Jonathan has failed in his promises to Nigerians – Mamora

Senator Olorunimbe Mamora

All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organization, APCPCO on Monday said that President Goodluck Jonathan has failed in all the campaign promises he made Nigerians in 2011.

Speaking in a press conference in Abuja, the Deputy Director-General of the campaign organization, Senator Olurumbe Mamora said that Nigerians had been subjected to unprecedented suffering because of the failure of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

He said “It is very disheartening to see the level of suffering by fellow Nigerians caused ostensibly by the continuing failure of the PDP administration in the country under President Goodluck Jonathan. This is against the 93 promises made to our countrymen and women when he was seeking our votes in the 2011 elections.”

Mamora who cited the current fuel scarcity in the country as one of the failures of Jonathan said it was unfortunate that an oil producing country like Nigeria would be going through a harrowing fuel experience.

He also gave a detailed account of exorbitant prices of the product within the country, saying that the handlers of the economy had left issues of national importance for attacks on the person of the presidential candidate of the APC, General Mohammadu Buhari.

“We have called this press conference today to draw attention to the worsening fuel supply situation in the country and other sundry matters.

“Across the country, except Lagos and Abuja where fuel scarcity has eased off, due largely to the huge presence of the media and very active Civil Society, the situation in other parts of Nigeria has been that of pains, anguish and frustration. Nigerians struggle daily to buy fuel at Fuel Stations.

“Social and economic activities in most part of Northern Nigeria, South East and South-South have become almost paralyzed from available reports, as fuel scarcity bites harder and stronger. Motorists and other citizens are paying through their noses to buy above official pump price of N87, a price reduction recently hurriedly announced in an attempt to deceive Nigerians for electoral purpose.

“You will recall that at the height of the scarcity of fuel three weeks ago, this government that has failed Nigerians in the last six years turned giving excuses and trading blames for its apparent failures. At some point, they blamed our party, the All Progressive Congress for the fuel scarcity.

“The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC came out afterwards to tell Nigerians the actual reason for this unfortunate development was due to non-payment of about N250b subsidy claims to the Major importers coupled with the unstable foreign exchange rates.

“From the reports we gathered across the states in Nigeria a litre of petrol is selling in Aba at N110, in Benin it is selling at N150, in Uyo a litre is selling at NNPC Mega Station at N97 while other privately-owned fuel stations are selling at N110 per litre. In Kaduna and Northern states the scarcity is biting harder as petrol is selling above N120 with long queues.

“In Port Harcourt and South Eastern States a litre of Petrol sells between N130 and N150 just as it is selling above N100 in Ado-Ekiti and Akure. This is the sorry state of our country today. A major crude oil producing country depends on massive importation of refined petroleum products to meet local consumption.

“These are the issues in this campaign and they are the issues that affect our people. Rather than confronting these issues, the Jonathanians in their Buhariphobia continue to engage in campaign of calumny and hate propaganda against our presidential candidate and other leading lights in our party”, Mamora said.

In the health sector, the deputy director-general also said that the present government has not got the sector working years after.

“Four years after, our health institutions, most especially at the tertiary level have witnessed a systemic decay with doctors’ and other health workers’ prolonged labour disputes never seen in history of Nigeria. Salaries of most health workers at the Federal level have not been paid till date.

“In recent World Health Organization Ranking of the World Health Systems, Nigeria was ranked 187 out of 190 countries. What a pity! South Africa, Angola, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco ranked better than Nigeria despite our oil wealth yet our public officers and their family members travel abroad for most mundane health related matters”, he said.

Consequently, Mamora assured Nigerians that the government of Buhari if elected would right the wrongs of the present government even as he asked president Jonathan to apologize to Nigerians over the purported phone conversation he had with the Moroccan King which he said never happened.

“The APC and its Presidential Candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari are poised to tackle headlong these hydra headed socio-economic problems and give Nigerians a new lease of life. These are the issues in this election and our party the All Progressives Congress will focus on them as we draw closer to the March 28th, Presidential election. It is the date when the destiny of Nigeria will change for good.

“Let me state that we in the APC are outraged and embarrassed beyond words that the Jonathan government can elevate lying as a state policy. The false claim, that President Jonathan spoke to Moroccan King Mohammed V1 when no such telephone conversation ever took place has made Nigeria a laughing stock in the eyes of the world. It is yet another in the series of lying Presidency.
“It was therefore, inappropriate for the President to dismiss a serious diplomatic gaffe with levity and blame some poor, anonymous civil servants for the row. He should just own up, apologize and stop lying, not only this but on several others on which they are culpable. A word is enough for the wise”, he said.