Full text of President Goodluck Jonathan's speech at his declaration in Abuja.

Full Text Address by His Excellency,
President
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR On the
Occasion of His Declaration of Intent to Run for
the 2015 Presidential Elections under the
Platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Eagle Square, Abuja
Tuesday 11th November, 2014


Dear Compatriots:

1. Four years ago, precisely September 18,
2010; I stood in this Eagle Square, to offer
myself for election as the President of our
beloved country on the platform of our great
party; the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
2. Seven months after that declaration, you
elected me to lead this country with
overwhelming support from all parts of our
Nation. I remain grateful for the trust you
reposed in me to lead our Nation through
uncommon challenges in our march of progress
as a united and democratic country.
3. Over the years, the Almighty God has made it
possible for me to develop a bond with you and
I am grateful for your support and
understanding in the difficult periods we have
journeyed through.
4. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, our
stewardship has not been without challenges.
We have had to deal with the wave of
insurgency that has swept through some parts
of our dear country. Only yesterday,
Government Science Secondary School in Yobe
State was bombed by insurgents, killing our
promising young children who were seeking
education to build the country and support their
parents. Many Nigerians have lost their lives
and property to these mindless killings. Let me
crave the indulgence of all present here to
stand up to observe a minutes silence in honour
of these young lads who lost their lives. Clearly,
this has cast a dark cloud on our Nation but we
will surely win the war against terror. A number
of young men and women have been kidnapped
by these criminal elements including our
daughters from Chibok. We will free our
daughters and defeat terrorism.
5. We are equipping the armed forces and
deploying special forces to engage the terrorist
and end this senseless war. We must protect
our country. We must save our people. I will do
everything humanly possible to end this criminal
violence in our Nation.
6. To ensure the long term stability and
development of the affected areas, government
has launched three programmes: The
Presidential Initiative for the North East, the
Victim Support Fund and the Safe School
Initiative. The Presidential Initiative for the
Northeast is focused on improving infrastructure
and economic growth in the region. The Safe
School Initiative is centred on creating a safe
environment to encourage our children in the
communities to acquire education. The Victim
Support Fund, a partnership with the Private
Sector, has raised about 60 billion Naira, which
will help to empower and rehabilitate victims of
terror. I promise the victims of these dastardly
acts that we will continue to stand with you.
7. I am grateful to all Nigerians for standing with
me.
8. Let me also thank the leaders and elders of
our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party,
for the opportunity you have given to me to
serve our country, Nigeria.
9. I am overwhelmed by the trust, confidence
and support of the various organs of our party,
the Board of Trustees, the National Caucus, the
National Executive Committee, the National
Working Committee, the PDP Governors Forum,
members of the PDP Caucuses of the National
Assembly, and others.
10. This day affords me the opportunity to
continue the conversation of development we
started together.
11. Infrastructure has been a major focus area
of my administration and so, we pursued the
power sector reform to this point of irreversible
progress. Nigeria has undertaken a most
transparent and corruption free bidding process,
attracting global commendation. The on-going
450MW Azura Power Plant in Edo State is a
testimony to the success of this transformation.
12. We have also resumed development of our
Hydro-Power potential, with the construction of
the 700MW Zungeru Hydro-Power Plant, while
construction work on the 3,050MW Mambilla
Hydro-Power Plant is about to take off.
13. Our power generation and distribution
companies have now been privatized. We are
firmly on the road to guaranteed regular power
supply in the months ahead. This our bold
move, is paying off!
14. We are committed to environmental
protection and conservation and reducing
vulnerability to climate change. In this regard,
we have embarked on a number of projects
across the country. Of particular note is the
African Great Green Wall Programme, where we
have released about 16 billion naira for
implementation. The project will create a green
belt across 11 states from Kebbi to Borno.
15. In the past three and half years, the water
sector has witnessed unprecedented
improvement. Access to potable water is now
67%, up from 58% in 2010, while sanitation
coverage is 41%, from 32% within the same
period.
16. Major developments in water include the
completion of 37 Dams and rehabilitation of 10,
with several others on-going construction. The
flagship Kashimbila Multipurpose Dam which is
being built to contain flood from Lake Nyos, is
now at 90% completion. We have also
completed about 5,000 rural and semi urban
water schemes.
