Why
Nigerians think I’m slow – President Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday, 25th
December 2012 explained why most Nigerians believed that his administration was
slow in implementing and responding to some of the people-oriented
policies and projects of the government.
Accoring to him, this was because of his
resolve to avoid taking hasty decisions that may be fraught with
mistakes and which might be more difficult to correct.
The president who stated this during the Christmas
Day service at the Diocese of Abuja Anglican Communion, the Cathedral Church of
the Advent Life Camp, Gwarinpa, Abuja added that the foundation being laid for
infrastructural development would stand the test of time.
According to the president, “By human thinking, our
administration is slow, I won’t say we are slow but we need to think through
things properly if we are to make lasting impact. If we rush we will make
mistakes and sometimes it is more difficult to correct those mistakes.
“I want to assure Nigerians that any step we take
whether little or giant, we won’t go back. And where we need to act fast we
will do so, that we demonstrated with the flood disaster because it required
immediate response.
“Democracy must be dictated by ballot papers and I
think we have achieved that with electoral reform. We will not go back but will
continue to improve.
“For our transformation to be sustained we
Nigerians must be reformed. We must not see our country as where we make money
only and build walls and live as prisoners because of the criminal activities
of few” he said.
The president who was accompanied to the church
service by his family members reiterated that his administration is committed
and will keep faith with its promises.
“At least what we are doing in agriculture,
transportation and power has been noted by the Primate. We have laid solid
foundation for power, agriculture and transport sectors and I can assure you we
will not go back again.
The President also underscored the need for
re-orientation in the country, noting that a situation where some criminal
minded Nigerians vandalise government properties to sabotage government’s
effort must be condemned as such actions are tantamount to the transformation
plan of the government.
“People play politics with things that affect even
their own lives. You wonder why a person that carries saw to go and cut down a
conductor carrying cables that produce electricity, because you want a
government to fail. This happened somewhere in Enugu. You begin to wonder if
they are humans. That is why we need to reform if we must transform” he said.
While emphasising the crucial role of the church in
mobilising support for government, the president said; “The church has a great
role to play if the transformation must succeed because you can’t transform
without reformation and is the role of the church to do so.
“I urge the church to come up with various
programmes to talk about how we Nigerians can be reform.”
Excerpt.. Vanguard News
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