2019: Former Minister Of Information, Gana Declares For Presidency

Prof Jerry Ghana (Photo credit: File Photo)

Jerry Gana Promises Restructuring If Voted In

Ahead of the 2019 general election, Prof. Jerry Gana, a former minister of Information, has declared his intention to run for the Presidency and also used the opportunity to lambaste the President Muhammadu buhari administration for failing to fulfill its promises to Nigerians.

The intention was revealed in Abuja on Thursday while Gana was speaking with newsmen and supporters at the national secretariat of the Social Democratic Party where he went to purchase the N1m expression of interest form.

The former minnister stated that the tension currently in the country has not been this intense since the end of Nigeria’s Civil War in 1970.

Gana said, “With the utmost sense of responsibility and honour, I hereby express my well-considered interest to aspire as the Presidential candidate of the SDP with a view to ultimately contesting in the forthcoming Presidential election in 2019.

“Being a patriotic and committed democrat who has carried a burden for the rapid, effective and even development of our dear nation for decades, I am deeply concerned with the very real prospect of Nigeria imploding unless our great party comes to the rescue with a God-fearing, dynamic leadership.

“Nigeria is facing an existential threat, the seriousness and proportion of which have never been witnessed since the end of the civil war.”

Gana promised to effectively tackle the security challenges in the country if voted into office.

Gana said any government that failed to protect lives and property was an incompetent one.

He added, “The security of the lives of the people is the primary purpose of the government, according to the constitution. Any government that cannot secure the lives of Nigerians is not worthy of being called a government.

“Therefore, APC, Nigerians are tired of you. The SDP is coming, the SDP will win and the SDP will govern well and Nigeria will be at peace.”

He stated that the only means to maximize the Nigeria potential is to restructure the country and ensure that power was devolved to the states.

He said with restructuring, states would be able to exploit their resources and security would be decentralised.