17. We are reforming the National Urban Water
supply programmes in 12 states, with 385
formal and informal irrigation projects, covering
a total land area of 118000 ha, cultivated mostly
by small holder farmers. This has yielded over 3
million metric tons of assorted grains and
vegetables, with a market value of about 45
billion naira.
18. Before the advent of this administration, the
Railway system was practically dead. Today, we
have revived the rail sector. The narrow gauge
line from Lagos to Kano has been rehabilitated
with improved coaches providing regular
services. The rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt-
Maiduguri rail line is progressing with the Port
Harcourt-Gombe segment as well as the branch
line from Kafanchan to Kaduna expected to be
completed and fully operational by December
2014.
19. Already, work on the Abuja-Kaduna
standard gauge rail line, is progressing. The
tracks of the rail line will be completed by
December this year 2014. Upon completion of
the project in the first quarter of 2015, it will be
possible for Nigerians to live in Kaduna and
work in Abuja. The Itape-Ajaokuta-Wari
standard gauge line has attained an advanced
stage, with the track completely laid. We hope
to commence full operation before the end of
2015.
20. Other segments of the new standard gauge
speed train network are planned with contract
already awarded for the Lagos –Ibadan
Segment. There will be more of such modern
and faster rail connections in the coming years.
Already, discussions are now at advanced
stage, for the Coastal rail line that will traverse
through 10 states, from Lagos through the
South-South and South-East, all the way to
Calabar.
21. My administration has successfully
completed the dredging of the lower River Niger
from Baro in Niger State to Warri in in Delta
State. The cheering news is that over 6.7 million
passengers and over 1.6 million tonnes of cargo
have been moved through this channel in less
than three years.
22. I am happy to also report that our ports
now operate 24 hour service, which has led to
the reduction of clearing time and improved
efficiency.
23. When I assumed office in 2010, out of the
35,000km of federal roads nationwide, only
about 5,000km were motorable. Today, that
number has increased to about 25,000km. We
expect to complete the remaining 10,000km in
three years while initiating new ones.
24. I made a commitment to build two new
major bridges across the River Niger and River
Benue. Today, the new bridge over the River
Benue, connecting Loko in Nassarawa State to
Oweto in Benue State has reached an advance
stage of completion, while work has
commenced on the Second Niger Bridge.
25. Beyond these, my administration has
concluded plans to re-commence the
construction of Bodo-Bonny Road with three
major bridges on the alignment that will link the
Island of Bonny with Rivers mainland.
26. Preliminary works have started on my
administration’s planned re-construction and
expansion of the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport Road in Lagos to a world
class entry point into our country. Only a few
months ago, work started on the dualization of
Kano-Katsina Road. While many Nigerians are
celebrating the marked improvements on our
roads, I want to assure that it will get even
better as we move forward.
27. In the pursuit of an integrated transportation
system, we embarked on the construction of
five new Airport Terminal Buildings and Air-field
facilities. We are also re-constructing existing
ones. The re-construction upon completion, will
lead to improved passenger processing,
increased cargo handling capacity and
enhanced Air-field facilities that meet
international standard and improves safety.
These efforts have been met with global
acknowledgement including the attainment and
retention of the FAA Category One status.
28. In housing, we signed the National Housing
Policy to kick-start the framework for providing
more affordable homes for our people. We have
also expanded the National Housing Fund to
accommodate more Nigerians. We have started
a revolution in the housing sector with the start
of the Nigerian Mortgage and Refinanced
Company (NMRC) a new initiative of my
administration, that will enable more citizens in
the lower income bracket to become first time
home owners.
29. Our partners such as the World Bank group
are supporting this with US300million dollars
interest free credit, while my administration will
back it with over 100billion naira in bonds. We
are already processing 66,000 mortgage
applications for our young people. We have
amended the PENCOM Act to enable the
pension funds invest in housing sector bonds.
This will create a boom in the housing sector.
30. In the Federal Capital Territory, we are
rapidly building a befitting National Capital by
expanding and providing new infrastructure,
developing ten new districts and Satellite Towns
to cater for the ever increasing population. In no
distant future, you will be able to arrive at the
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and
proceed to the city using the Abuja Light Rail. In
addition to providing durable health, educational
and transportation services, we are also
collaborating with Organized Labour to build
functional, affordable and social housing in
Abuja.
