President Jonathan fires back at Critics

President Goodluck Jonathan

President Jonathan has fired back at critics challenging his government saying that his administration has in last three years performed better than any administration past and present in the country.

The president, while addressing People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts from the north western zone of Nigeria stated that it is blackmail for anyone to say that he is anti-north, insisting that he was the first to establish nine universities in the north at one time as well as the Almajiri schools to emancipate people from the shackles of poverty.

He promised to do everything possible to end menace of the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northen part of the country.

According to Channels TV,

The president called on the ministers of state for works, education, mines, agriculture and power to give a bit of their scorecard one by one in the north western zone in line with the transformation agenda of the administration. 

A former chairman of the PDP and leader of the delegation, Dr Alero Mohammed also reeled out the efforts of the administration and promised to support the president at all times. He also reports that the president called on them to see  the amalgamation which brought Nigerians together  as a source of unity promising to use the national dialogue to cement the bond.