{"id":13959,"date":"2017-04-07T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13959"},"modified":"2017-04-07T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:34:57","slug":"2015-pdp-didt-fail-nigerians-want-to-experience-another-leadership-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13959","title":{"rendered":"2015: PDP DID&#8217;T FAIL. NIGERIANS WANT TO EXPERIENCE ANOTHER LEADERSHIP &#8211; JONATHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erstwhile President, Goodluck Jonathan has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost the 2015 Presidential election because Nigerians decided to vote the party out and not due to failure as widely claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday in Abuja, the former President noted that all over the world political parties lost elections not because they failed but that the electorate chose to experience another leadership.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan also dismissed claims by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, that his party left the country in ruins after 16 years at the helm of affairs.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Insisting that his party achieved a lot while in power, Jonathan said it was not strange for the party to be experiencing difficulties because \u201cevery election cycle is a challenge to any political party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Jonathan, \u201cWe are proud to state that PDP had creditably managed the affairs of this country for 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that our party has in the last two years gone through some difficulties. However, in a democracy this is not strange in the life of a political party, especially after losing power to the opposition, like we did.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12816&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAt different times, I have also been making efforts to reunite, reconcile and re-energise to become stronger, before the next election. I will like to point out that every election cycle throws up a challenge as well as opportunities for a political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA test to re-evaluate its performance, and an opportunity to reform its processes and programmes, towards rediscovering itself to become even more appealing to the electorate, in its next outing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis obviously is the area where we have excelled. The fact that we allowed this process to take place peacefully, and freely handed over.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll over the world, political parties lose elections, not because they have entirely failed, but because, in most cases, the people who gave them power in the first place, have decided to hand it over to another party, in order to experience a different kind of leadership.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a forum for chest-thumping but it is important we highlight some relevant initiatives of past PDP administrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ideological commitment towards a private sector-led and people-oriented economy manifested in the great achievements we recorded in various sectors including communications, agriculture, public financial management and financial reforms, the financial services rail and roads infrastructure, as well as in the social services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11375\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation-75x75.jpg 75w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/jonathan-foundation.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn agriculture, we revolutionized the sector by introducing programmes that encouraged more people, including the youths to embrace farming as a thriving business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also boosted local capacity for food production, thereby drastically reducing the prize of food stuff and food import bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the PDP Government improved communication in Nigeria through the introduction of Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) and the expansion of the nation\u2019s information and communication technology architecture needs no gainsay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erstwhile President, Goodluck Jonathan has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost the 2015 Presidential election because Nigerians decided to vote the party out and not due to failure as widely claimed. 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