Obi satisfied with PDP campaign so far

The Deputy-Director Gen­eral of the National Cam­paign Council of the Peo­ple’s Democratic Party ( PDP), and former Governor of Anam­bra State, Mr. Peter Obi has de­scribed the PDP campaign so far as “satisfactory, mature and to the point”, Obi was speaking to newsmen yesterday at the wedding reception of the Presi­dent’s daughter, Inebharapu, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

Obi said he was happy that the President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, had remained restrained, matter of fact and admiringly civil in his campaign utterances, even when some people in the oppo­sition castigate him. His words: “The campaign has so far been exhilarating. If you have followed it closely, you would have dis­covered that it is Mr. President’s essential nature that has made the campaign not to generate into abuses. When the opposition wanted it to look like a fight in the jungle, Mr. President has always, through his benign responses re­inforced the fact that campaigns should be more of debate and in­sight into issues and not raining of abuses on one another. Even few times he appeared to be defensive, was in response to unsubstantiated lies against him by the opposi­tion.”
On the reasons why he thinks Jonathan is the best man for the job, Obi said his achievements speak for him. He insisted that there is no sector the government of Jonathan has not touched. “The other day, the trains that stopped running in the country over 30 years ago came back on tracks. Under him our airports are witnessing the type of infrastructural upgrade the sec­tor had not witnessed in the past. In the area of agriculture, salient, verifiable reforms are the order of the day. In education, we have seen the attention to the needs of the country made manifest in the special schools for almajiris and our migrant population. He has also, in four years, established 12 new universities, thus making it possible for all the States in the country to have at least one fed­eral university. In the challenging power sector, the unbundling of the generation and distribution into private hands will make the sector witness the type of revolu­tion this country witnessed when telephone was privatilised. In terms of security, it is under him that the real equipping of the army started. Above all, much as we re­spect old age and pray to grow old like our fathers of today, we must admit that age is more on the side of President Jonathan. Still under 60, he has the energy to carry on his shoulders, the stress and storm of governance”, Obi said.
Calling on Nigerians to support Jonathan and vote him in the sec­ond time, Obi said it would offer him the opportunity to consolidate on his Transformation Agenda through which he was charting a new course for the country.
Concluding, Obi called on the opposition to see the campaign as a time to engage the electorates on policies and plans of the govern­ment and not a time to cook up lies and serve them with peppered sauce.   
      SOURCE:SUN NEWS