DEBATE-JonathanSpeaking in Abuja during the second session of the presidential debate organised by the Nigerian Elections Debate Group, NEDG for presidential candidates of six political parties held at the International Conference Centre, President Jonathan said, “Elections will be conducted as scheduled for March 28 and April 11 as fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The government in these fours years has improved in all the sectors and in the next four years, we will consolidate, we will move forward, we will leave legacy for our children, we cannot think of going backward.”
APC shuns debate
The parties that took part in the second session of the debate were the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; National Conscience Party, NCP, United Democratic Party, UDP, KOWA Party and United Peoples Party, UPP, just as the Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) was the only presidential candidate who failed to attend the debate.
The Presidential candidates were Professor Oluremi Osonaiya of Kowa Party, Chief Martin Onovo of NCP; President Goodluck Jonathan of PDP; Godson Okoye of UDP and Chief Chekwas Okorie of UPP.
During the last lap of the debate, which was moderated by veteran broadcaster, Eugenia Abu of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA and two-man panellists, Martins Oloja, the editor of The Guardian newspapers and Professor Pate, candidates were asked questions on issues of insecurity, corruption, education, agriculture, educational sector, among others.
…President seeks for more time to consolidate
President Jonathan, who urged Nigerians to vote for him to enable his government consolidate on the various achievements it had recorded in the last four years, however revealed the change in the security architecture in the north east ,which included the use of drones to monitor the activities of the Boko Haram terrorists in the North east, which has sufficiently changed the tide against the terrorists.
According to the President, apart from government’s commitment to ensuring that the country was freed from the terrorists, government has put in place measures to reconstruct the north east and to rehabilitate the people affected by the insurgency.
On plans to rebuild N’ East
He stated that apart from normal budgetary provision of funds to reconstruct the areas affected by the insurgency, government has set up the Presidential Initiative for the North East and the safe School Initiatives in order to ameliorate the sufferings of the people of the area.
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