Jonathan asserted this in his address at the party’s a
special national convention. He said that the party’s achievements while in
power would rekindle the confidence of the electorate to vote it back in power
in the 2019 general elections.
"The party is indeed back to reclaim its prime position
as the party to lead Nigeria to greatness. "As a human institution, we
cannot claim to be perfect and as a political party, our accomplishments up to
2015 are clear for every Nigerian to see,’’ he said.
According to Jonathan, the achievements of the party while
in power are ample evidence to demonstrate that PDP is a party of vision and
accomplishments.
Highlighting achievements of the party, he said that
elections conducted from 2011 by the government controlled by PDP met
globally-accepted standard. "We succeeded in doing that because of the
leverage and the autonomy we gave to the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC).
"PDP is a party that wants to place Nigeria in a
position to compete favourably with other countries,’’he said.
On the economy, the former president said that PDP provided
focused leadership through institutional and sectoral reforms which impacted
positively on the country, especially in the last four years of our tenure.
"We tamed inflation at a single digit, maintained price
stability, and drove the economy to become thelargest in Africa.
“We also made Nigeria to be the number one foreign direct
investment destination in the continent,’’ he said.
According to him, in 2012, PDP ensured that prices of food
remained stable in spite of flood which affected 50 per cent of farmlands along
the flood plains of river Niger and Benue.
Jonathan said that the country was able to regain its
goodwill internationally because the PDP pursued programmes and policies that
were not only rewarding but were copied by other countries across the globe.
"We can recall that our agricultural transformation
agenda transformed key agricultural value chains, boosted local production and
created a new generation of young commercial farmers.
"The introduction of electronic wallet checked corrupt
practices in the distribution of fertilizer andenabled farmers to get
fertilizer like all other agro inputs.
“In the same vein, the YouWin programme empowered a crop of
young Nigerians to go into entrepreneurship and in turn employed others,’’ he
said.
Jonathan said that though his administration did not block
all the loopholes, it came up with strong innovations to fight corruption. According
to him, we introduced the Bank Verification Number (BVN) and the Treasury
Single Account (TSA) which has helped to reduce corruption.
“Government is run by policies, the creative thinking,
brains in the executive council and in the civil servants were harnessed to get
to where we are. “If elected in 2019, PDP will fight poverty and ensure that
food prices are reduced,’’ he added, andurged Nigerians to partner the party to
restore good life in the country.
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