31. Other critical capital developments that are
being packaged by this Administration include
the development of the Ultra-Modern World
Trade Centre, the Abuja Town Centre, the Jabi
Lake Comprehensive Centre, the Centenary City
and the Land Swap Districts. This private sector
driven infrastructural development will positively
change the skyline of the city and provide the
required office and residential accommodation,
shopping and recreation as well as tourism and
entertainment facilities of the FCT.
32. In our determination to encourage much
greater participation of Nigerians in the oil and
gas industry, one of the first actions I took, was
the enactment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas
Industry Content Development Act. As a result
of this law, indigenous Nigerian participation
levels, in upstream and downstream activities of
the oil and gas industry have increased by over
45%, thereby increasing employment
opportunities for our youth.
33. We have also succeeded in eliminating the
long queues that previously characterised our
filling stations, through regular and sustained
product supply.
34. Gas infrastructure to ensure adequate Gas
to Power and Gas to Industry, is being
aggressively put in place. Over 450km of gas
pipelines have been installed over the last
3years. Another 2,000km is planned over the
next 4years. Critical petrochemical and fertilizer
facilities have commenced including the gas
industrial park in Delta State, for which I am
scheduled to perform the ground-breaking this
Friday. This will create millions of jobs and make
Nigeria a regional hub.
35. In addition, as a result of government
favourable policies the private sector is investing
over 12 billion dollars in the petrochemical
sector, over the next 4years. This will surely
create millions of jobs for our people.
36. In terms of gas supply, we have grown from
less than 500 million cubic feet per day, 4years
ago, to about 1.5 billion cubic feet per day
currently. Our goal is to attain 4 billion cubic
feet per day, over the next 4years.
37. We have changed the face of agriculture.
We moved agriculture away from a development
Programme to agriculture as a business. My
vision is to create wealth for our people through
agriculture.
38. We have focused on encouraging the
private sector to boost investments in the
agricultural sector. As a result, the number of
seed companies rose from five to eighty in the
past three years. Private sector investment in
the agricultural sector expanded by $ US 5.6
billion across the Agricultural value chain.
39. We ended decades of corruption in the
fertilizer and seed sectors. We developed a
transparent and efficient system of reaching
farmers directly with subsidized farm inputs.
Before our reforms, fertilizer procurement and
distribution took from the needy and gave to the
greedy. We restored dignity back to farmers.
Today, 14 million farmers, of which 2 million are
women, access fertilizers with their mobile
phones, through an e-wallet system. Nigeria is
the first country in the world to develop an e-
wallet system to reach farmers with subsidized
farm inputs on their mobile phones. Several
African countries are now borrowing this
transparent and efficient e-wallet system for
their own countries.
40. Our national food production expanded by
an additional 21 million metric tons between
2011 and 2014, a record, exceeding our set
target of 20 million metric tons set for 2015.
The Dangote Group, has committed to invest
$US 1 billion in commercial rice production and
processing. With all these developments, we are
expected to be an exporter of rice in the next
five years. This will be a new dawn!
41. The benefits are showing on our food
imports. Our food import bill has declined from
1.1 trillion Naira in 2009 to 684 billion Naira by
December 2013, even with our increasing
population, a reduction of 40%.
42. Nigeria met its Millennium Development
Goal One on reducing hunger and extreme
poverty, two years ahead of 2015 target set by
the United Nations, and was given an award by
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations.
43. To sustain this trend, we are encouraging
young graduates through the Nagropreneurs
Programme to go into commercial Agriculture.
We are also encouraging our students in Post
Primary Schools to embrace commercial
Agriculture through the National School
Agriculture Programme.
44. My dear people, corruption remains a big
challenge in our national life. It corrodes our
efforts at development and at motivating
competence in critical sectors of our national
growth. We have eradicated it in the agricultural
sector and we will surely eradicate it in other
sectors of our economy.
45. Going forward, my focus is to continue to
reinforce institutions, systems, and processes to
tackle corruption, and also to bring to justice
those that perpetrate corruption. Through the
Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information
System (IPPIS), we have weeded out 56,000
ghost workers from the Federal Civil Service,
saving 162 billion naira.
