Sambo made this statement on January 26, 2015 at the PDP presidential rally in Ilorin, P.M. News reports.
The vice-president also reminded that the government had successfully constructed about 20,000 km of tarred roads across the country in the past four years.
In Sambo’s opinion, the President’s administration has brought about positive changes into the nation’s economy, making it the best in Africa.
“Today, the opposition are talking about the economy, the economy already transformed by Mr President. Today, Nigeria is the best economy in the African continent. It is not just by accident but the policies that Mr President has put in place and the actions he has taken.
“When we came in, the power generation in Nigeria was about 2,000 megawatts. Today, I’m happy to inform you that we are generating over 4,500 megawatts in this country and we are moving forward. Mr President has transformed the power sector.
“We have privatised the generation and distribution of power in Nigeria successfully, one of the best privatisation that has been carried out all over the world.”
Sambo assured the people that the positive transformation of the economy was not by accident but by the experience, by planning and development that the President put in place under the Peoples Democratic Party.
Therefore, the vice-president urged the people of Kwara to cast their votes for Jonathan as well as other PDP candidates in the upcoming elections.
Senate President David Mark, in his turn, has announced that the electorate in the North Central zone of the country had already decided to vote for the Jonathan in the presidential election.
In his speech, Mark described the losing of Nasarawa to the opposition party in 2011 as “a mistake” on the part of the PDP. But he also assured that Kwara and Nasarawa states would defenitely support PDP in February 28 governorship election.
“We want to say very emphatically in the North Central zone that we will vote massively for PDP, we will vote for you as President of this country.
“I want to assure you Mr President that the North Central zone will give the highest votes in 2015.
“We are going to vote massively for all our governors.”
While addressing the people of Ilorin, President Goodluck Jonathan promised that he would not run a government of intimidation if re-elected for second term.
He further went on saying that he would not preside over an administration under which Nigerians would be thinking they are in a zoo where small animals would be afraid of the big ones.
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