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Buhari does not know the meaning of corruption – Jonathan

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday in Enugu urged the youths not to be deceived by the anti-corruption posture of the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari.
Jonathan, who spoke at a campaign rally organized for him by the Enugu State Government at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium said Buhari and his APC had not exhibited knowledge of the true meaning of corruption.
He said, “if you own a private jet, they will say you are corrupt; if you buy a good car, they will say you are corrupt, but if somebody from South-Africa buys a private jet, they will say it is hard work”.

He, therefore, tasked main opposition party, the All Progressive Congress, (APC) to come up with a blue print for revamping of the economy and tackling corruption.
Jonathan accused the APC of playing politics with corruption in order to get into power.
He recalled that the candidate of the APC in the 2015 General Elections, General Mohamadu Buhari jailed prominent sons of Igboland during his military regime including former Vice President, Alex Ekwueme whom he said was innocent.
He insisted that the best way to stop corruption was to use technology, insisting that one cannot no longer jail people or dump them in prison without trial.

He challenged the APC to emulate the peaceful nature of the PDP presidential rally instead of deceiving the people by telling them that the party when elected into power would fight corruption and revamp the economy.
Jonathan assured that he was fully committed to moving Nigeria forward, recalling that when he became president, he insisted that Nigeria must move forward.
The number citizen of the country expressed optimism that he would emerge victorious in the presidential election in 2015, promising that he would run Nigeria based on global best practices.
Reacting to the allegation that his administration is corrupt, the Nigeria’s President said he was surprised at Buhari,s allegation during his declaration that he was commending people for having private jets.
He defended some private owners of private jets, saying some of them were wealthy businessmen whom other countries appreciate.
According to him, “You can be running with us, you can be running after but you cannot beat us. People want to use their promise to fight corruption to deceive young Nigerians. Somebody tells you he wants to change the Nigeria economy, is he changing it from high tech to analogue. They tell us that they want to change our economy, they should tell us how they want to change our economy”.

Present at the occasion were President Goodluck Jonathan, his vice, Architect Namadi Sambo, former vice President, Alex Ekwueme, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, Governors of Enugu, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Sullivan Chime, Theordor Orji and Godswill Akpabio, PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu among others.

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We’ll humiliate Buhari — South East PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described APC’s cap in hand scouting for South East votes as will-o’-the-wisp, sheer delusion and a mid-day feverish dream, asking the party to forget the zone as
South-Easterners will deliver 100 percent block vote to the PDP in February general elections.
PDP National Vice Chairman, South East, Austin Akobundu, in a statement on Saturday said “the South East apart from being an impregnable forte of the PDP, the APC’s ideology of lies, deceit,
divisiveness and violence is a vexatious stigma that makes support for it a cardinal sin among the peace loving people of the zone”.
“One thing is sure: There is no place for the APC in the South East, so they should not hope to get any vote from the zone. The bitter truth for the party is that the five states of the South East are
solidly in support of the PDP and will deliver a block vote for President Jonathan and all our candidates in the February elections. We therefore wish to advise the APC, its Presidential candidate as well as other candidates not to waste energy in the zone,” the party said.
Stating that “there is no way the South East will choose the APC, which represents anarchy and violence in place of the PDP, which has brought stability and development to the country in the last 15 years”, the ruling party said APC Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, will be humiliated in the elections as he has nothing positive to offer the electorates in the zone in particular and the nation in general.
“When Buhari was military head of state, he did not remember the South East for any concrete project. The only legacy his draconian rule left for Ndigbo was the unjust hounding and jailing of credible South East leaders such as former Vice President Alex Ekwueme and former Governor
of the old Anambra state, Senator Jim Nwobodo through a heartless Kangaroo trial that threw justice to the dogs. The extra judicial killing of innocent citizens is scar that even hyssop can’t wash,” the PDP said.
Arguing that ‘Igbo adighi ahapu ebe a na-echi ozo, gaba ebe a na-aru agwu’, meaning; “no one leaves a princely gathering with prospects of wellbeing, for the house of exorcisms with accompanying gnashing of teeth,” the statement said the South East is solidly PDP.
It therefore advised the APC not to be deceived by the Imo state Governor , Rochas Okorocha and other axial politicians to believe that it has structures in the zone, describing them as a lone voice in a distant ‘ ajo ofia ‘ the evil forest.
“For the APC, a party that holds no promise for the South East either in its unofficial defacto conclave or in its de-jure leadership structure or even in its tentative basketing of offices if the miracle of winning power at the centre ever happens, the people will ill afford a train that leads to nowhere.
The PDP added that it remained the pre-eminent party in Imo State with formidable structures and very popular candidates saying that the citizens are eager to vote out the Governor and end the misrule of the state by APC.
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