President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday promised to fully implement the recommendations of the national conference, if allowed to go for a second term in office.
According to him, if the country must he transformed for good, the report of the national conference must be implemented, even as he said for the report to be fully implemented, a national assembly that works must be put in place.
Jonathan, who spoke when he paid a courtesy call on the Alafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi in his palace in Oyo town, Oyo State, also said with his administration’s power reforms and full privatisation of the sector, Nigerians would take power supply for granted within the next few years.
This is even as the Alafin promised to ensure that the people of Oyo were mobilised to give the President another chance in the forthcoming presidential poll.
The president said he did not influence the report of the confab because he believed that what is good for the country is good for him.
He added that the people of Oyo State will have to vote for all Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Assembly candidates in order to have a legislature well disposed to approving the report.
He said: “We set up the national conference and the report is ready. As a government and as a party, we believe that those who did that report meant well for the country. We gathered almost 500 Nigerians from all walks of life including the traditional institutions, young people, teachers, journalists, lawyers, everybody.
“I never influenced it because I believe that what is good for Nigeria is good for me. And I believe too that if really we want to change this country in a better way, we should implement that report.
“The government and the party are totally committed to implementing 100 percent of that report but we need a National Assembly that will work with us”, he said.
“So, we are using this platform to plead with our people of this great state to support the PDP to send their strong daughters and sons to the federal level to work with us so that we will implement that report because I know how passionate some of you are in terms of that report”.
Restating his determination to reform the power sector in view of its role in the development of small and medium scale enterprises, Jonathan said the privatisation processes were almost completed and the change over phase from public to private sector was ongoing.
His words: “We believe in the next two years, this will be consumated and Nigerians will take power for granted.
“We believe that if you give us your mandate, at least, in the next two years, this epileptic power supply will be a thing of the past and it will be the basis for the growth of micro, small and medium enterprises in this country”.
He said he was in Oyo to inform the Alafin that he was recontesting presidential election with Namadi Sambo as his running mate and to ask for his blessing and prayers. (Leadership)
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