Goodluck Jonathan--Nobody Can intimidate PDP

                   President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday maintained that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot be intimidated by any party as it has performed well in the last 16 years.
                   He spoke during a one day workshop and strategic meeting for members of the PDP Ward Volunteers Scheme at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
                   According to him, his administration has opened up the various sectors of the economy and enabling more Nigerians to be involved in the economy.
                   “On behalf of all of us who are contesting, I thank you because when you market the party you are marketing the candidates. You are doing well for our party.                 
“PDP is not just the largest party in Nigeria but it is the only party that has members at all voting units. There is no other party whether two, three four, five parties coming together, they cannot reach that level. PDP has members in every voting units in this country,” Jonathan said.
Stressing that elected PDP officials have done well at all levels, he said: “sometimes, you see people that have done nothing coming to intimidate us. Yesterday when I was in Lagos with some young people, I told them that they can set up their own independent monitoring group to assess us, we are doing better than others.”
“It is only in PDP states that things are working. If I compare the quality of Government Houses and Presidential Lodges, the ones in PDP states are better in quality, even state universities opened by PDP states are better.”
He went on: “The PDP states are committed to education, but sometimes people come and say we have done nothing, and the intimidation is more to the extent that even in the states where we are more, where we even have PDP governors, they come to intimidate us, and we have to resolve that we cannot allow people who are not up to us to intimidate us.”
“At the state level and at the national level, well at the national level, we cannot compare our standards with theirs because they have not had the experience and we will not give them the opportunity. but I know they will not do well.
“PDP is the only party that brings about peace in this country. And I always say that when you see people talking and you see the bitterness in their hearts, you see the frustration, the anger, and you see them as people who are already feeling guilty.
“If you don’t have a forgiving heart, if you don’t have a clean heart, you cannot rule Nigeria, because you cannot give out what you don’t have.” he added