By Umar Muhammad Puma
Senior Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on political matters, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali has described the Jonathan presidency in 2015 to 2019 as a Nigerian project that excites a lot of Nigerians thereby making the project a national project driven by the people of the country.
Alkali said this yesterday when executive members of the South-south Media Professional Forum paid him a courtesy call in his office in Abuja.
He noted that in 2011, the South-south could lay claim to Jonathan as theirs being the first time they were presenting him to the country to steer the affairs of state, the other parts as it is usual may have doubted his capacity until now that he has proved them wrong with the records of transformation that is touching every aspects of our lives.
Alkali said that those who see the Jonathan presidency for the next tenure as a project of the South-south should perish that thought as the President is a Nigerian charting the affairs of the country in a manner that every section and region of the country is proud of thereby endearing him to the whole country.
According to Alkali “Today is not 2011 when you were saying that he is our own in the perspective of the region, now he is ‘our own’ as a Nigerian own that should be the spirit because he has ascended to a national light and proved to be a leader of focus and vision for the country.”
“This Jonathan Project is not a South-south project, it is not a North-east project, it is not a South-west project it is not a North-west project it is a Nigerian project” where all region of the country are active participant in having the president return to his job in Aso rock. Alkali stated.
He pointed out that all the people need to do further to make the sail less cumbersome for the support of the Goodluck Presidency in 2015 is to continue to espouse his activities and development strides that has earned the country good image outside of Nigeria and building local capacities to meet our various national challenges.
He noted that the president deserved another tenure that would be granted him by the Nigerian people who are excited with the way he is running the affairs of state.
“It is important that you go about and continue to win support for the President by building goodwill for the president if you open your heart and talk to people who are resistant to Jonathan for whatever reason would see your points and turn in for him and make more friends for Mr. President” he stated.
