Pro-Jonathan, Agbaje Rally  Grounds Lagos

Lagos came to a halt today as National Chairman of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) led party members and a coalition of ethnic nationality groups in a long march in support of the candidacy of President Goodluck Jonathan and Mr. Jimi Agbaje, Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The organiser of the mega rally, Dr. Frederick Fasehun extolled the virtues of Jonathan and accused his rival in the presidential polls, General Muhammadu Buhari, of “surrounding himself with politicians of doubtful character, who have plundered their states and appear committed to graduating their evil tendencies to the national level.”

Stretching for about two kilometres long parade of people and vehicles, the march took off at the Lagos Toll-Gate end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and terminated at the Tafawa Balewa Square on the Island.

Forming the bulk of the thousands of people in the long march were various ethnic stocks including: Ijaw, Edo, Igbo and Yoruba, with the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), of which Fasehun is Founder and President, featuring prominently.

In a short speech at the TBS terminal point of the event, Fasehun extolled the virtues of Jonathan and Agbaje, saying, they were the best of the contestants parading for their respective offices.

In the address, titled: Why Nigerians Want Jonathan Back On March 28, 2015, And Should Vote Jimi Agbaje Of PDP In Lagos On April 11, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, told the Mega Rally that “Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is the best man for the job because as President he has recorded unassailable achievements in the area of education, infrastructure, agriculture, etc.”

Urging Nigerians to vote wisely by voting Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as President on March 28, the UPN Chairman and OPC Founder said, the South-South, from which Jonathan hailed deserved a second term.

The full text of his speech reads as follows:

1. Of all those contesting the Presidency today, Dr. Jonathan remains the best fit for the job
2. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has shown himself a lamb of peace, committed to the peaceful existence of a strong, formidable and united Nigeria
3. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan convened the long-awaited and critical National Conference
4. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan recognises the National Conference as a roadmap to the Nigeria of the future and is committed to its implementation (in contrast, the opposition leaders have positioned themselves in hostility to the agreements reached at the Confab and are sworn to jettisoning its far-reaching and epochal agreements and resolutions)
5. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is the best man for the job because as President he has recorded unassailable achievements in the area of education, infrastructure, agriculture, etc.
6. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is systematically curbing corruption and blocking drainpipes, as epitomised in his reforms in fertiliser distribution, pensions and in the independence of the EFCC and the Judiciary
7. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has raised Nigeria’s profile on the corruption chart, as acknowledged by international agencies like Transparency International
8. General Muhammadu Buhari is not Nigeria’s Messiah
9. General Muhammadu Buhari has shown himself an ethno-religious bigot,  a do-or-die politician insensitive to the unity and continued existence of Nigeria
10. Based on his past records, General Muhammadu Buhari cannot be a custodian or beneficiary of the democracy he truncated
11. General Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure as PTF Chairman clearly demonstrates that he will be loft-sided in distribution of infrastructural development in favour of his section of the country
12. General Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure as Military Head of State and his appointment of a fellow Northerner and Moslem as his deputy shows a potential for marginalisation of other sections of the country in favour of his own section
13. General Muhammadu Buhari swore to make Nigeria ungovernable should GEJ win the 2011 elections, jonathan won, and Nigeria a section of Nigeria has become ungovernable since then –true to the words of GMB.
14. Instead of standing elections, General Muhammadu Buhari should be standing trial for levying war against the country and for the over 50,000 lives lost to insurgency in the North
15. General Muhammadu Buhari has lost touch with reality of running a modern State-Nation
16. General Muhammadu Buhari is a serial political loser, who, apart from his hollow political career, cannot lay claim to any entrepreneurial achievements since he was overthrown in 1985
17. The evil group Boko Haram has consistently fingered Buhari as its Brand Ambassador and prime mover
18. General Muhammadu Buhari has chosen to surround himself with politicians of doubtful character, who have plundered their states and appear committed to graduating their evil tendencies to the national level
19. The South-South deserves a second term
20. The most significant Nigerian dignitaries have endorsed the candidacy of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
21. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has proved a humble, humane, honest, committed, creative and patriotic President, who is divinely and academically equipped to lead Nigeria to greater heights in the comity of nations
22. Jimi Agbaje is the best of those available for the job of Governor of Lagos State
23. Agbaje comes with a sound pedigree, with ideals and programmes rooted in the Awoist and Afenifere stock
24. He will break the cycle of corruption and self-serving system entrenched in Lagos today.