President Goodluck Jonathan in the last two hours has engaged with the media on different issues ranging from security, to pipeline vandalisation, and education in the country. The journalists were Gloria Ume-Ezeoke of Channels, Nosa Igiebor, Editor-in-Chief Tell Magazine, Sola Oshikeye General Editor of the Sun, Senami Ohiomokhars of AIT and Shehu Dauda. We present our top pick of quote. On security “Security has improved in the country, Maiduguri held the Durbar festival for the first time in four years this year.” On Education, and ASUU “Education is critical to development. I came from a poor family and without education, I would not be here today.” “Within the three years I have been in power I have ensured that every state has one federal university”. ASUU should not capitalize on the infrastructure argument. We were not forced to take inventory, but we did. “We cannot close all the other arms of government to direct our earnings to solve ASUU’s problems. I plead with them to return to class.” And on the standard of living “The standard of living has improved. Before PDP came into power, there were no mobile phones. Now my mother in the village has a phone”. “Even with the floods of December 2012, you will agree with me that the commitment of government is producing results. On the alleged report that Nigeria is bankrupt. “There must be parameters for saying the economy is bankrupt. People are playing politics with these issues; if the FG was unable to pay salaries when it was supposed to doesn’t mean it is broke.” On his ambitions for 2015 “Anything done early will cause troubles, it is clandestine”. Declaring my intentions early will destabilise the system. I did not sign any gentleman’s agreement saying I will not contest a second term.” On Boko Haram, and Abu Shekau “There have been a lot of betrayals as far as Boko Haram is concerned” “You will observe that within Abuja there has been no cases of bomb blasts again, I am not God and I cannot say it will not happen again” “I, as the President, don’t know him (Abu Shekau) and don’t know if he is dead or alive; you journalists will know more than us. You are the ones who talk to Boko Haram.” On Corruption “People take common stealing as corruption. Someone who steals is a thief, it is not corruption; what we are trying to do is to reduce the options for people to be corrupt, make sure there is no free money to be stolen”" “Corruption is high but we see corruption in burials, wedding ceremonies, etc. The perception is high, not the incident itself.” “It is better for 10 criminals to go free than for one innocent person to be punished unjustly” There you have it, our pick of quotes from Mr President. Perhaps we should end with one of the things he said, “When government is doing well it is suppressed but any negative things are blown up”
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:29:21 +0000
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