46. I have directed ICPC to bring the
perpetrators of this criminal act to book. Let this
be very clear, public officers must live by
example, fully accounting for the national trust
and resources in their care.
47. In our journey to progress, knowledge is
indispensable. Knowledge is power! This is why
my administration established 14 new
Universities out of which 12 are conventional
and two are specialized Police and Maritime
Universities. Under my watch, every state in
Nigeria, now has a Federal University.
48. In addition, over 500billion naira have been
spent, through the Tertiary Education Trust
Fund (TETFund) and the special NEEDS
assessment fund on various projects to increase
access and improve the quality of infrastructure
at the tertiary level of our education system.
49. To provide equal access and opportunities
in education and ensure that no Nigerian child
is left behind, we have established and
equipped 150 Almajiri Schools across the
Northern states and the Out-of-School-Children
Programme including Specialized Boys and Girls
Schools across the country.
50. Fellow Nigerians, our country was faced
with a major National security, humanitarian,
and economic threat in the form of the Ebola
Virus Disease, which arrived in the country on
July 20, 2014, by way of a foreign national, Mr
Patrick Sawyer.
51. Realizing the imminent threat, I declared a
national emergency, pulling states, local and
federal government into action as well as
individual Nigerians to combat this disease.
Without the quick action of patriotic Nigerians in
the First Consultant Hospital, as well as the co-
operation of Lagos and Rivers State, where the
disease occurred, working with the Federal
Ministry of Health and the co-operation of all
Nigerians we could not have succeeded in
overcoming this deadly disease. Fellow
Nigerians we stopped Ebola together.
52. Just as we stopped Ebola, we are on our
way to eradicating the Polio Virus in our
country. We have reduced the incident of new
Polio Virus from 300 in 2010, to 6 today.
53. My brothers and sisters, to encourage
entrepreneurship and self-reliance among our
teeming graduates, we have developed creative
opportunities for enterprise for our young
people.
54. Programmes such as YouWIN, the
Graduate Internship Scheme, the Nagropreneurs
Initiative, the 220 Billion Naira Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises Development Fund and the
3 Billion Naira Grant to Nollywood are
empowering our graduates, the creative industry
and other young people to start up their own
businesses and employ others.
55. We have supported the growth of industry
through policy and action. We launched The
National industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP), and
the National Enterprise Development
Programme as key drivers to bring about our
desires in the industrial sectors and to diversify
our economy. Our new National Automobile
Policy is transforming Nigeria into a vibrant hub
for the automobile industry. Our own Innoson
Motors is producing world standard vehicles,
and Nissan, Hyundai, and Kia, have set up
factories in Nigeria and are employing thousands
of our people.
56. Our support for cement production is
unprecedented. We have increased our installed
capacity from 16.5 million metric tons per
annum in 2011 to 39.5 million metric tons per
annum in 2014. Nigeria is now exporting
cement. We are moving forward! We must
produce what we consume and consume what
we produce.
57. Our efforts to create an enabling
environment for job creation in different sectors
of the economy including the MSME sector,
agriculture, housing and manufacturing have
yielded results. Between the third quarter of
2012, when we started tracking jobs created
and the end of 2013, 1.9 million jobs were
created. To deepen our success in this area, I
have created a Presidential Jobs Creation Board
headed by the Vice President with the mandate
to create at least two million jobs a year.
58. My brothers and sisters, our economy is
heading in the right direction and our efforts are
yielding positive results. Our economy continues
to grow at the rate of 6 to 7 percent annually,
one of the highest in the world. Our country is
now the top investment destination and the
largest economy in Africa, with a GDP of
80trillion naira (510billion dollars) as well as the
26th largest economy in the world.
59. As part of its efforts to support inclusive
growth and economic development in Nigeria
through the CBN, my administration has
created and disbursed the sum of 200billion
naira via the Commercial Agric and Credit
scheme, 300billion naira Power and Aviation
fund, 220billion naira Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprise Fund, as well as 300 billion naira rail
sector refinancing facilities at single digit interest
rate. We will continue to deepen the reforms in
the financial sector, in order to sustain the
growth of our economy and uplift our people
from poverty to prosperity.
