FCT, Oloye Jumoke
Akinjide. The National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu, on the occasion, presented the party’s flag to the
governorship candidate of PDP in the state, Senator Teslim
Folarin.
Jonathan stated that he would ensure that his office and the
PDP create at least two million jobs every year through the
Presidential Job Creation Board, headed by the Vice President,
Namadi Sambo, and made up of government officials and
private sectors, adding that statistics at his disposal showed
that about two million Nigerians enter the labour market every
year.
He also said he had not disappointed Nigerians in the
fulfillment of his electoral promises since he was elected
president of Nigeria in 2011, adding that he was at the same
Mapo Hill and other parts of the country in 2011 to ask for the
votes of Nigerians and they voted for him.
Jonathan, who earlier paid courtesy visit to the Olubadan of
Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade, also promised that
the Federal Government would look into upgrading the Ibadan
Airport to an international status.
The monarch, who spoke through one of his high chiefs, Lekan
Balogun, had asked Jonathan to re-open the abandoned dry
port at Erunmu, upgrade the airport at Alakia to an
international status, look into creation of Ibadan State and
give Ibadan a substantive minister instead of the current
minister of state.
“I was here in 2011 to campaign in this great Mapo Hill. You
worked with us, you voted for me and I became the President
of this country. Today, I am here again asking you for your
support. I am sure that talking to you in this great Mapo Hall
today, you will surely support us and we will be victorious.
Then, you voted for us and we have not disappointed you. We
have done a number of projects in Oyo State.”
He recalled that the Federal Government in the past four years
had executed several projects under the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), spent over N10billion in
intervening in tertiary institutions in Oyo State through
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) for institutions
owned by the federal and state governments.
While saying that the Lagos-Ibadan-Kano rail line has been
completed, he said the government has commenced work on
the Lagos-Ibadan light rail project. He also mentioned the on-
going reconstruction and expansion of the Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway.
Jonathan described his administration as one that has really
committed a lot of efforts, to the transformation of agriculture
after the days of the former premier of the Western Region,
the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
On the insecurity and corruption in the country, Jonathan said:
“We are working very hard and surely we will win the war
against terror. Let me reassure all Nigerians that my
commitment and method of solving the problem of corruption
or fighting corruption is not a number of people I tried and
jailed. We have tried more Nigerians and more Nigerians have
been jailed within this period after passing through due
process.
“If I tried 10million Nigerians and jailed five million Nigerians
for corruption that does not solve the corruption problem. So,
for you to solve the corruption problem, you must use modern
technology to prevent people from stealing. This is what we
are working on. “I promise you, if you vote me and I come
back to serve this country for the next four years, the day I
would leave there, the next person that would come as
president of this country would not have to talk about
corruption. We are working on technology and we will use
technology to block all the areas that people are corruptly
enriching themselves. We are no longer in the analogue
generation. So, we must deploy Information Technology (I.T)
to solve our human problems. I will solve the problem of
corruption in this country.”
Jonathan, however, described the people of the South-West in
the opposition as hypocrites, saying: “Those parading
themselves as opposition leaders in the region are hypocrites,
otherwise, how can they be doing things contrary to the
established norms and beliefs of the people?
“The South-West believes in human rights, equity and social
justice. Those parading themselves as leaders, who once
claimed to be part of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO)
are following somebody that just clamped people into jail for
as long as 300 years without following due process.”
The rally was attended by the chairman, Board of Trustees of
the party, Chief Tony Anenih; Governor Olusegun Mimiko, who
is the South-West Coordinator, PDP National Campaign
Council; former governor Peter Obi of Anambra State; Director
of Media and Publicity of the campaign committee, Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode and a host of others.