Jonathan blasts Buhari: 'You want tofight fight insecurity, yet you could notequip Nigerian soldiers as Head of state'

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his strategy for
combating corruption is not by indiscriminate arrest and jail
of people.
Speaking to party supporters at the flag off of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos on Thursday, Mr.
Jonathan said that the best way to tackle corruption is to
strengthen public institutions.
“I stand by due process. Any country that does not respect
due process is a jungle,” Mr. Jonathan said.
“They say to be strong is to jail people indiscriminately. For
300 years. Is that where you want to go?”
The President began his speech by stating that he was
addressing young Nigerians who would be voting for the
first time.
He asked them to verify from their elderly uncles and
aunties the truth about Buhari’s government in the 80’s,
adding that they must choose between a vote to be relevant
or be treated as a “nonsense person”.
“They said they will fight insecurity. When he (General
Buhari) was Head of State, did he buy one rifle for the
Nigerian soldiers?
“Ask them what they did with the defence budget.”
President Jonathan also used the opportunity to apologize
to federal civil servants for the delay in their December
salary, attributing it to the IPPIS system which, he said,
shut down after officials attempted to divert some of the
salaries.
Mr. Jonathan also laughed off media reports that the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND,
had thrown their weight behind the opposition All
Progressives Congress, APC.
“Orkar, the leader of MEND, is in South African prison
because he was procured by some Nigerians to assassinate
me,” Mr. Jonathan said.
“The man who is in South African prison for killing
Nigerians is endorsing some people.”
Earlier, President Jonathan and his ruling PDP had officially
opened their campaign towards next month’s presidential
and governorship elections in Lagos, with a vow to emerge
victorious at the polls.
The president and all PDP state governors made the
declaration at the Tafawa Balewa Square.
In his opening remarks, Ahmadu Ali, the Director of the
Jonathan-Sambo Campaign Organisation, said that the
PDP, unlike the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC,
belongs to all Nigerians.
“The PDP is not the exclusive preserve of an individual who
has turned Lagos into a cow to be milked,” said Mr. Ali.
Tunji Shelle, Chairman, Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP),
Lagos State, on Thursday said the impressive turnout at the
party’s rally in Lagos indicated support for the re-election of
President Goodluck Jonathan.
The party later presented its flags to the governorship
candidates of the respective states. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS

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