FEW days to Democracy Day celebration, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), on Sunday, said the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan performed poorly in its two years in office.
In what appeared its score sheet on the administration, tagged: Jonathan’s mid-term tenure as elected president, and signed by its national publicity Secretary, Mr Rotimi Fashakin, the party claimed the administration had failed to make any significant impact in any strategic part of the nation’s life.
“The performance score-card on the economy, security, education, youth employment, foreign relations and infrastructure development reveals overall dismal failure,” it stated.
Contrary to the denial by the presidency on Saturday, the CPC still fingered the administration in the split in the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), because of an alleged second term bid of the president in 2015.
“The president’s leadership of his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as a microcosm of his leadership of the nation in the last two years, is worthy of note. The governors, elected on the platform of the PDP, who have shown aversion to his desire for re-election, have been treated with utter ruthlessness.
“A noxious desire to truncate Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s chairmanship of the NGF had seen the birthing of new platforms for PDP governors. The bilious discontent arising from the elections for the new chairman of the NGF bears the imprimatur of the presidency,” the party added.
Reiterating its call on the president to quit , the CPC said it considered unacceptable the steep governance of the nation in the last two years, because, in the opinion of the party, the priorities of President Jonathan “are at variance with the political and economic health of the nation.
Giving a sector by sector analysis, the CPC said the country had never had it so bad in the education sector, as the party alleged that Nigerian students recorded failure in Mathematics and English more than in any other time in the nation’s history.
It noted that in the 2013 federal budget of N4.92 trillion, the allocation of N426.53 billion to education was a mere 8.67 per cent, far below the UNESCO recommendation of 26 percent of the total budget.
The CPC alleged that the president’s brand of politics had brought more negative effect to the political arena, because Jonathan was preoccupied with securing another mandate than in working for the Nigerian electorate.
“Posters of president’s electioneering campaigns for the 2015 election have continued to adorn our cities, with hypocritical denials from government. It did not matter that no arrests have been made of the culprits,” it added.
In what appeared its score sheet on the administration, tagged: Jonathan’s mid-term tenure as elected president, and signed by its national publicity Secretary, Mr Rotimi Fashakin, the party claimed the administration had failed to make any significant impact in any strategic part of the nation’s life.
“The performance score-card on the economy, security, education, youth employment, foreign relations and infrastructure development reveals overall dismal failure,” it stated.
Contrary to the denial by the presidency on Saturday, the CPC still fingered the administration in the split in the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), because of an alleged second term bid of the president in 2015.
“The president’s leadership of his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as a microcosm of his leadership of the nation in the last two years, is worthy of note. The governors, elected on the platform of the PDP, who have shown aversion to his desire for re-election, have been treated with utter ruthlessness.
“A noxious desire to truncate Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s chairmanship of the NGF had seen the birthing of new platforms for PDP governors. The bilious discontent arising from the elections for the new chairman of the NGF bears the imprimatur of the presidency,” the party added.
Reiterating its call on the president to quit , the CPC said it considered unacceptable the steep governance of the nation in the last two years, because, in the opinion of the party, the priorities of President Jonathan “are at variance with the political and economic health of the nation.
Giving a sector by sector analysis, the CPC said the country had never had it so bad in the education sector, as the party alleged that Nigerian students recorded failure in Mathematics and English more than in any other time in the nation’s history.
It noted that in the 2013 federal budget of N4.92 trillion, the allocation of N426.53 billion to education was a mere 8.67 per cent, far below the UNESCO recommendation of 26 percent of the total budget.
The CPC alleged that the president’s brand of politics had brought more negative effect to the political arena, because Jonathan was preoccupied with securing another mandate than in working for the Nigerian electorate.
“Posters of president’s electioneering campaigns for the 2015 election have continued to adorn our cities, with hypocritical denials from government. It did not matter that no arrests have been made of the culprits,” it added.
