The presidency yesterday spurned the claim
by former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
that the President Goodluck Jonathan led
administration has only performed below
average.
Rather, it rated the administration as having
performed more than any other government
in the history of Nigeria.
Obasanjo had, while responding to a question
about Jonathan’s performance, at the Ake Arts
and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State on
Frday said, “I rate this current administration
below average”, even as he noted that
security was the greatest danger Nigeria is
currently facing.
But senior special assistant to the president
on public affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe who made
the presidency’s position known in a
statement he issued yesterday described
Obasanjo’s rating of the Jonathan’s
administration as untrue, misleading, just as
it does not tally with facts on ground.
He said the, “Comments are untrue,
misleading and clearly do not tally with the
facts on the ground”. He noted that in terms
of performance and achievements, no
administration since 1960 has done as much
as that of President Jonathan.
“Every discerning and unbiased Nigerian will
definitely attest to this fact as the evidence
stare all of us in the face. We will show here
that contrary to Chief Obasanjo’s position, the
Federal Government under President Jonathan
has performed excellently given the
prevailing circumstances and resources
available”.
Okupe further detailed the performance of
the Jonathan’s administration in key sectors
like power, agriculture, industrialization,
transport and works, saying they “are
commendable achievements, which indicate
an administration attuned to the needs of the
people who have for long craved a turnaround
in the sector”.
He wondered why in spite of the war against
terrorism and in view of the other giant
strides and achievements recorded in other
sectors it would not beat the imagination that
anyone would say that President Jonathan had
performed below average in office.
Okupe added: “On the contrary, he has
provided quality leadership and exemplary
vision in transforming the Nigerian Nation
and giving hope to Africa’s most populous
Nation.
“We assert that for a fact a lot has been done.
We may not have reached the desired
destination yet, but surely we are on the path
to getting there. There is no doubt that by
the time the Jonathan administration runs its
full course, Nigeria would have moved further
in its quest to join other world giants and the
quality of life of Nigerians would have
improved greatly”.
Leadership.
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