“Allow Jonathan to Complete His 8 Years, Over 178,000 Jobs Have Been Created This Year” – Labaran Maku

Information Minister Mr. Labaran Maku says the Goodluck Jonathan administration is implementing deliberate policies aimed at expanding the economy to create employment for the teeming youth of this country.  He made the remark in Abuja when the PDP Youth Vanguard presented a letter of appointment to the Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro as the Patron of the organisation in the North-Central Zone.
Mr. Maku said the sustenance of the ongoing reforms in key sectors of the economy would open up opportunities for youth empowerment and job creation.
“PDP in the last 14 years in Nigeria has done so much to transform Nigeria particularly under the leadership of Mr. President, Goodluck Jonathan.  We are beginning to see a country that is growing once again; we are beginning to see economy that is growing faster than any other economy in Africa, even faster than India and Brazil.  We are growing at 6.7%, which is above average in emerging economies, which are about 5%.
“We are beginning to see jobs for the youths.  178,000 jobs going this year under the SURE-P alone and the target in 370, 000 annually”,  he said.

The Minister charged the PDP youth group to be the vanguard for justice and equality in the nation’s polity by insisting that every part of Nigeria is given the opportunity to lead the country with the support and active participation of other constituent units in the federation.
Mr. Maku said President Jonathan deserved the support of the youth to consolidate on the progress recorded under the Transformation Agenda in order to expand the frontiers of development and wealth generation in the country.
“We believe also in justice that every part of this country will have the opportunity to rule Nigeria, and the people of the South-South are just there now for one term and you know in this country, once power moves, it is expected that they will have full measure of their own opportunity and the South South being the part of the country that is producing almost 70% of our national income, needs the support of the rest of the country to complete their natural term of 8 years so that when it moves to another part of the country, definitely, they will also have the opportunity to do same. It went to the South West, they spent their 8 years, it is now in the South South”, he explained.
He said the North Central Geo-political Zone has stood resolutely by the PDP since 1999 and that come rain or sunshine, the zone would always go with the PDP.

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