Jonathan promises to ensure Nigerians abroad vote in 2015 elections

Paris – President Goodluck Jonathan, has said he would work with INEC, to ensure that Nigerians living abroad voted in the 2015 elections.

Jonathan said this in Paris on Friday, while fielding questions on voting, security and other issues from the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Europe (NIDOe), French Chapter.
The president said:“During my visit to France a year and a half ago, we promised to make every Nigerian proud of a credible transition and we are glad to have accomplished that.
“We will do better in 2015. Discussions are on to ensure that Nigerians living abroad can participate in the next elections if not in everything then at least the presidential and gubernatorial elections.
“We do not want to meddle because INEC is an independent body, but we will work with INEC to see how this can be achieved,’’ the President said.
He told the organisation that their clamour for a Commission was before the National Assembly and would hopefully scale through before the end of the seventh Assembly.
On transport and infrastructure, Jonathan encouraged those with contributions to come home and invest their experiences from schooling abroad, while promising that insecurity would soon be history in Nigeria .
“All the people involved in the 2010 Independence Day and Suleja bomb blasts have been arrested. People are being arrested, but until investigations are concluded we cannot make them public.
“We commend the security agencies for being on top of the situation and God willing, terrorism will be reduced to the barest minimum.
“We know that the perpetrators are idle and we are looking at job creation t hrough agriculture to engage them to forestall future occurrence. ’’
He also condemned the sponsors of terrorism and encouraged the gathering to be the best in all their endeavours.
According to him, President Obama of the U.S said of Nigeria, “Nigerians are very fantastic people and not because of your crude but one basic resource you have are your brains”.
Jonathan said:  “There are 25,000 qualified Nigerian medical doctors living in the U.S alone and that is only in medicine.
“The main thing is to create an enabling environment back home and that is why we are working very hard on power to boost and enlarge more businesses.
“We had fruitful discussions on the just concluded meeting for investors. We mean well for the country, we are moving forward and will continue to move until we get to where we are going”.
The President NIDOe-France, Chief Sam Obiejesi,  thanked the President for his support to Nigerians abroad and pledged on behalf of the association to “deploy skills and assets to partner and work with the Federal Government to better the lives of Nigerians’’.
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, ministers, and some notable Nigerian businessmen were at the meeting.(NAN)

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