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President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday finally declared to run for the 2015 presidential election under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
All organs of the PDP had few weeks back endorsed Jonathan as the party’s sole candidate for the election.
Jonathan at the Eagle Square venue of the declaration said that he has sought the face of God and consulted his family before deciding to run for the election.
He said: “This labour of love for ordinary Nigerians has increased my labour of love of your solidarity, your trust in our joint destiny and all we have achieved together these past years. Therefore after seeking the face of God and consulting my family and to the call of all people nationwide to run, I Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan has accepted to present myself to run.”
“So many things had inspired me in the journey to this moment. I want to appreciate ordinary Nigerians, especially young people for the solidarity shown me by contributing their meager resources to enable me arrive at this point.”
“I appreciate the kind gesture of the Mitee Allah, the market women association who encouraged me by committing some funds to support me. In the same vein, I’m touched by the widows who also encouraged me by giving me their widow’s mite. I promise to work with all. I see a different Nigeria that the next generation would be proud of.”
The President listed the achievements his administration had recorded in the past three and half years in the areas of roads, transport, housing, job creation, fight against corruption and the eradication of Ebola Virus Disease, among others.
One minute silence was also observed in honour of victims of Monday’s suicide blast in a school in Potiskum, Yobe State.
The President reassured that his administration will do everything possible to defeat terror in the country.
Lamenting the effects of corruption on the nation, he said that graft corrodes national development and has remained a stain in the nation’s life.
He vowed to fight corruption headlong and prosecute those found wanting.
...culled from THE NATION
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