60. Dear Compatriots, I promised as President,
that we would sanitize and restore integrity in
our electoral process, by ensuring that our votes
are not only counted, but truly count. We have
gone to great length to ensure transparent, free,
fair, and credible elections. Elections have been
conducted across the country with local and
international election observers testifying to their
transparency.
61. On the international scene, we have
advanced our regional, continental and global
objectives. We have strengthened our
relationships with our neighbours and in many
instances supported them to protect their
democracy, security and stability. We are
serving for a second time within a period of 4
years at the United Nations Security Council.
This is unprecedented in our Nation’s history.
My brothers and sister, this is a growing
attestation of our country’s growing influence.
62. In the first quarter of this year, our country
celebrated its centenary. To prepare the nation
for the challenges of the next one hundred
years, I convened a National Conference where
recommendations and resolutions were reached
towards a more perfect union. We shall
implement the report.
63. Four years ago, I made a commitment to
advance the rise and rise of womanhood.
Today, I am glad that we have made remarkable
progress in this regard, trusting in the potential
of our women and reaping from their dedication
and ingenuity. I believe that any nation that
ignores womanhood cannot achieve its full
potential. It is in this regard that I ensured that
women were given more opportunities in
government, and I have not been disappointed.
64. Specifically, I doubled the percentage of
women in the cabinet and gave them more
challenging assignments.
65. The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), is
now admitting female cadets as regular
combatants and it is now possible for a woman
to rise through the ranks to the peak in military
service, and become a full general.
66. We must continue to sustain the banner of
freedom and justice that we have held high in
our country. I am proud to say that there are no
political prisoners in Nigeria today. No Nigerian
has been driven to exile and no one will be,
under my watch.
67. It is in furtherance of a peaceful,
participatory and inclusive democracy that I
signed the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill into
law, to expand the frontiers of our fundamental
freedom.
68. Let me re-affirm that under a Jonathan
Presidency, your views, no matter how freely
expressed, will not send you to prison or into
exile.
69. I am convinced that I have kept my pact
with Nigerians, and it is now time to look to the
future. With your tremendous support, we have
collectively done so much in the last three and
half years, but to take our country to the next
level, there is still more to be done.
70. History has shown that the path of honour
for any true leader is not to walk away from his
people in moments of challenges. We must
stand together in adversity and overcome all
threats to our development. We must defend
our future, for the sake of our children.
71. So many things have inspired me in the
journey to this moment. I want to appreciate
ordinary Nigerians, especially young people, for
the solidarity shown to me by contributing their
meagre resources to enable me arrive at this
point.
72. I appreciate the kind gesture of the Cattle
Breeders Union, Miyetti Allah, and the Market
Women Association, who encouraged me by
coming together to contribute to the purchase
of my Nomination form.
73. In the same vein, I am touched by the
National Association of Widows who also
encouraged me with their widow’s mite.
74. This labour of love, from ordinary Nigerians,
has increased my appreciation of your
solidarity, my trust in our joint destiny, and all
we have achieved together these past three and
half years.
75. Therefore, after seeking the face of God, in
quiet reflection with my family and having
listened to the call of our people nationwide to
run, I, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, have
accepted to re-present myself, on the platform
of The Peoples’ Democratic Party, for re-
election as the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, in the 2015 general
elections.
76. Democracy is a collective action, energized
by individual responsibility. Your mandate at this
time will inspire in me the strength to complete
the good work we have started together.
77. My dear people of Nigeria, we must
complete the task of ensuring that we lift the
poor out of the depth of want, and place their
feet firmly on the ladder of prosperity.
78. In this election season, I appeal to all of
you, not to harm, maim or kill; and not to incite
violence of any kind. We must never forget our
common bond, one people from the womb of
one Nigeria. Again I say: My ambition to serve
you is not worth the blood of any Nigerian. I
remain committed to this principle of non-
violence.
79. If you believe that we must build a country
that works for all, where the strong lift up the
weak, and not trample upon them, where the
vote of every citizen determines who governs or
represents you, where the democratic space is
open to all citizens to fulfil their aspirations,
irrespective of the circumstance of birth, your
brother, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan
stands ready to continue in service to you.
80. My brothers and sisters, we cannot go back
to the old ways! Our railways were allowed to
rot in neglect, we have revived and are
modernising them.
