From Left: Dame Patience Jonathan; President Goodluck Jonathan; Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State; Alhaji Namadi Sambo, Vice President and the Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu during the PDP Presidential Campaign Rally in Asaba, Wednesday.
Cross section of traditional rulers at the event.
From Diana Okon-Effiong, Asaba
President Goodluck Jonathan says he deserves re-election because his administration has programmes for a progressive future for Nigeria.
He stated in an address Wednesday at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential rally in Asaba, Delta State. He said that his administration believed in the unity of Nigeria and in the country to take its pride of place in the comity of nations.
According to him, his administration has empowered Nigerian youths and provided programmes that will position the youths and women for future challenges. While noting that Delta State through his administration’s efforts is playing host to the first Maritime University in Africa, the President also, said that the state was host to a 16 billion Dollar gas city project which would generate employment opportunities for Delta youths and Nigerians.
“We want to make sure that our people go to school that is why we are building the Maritime University in the state, the first in Africa, we are also building the 16 billion dollars gas city in the state, the biggest oil and gas investment in Africa.
“The Maritime University will train our youths to take the rightful place in the Maritime Industry in the world while the Gas City project will provide employment for our teeming youths,” he said.
Jonathan also reiterated that the programmes were designed for Nigerian youths to be equipped for the future, disclosing that his administration has also, empowered those who are in the entertainment industry who were ignored before his administration came into office.
The President who used the occasion of the visit to the state to commission an ultra-modern Government House constructed by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s administration, praised the Governor for being people-oriented in his programmes and policies.
He urged the people and residents of the state Deltans and other Nigerians to vote massively for the PDP in the elections, because, according to him, there is no other political party that is thinking and working towards a more united and developed Nigeria than the PDP.
The Vice-President, Architect Namadi Sambo, at the rally said that re-electing President Goodluck Jonathan would be in tune with modern trend where leaders of countries are less than sixty years of age.
He stated that President Jonathan has to a large extent, addressed the issue of power and has revived the railway lines while the Chairman of the PDP, Dr Adamu Muazu thanked President for his commitment to the unity of Nigeria.
Also, Mrs Patience Jonathan urged the women in particular to vote for President Jonathan stating that the President has given the women voice in his administration and there is no other President who will empower women and youths more than President Jonathan.
Uduaghan who also addressed the rally assured the President of the votes of all Deltans for the PDP noting that President Jonathan deserves re-election because of the success of his human capital development programmes which has seen Nigerian youths excelling in sports, entertainment, education, among other fields.
The Governor stated that the people of Delta were among the greatest beneficiaries of the Human Capital Development programmes of the President because “more than 80 per cent of those in the entertainment industry – actors, comedians, musicians, and those in sports are from Delta State that is why our girls won gold medals at the Commonwealth games.”
Others who spoke at the occasion included the PDP governorship candidate in Delta State, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Cross River State, Sen. Liyel Imoke, his Bayelsa State counterpart, Mr Seriake Dickson, former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, former Chairman of the PDP, Sen. Ahmadu Ali, Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr Steve Oru, also urged Deltans in particular to vote for PDP.
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