Monday, December 22, 2014

"TWO DIFFERENT VISIONS FOR NIGERIA IN 2015"

The ways that the two candidates in the Nigeria's presidential election of 2015 are raising their campaign money shows clearly that they have different visions for Nigeria and they will be representing two groups of Nigerians in their governments if they are elected next year. President Jonathan Goodluck has demonstrated to Nigerians that the tens of millions of ordinary Nigerians are not important to him, his reelection and his future administration or government. The estimate N21.27 billion or $117 million for this President reelection funds came mainly from the corporate Nigeria, state owned corporations, PDP state governors, the richest Nigerians and multinational corporations who are the main beneficiaries from the economic policies of this President for the last six years and through the dirty oil subsidy deal, oil bloc allocation, privatization of the oil and power sectors, oil theft or bunkering, import duty waiver, over-invoicing of imports, tax evasion, money laundering, official corruption and the monopoly of the telecommunication sector.
In the case of General Muhammadu Buhari, his campaign will be financed by the tens of millions of ordinary Nigerians through their meagre donations as low as N100 or $5.5 per person. The way and the manner that this General Muhammadu Buhari is generating his campaign funds show that his proposed government or administration if elected next year with have economic policies in place that will redistribute the Nigeria's wealth, close the income inequality, reduce the national poverty rate and open the economic opportunities to the ordinary Nigerians. The Nigerian voters are now presented by two distinct, different and competing visions for their one country. I hope that every eligible Nigerian voter will make a well informed decision on February 14, 2015 at the polls and will also vote for his or her own self interest and future in Nigeria. I am also hoping that this government of President Jonathan Goodluck, the INEC and the Nigerian security forces and her state agencies that are in charge of this election will allow every registered Nigerian voter to vote freely in an election that should be of international standard, credible, fair, transparent, free and all-inclusive" #‎TwoDifferentVisionsForNigeriaIn2015‬ 

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