81. We cannot go back to the old ways! Our
road infrastructure collapsed. We are
reconstructing, and expanding federal roads
across the country.
82. We cannot go back to the old ways! Our
airport terminal buildings were dilapidated and
our airspace unsafe. We are fixing this.
83. We cannot go back to the old ways! Our
agricultural practices did not benefit our farmers
and our people. Fertilizer distribution was a
major source of fraud and we were importing
food more than our budget can carry. Now we
are on our way to self-sufficiency in food
production.
84. Do you want to go back to the old ways?
85. We cannot go back to the old ways, where
there were long queues at our filling stations
due to irregular supply of products and our
people were exploited.
86. We cannot go back to the old ways, when
women and youths were denied opportunities in
government and in responsible positions.
87. Do you want to go back to the old ways?
88. We cannot go back to the old ways! We
had skewed distribution of tertiary institutions.
Whereas some states had more than one
degree awarding institution, some had none.
We have now made sure all states have at least
one Federal University.
89. We cannot go back to the old ways! Our
economy is now the largest in Africa. Once, we
were virtually importing everything, now we are
exporting several products, including cement.
90. We cannot go back to the old ways! In
2009, average life expectancy was 47 years, by
the end of 2013, it was 52 years. Some of our
hospitals now perform open heart surgeries,
kidney transplants and other challenging
operations as we reposition our health service
to end decades of medical tourism that drains
our scarce resources.
91. We cannot go back to the old ways!
Together, in unity, we overcame Ebola, and in
the process demonstrated the strength of the
Nigerian spirit. And together, united, we must
maintain our vigilance.
92. Do you want to go back to the old ways?
93. We cannot go back to the old ways where
individual freedoms were trampled upon and
citizens were locked up for expressing their
views or criticising government.
94. Do you want to go back to the old ways?
95. We cannot go back to the old ways! We
must continue to have free and fair elections.
We cannot go back to the era where ballot box
snatching and stuffing became the norm. Where
your votes never counted.
96. Certainly, we cannot!
97. We have to move forward! Only forward!!,
my dear people, Forward!!!
98. In moving forward, I see a Nigeria that
thirsts for progress with children across the
nation, eager for knowledge and safely in
schools!
99. I see a Nigeria where all who have taken up
arms, would again embrace peace!
100. I see a Nigeria where our women can
aspire to any heights, without hindrance!
101. I see a Nigeria where the flames in the
Eagles will rekindle, and the Falcons soaring
higher in victory!
102. I see a Nigeria where the children of
Mustapha, and Christopher, Ade and Ada, Timi
and Bunmi, Nnamdi and Namadi, do not go
hungry!
103. I see a Nigeria where all, no matter their
beliefs, live in peace and harmony!
104. I see a Nigeria where the green passport is
accorded a royal reception the world over!
105. I see a Nigeria where one day the next
generation will take us to outer space.
106. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen,
leadership is about staying focused to achieve
goals despite challenges. I have been faced
with many challenges since coming to office as
President. With your support and
encouragement, we have stayed the course.
107. We are succeeding, against all odds. For
the young Nigerian child, who grew up in the
rural area, just like me, we are expanding
opportunities and giving them hope. For the
market woman, we are expanding opportunities.
For our young entrepreneurs, we are expanding
opportunities. For the right of our people to vote
and for their voices to be heard, we are
expanding opportunities. For Nigerians to have
the right to free speech, we are expanding
opportunities. For the job seekers, against all
odds, we are expanding opportunities.
108. While serving our people, I will always
ensure the rule of law. I do not intimidate, I
expand the democratic space. I give voice to
the voiceless and uphold the weak, for the
nation belongs to us all. Fellow Nigerians, as
we build our democracy, leaders must show
temperance at all times. That is a virtue, one
which I treasure, and will always uphold.
109. My people, Nigeria is destined for
greatness. Today, here at Eagle Square, I say
to Nigeria, that working together in love, in
strength and in faith, we will build a nation of
one people, united in purpose and in action.
110. Fellow Nigerians, it is forward ever! We
must put our hopes to work! Together, we will
realize our collective destiny.
111. Thank you!!
112. God bless Nigeria!!