LEADERSHIP reports that the President made the claim in Benin during a campaign rally.
President Jonathan said, ''change takes place every day. If you move from you bedroom to your sitting room, you have made a change but you have not transformed yourself. If you move from your sitting room to your kitchen, you have changed but you have not transformed yourself.”
Speaking the popular Pidgin English,President Jonathan said, ''As we dey talk today, it is that we go move this country forward. If you don read some books, person wey transform a country called Singapore. Singapore and Nigeria been dey the same level but e transform Singapore from third world country to first world country.
''That is the transformation we are talking about. We dey talk about transformation and that is why as we dey talk about school, this is a government wey be say when we come, we know say so many Nigerian young people no fit get space for our university because we know say universities wey dey our country no plenty reach.
''Them they go Ghana, go everywhere to study. Na im we come say make we get enough universities, too; make we see whether people go come here. So, we open 14 new universities. For secondary schools, if you look our law wey them dey call constitution, no be de work wey federal government dey do but because we know say we go make sure say our young people go school, we build them plenty.
Speaking on the importance of building schools instead of prisons, he said,''We know say if person do bad thing, government say make you no do dat thing again. That is why police dey. But wetin we like be say we go build schools for Nigerians, no be to build where we go go lock people where them dey call prison. Prison no dey bring better thing out; na schools. The people wey dey say them want change, ask them say when they were there, how many schools them build for us?''.
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