According to Thisday newspaper, the campaign train of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday hit Ekiti State with the president assuring Nigerian youths of better days if he is reelected.
The president also denounced the All Progressives Congress (APC) mantra that the 16 years of PDP governance had been wasted years, saying those making the comments were only being economical with the truth or jealous of the PDP’s achievements in the country.
The president, who dissected the achievements of his administration and his chances during the February presidential election, stated that the PDP has been able to redefine politics and governance, which were being erroneously interpreted to mean lying to the populace before the advent of the party.
Jonathan spoke at the venue of the campaign rally held at Oluyemi Kayode stadium in Ado Ekiti, where thousands of party supporters had gathered to shore up support for his candidacy.
Meanwhile, the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, his Ondo State counterpart, Olusegun Mimiko, and the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Adamu Mu’azu, asked Nigerians to tell Gen Muhammadu Buhari, to make public his academic credentials for him to be trusted as somebody that is equipped for the job.
Fayose, who flaunted his certificates to the mammoth crowd owing to allegation from the opposition APC that he didn’t attend any school, told Nigerians to reject any president without sound education and health to drive the economy of the country better than what President Jonathan has offered.
President Jonathan assured Nigerians that he had set up a presidential Jobs Board, chaired by Vice-President Namadi Sambo to develop a framework through which two million Nigerian youths can be gainfully employed annually.
He said he was not oblivious of the social ills that abound in allowing over 1.8 million young graduates being injected into the labour market annually remain economically redundant, assuring that his next tenure would focus mainly on youth development and empowerment.
He said: “The next generation of our youths should be employers of labour rather than job seekers and that was why we developed the you-win programme to attract youths into mechanised farming and Small Scale Enterprises, where they used to get loans to set up their own businesses.”
President Jonathan had earlier paid a courtesy visit to the palace of Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe, where the Chairman, Council of Traditional Rulers in the State, Oba Adamo Babalola, described the President as a good man, who can be trusted with power, Thisday reports. (Thisday)