President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday declared
that no individual, group or persons or terrorist
organisation could hold the nation to ransom.
Jonathan spoke at the first Sunday service in 2014
which he attended at the Church of Christ in Nations
(COCIN), Garki, Abuja.
He vowed to end insecurity and spate of killings in
some parts of the North being perpetrated by the
Boko Haram sect.
The president, who described the terrorist’s
onslaught as ephemeral, assured that the country
would soon be liberated from it.
Jonathan reiterated his administration’s
commitment to working harder to ensure that
“nobody or group of persons will be able to hold
Nigeria to ransom’’.
The president said his administration was working
hard to build a country that the future generation
would be proud of.
“Boko Haram is temporary, Boko Haram will surely
go. We will do all our best to end it.
“A number of countries have faced similar
challenges and they have been able to overcome
them. We will surely overcome Boko Haram.
“Life in the North must change, development must
go to all parts of this country and nobody or group of
people can hold this country to ransom.
“We will collectively
liberate this country from
the hands of any evil
person that is trying to
set us backward.
“We will do our best and
build a country that our
children and our
grandchildren will be
proud of,’’ he said.
Jonathan said his
administration would
work hard to improve the
standard of living of
Nigerians.
The president, who
likened nation building to
the planting of crops or
the process of building a
house, said that such
development would not
come overnight but
through a process.
“Let me reassure you
that we will continue to
work harder and harder
to improve the quality of
lives of Nigerians.
“You cannot achieve this
overnight. I always say
that and sometimes I am always misquoted when I
say we cannot achieve this overnight.
“Even if you go and plant a crop, it takes a period
before you start seeing the fruits.
“I always tell people that if you have all the money
in this world today to build a house and you want to
build a simple two-storey building, it must still take
some time to build,” he said.
The president noted that the heated political
environment being experienced in the country in
recent times was neither unusual not peculiar to
Nigeria.
He said the USA, which is generally regarded as a
great country, had same experience recently to a
point of near shutting down.
Jonathan assured Nigerians that the perceived
confusion notwithstanding, only the will of God will
be done in the country. (NAN)
that no individual, group or persons or terrorist
organisation could hold the nation to ransom.
Jonathan spoke at the first Sunday service in 2014
which he attended at the Church of Christ in Nations
(COCIN), Garki, Abuja.
He vowed to end insecurity and spate of killings in
some parts of the North being perpetrated by the
Boko Haram sect.
The president, who described the terrorist’s
onslaught as ephemeral, assured that the country
would soon be liberated from it.
Jonathan reiterated his administration’s
commitment to working harder to ensure that
“nobody or group of persons will be able to hold
Nigeria to ransom’’.
The president said his administration was working
hard to build a country that the future generation
would be proud of.
“Boko Haram is temporary, Boko Haram will surely
go. We will do all our best to end it.
“A number of countries have faced similar
challenges and they have been able to overcome
them. We will surely overcome Boko Haram.
“Life in the North must change, development must
go to all parts of this country and nobody or group of
people can hold this country to ransom.
“We will collectively
liberate this country from
the hands of any evil
person that is trying to
set us backward.
“We will do our best and
build a country that our
children and our
grandchildren will be
proud of,’’ he said.
Jonathan said his
administration would
work hard to improve the
standard of living of
Nigerians.
The president, who
likened nation building to
the planting of crops or
the process of building a
house, said that such
development would not
come overnight but
through a process.
“Let me reassure you
that we will continue to
work harder and harder
to improve the quality of
lives of Nigerians.
“You cannot achieve this
overnight. I always say
that and sometimes I am always misquoted when I
say we cannot achieve this overnight.
“Even if you go and plant a crop, it takes a period
before you start seeing the fruits.
“I always tell people that if you have all the money
in this world today to build a house and you want to
build a simple two-storey building, it must still take
some time to build,” he said.
The president noted that the heated political
environment being experienced in the country in
recent times was neither unusual not peculiar to
Nigeria.
He said the USA, which is generally regarded as a
great country, had same experience recently to a
point of near shutting down.
Jonathan assured Nigerians that the perceived
confusion notwithstanding, only the will of God will
be done in the country. (NAN)
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