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The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, on Sunday in Abuja has declared that no amount of distraction could derail President Goodluck Jonathan from his Transformation Agenda.
He said Jonathan was ``still determined to develop the country to the envy of the comity of nations, in spite of the challenges of insecurity which have overheated the polity’’, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
The minister said the President was addressing the deficit in infrastructure through systematic policy reforms which had started yielding results in different sectors.
He said the construction of 7 power plants has just been concluded and that 32 road projects were completed across the country in 2012 as part of the infrastructure renewal.
He urged Nigerians to disregard ``the rantings of the political opposition who are bent on misleading the public for selfish political reasons’’.
The minister also told the congregation that Jonathan had the constitutional right to re-contest the presidency in 2015, if he chose to do so.
He then solicited the support of Nigerians for the President to consolidate on the development of the country, saying “Nigerians reserve the right to decide who to vote for in the elections, based on the track records and achievements of the candidates,”
Maku said this at the Lutheran Church of Christ during a Pre-Centenary Service.
He added that the missionaries provided the bedrock for the educational development of Nigerians without recourse to tribe or religion.
The Officiating Priest, Most Revd. Nemuel Baba, said the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria played critical roles in the past 100 years towards promoting peace and inter-religious harmony.
Baba said the Church would soon mount a national prayer campaign to complement the government in the areas of peace, moral re-awakening and anti-corruption crusade, among others
