The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, has described President Goodluck Jonathan as the best President in the history of the Nigeria.

Highlighting all the various achievements of the Jonathan-led administration in the last four years, Akinjide said the efforts of the president have transformed all sectors of the Nigerian nation more than any other person that has occupied the office before him.

Addressing management and staff of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, while on a visit aimed at intimating the hospital community of her plans for the hospital in 2015, the minister said the electoral process has been buoyed and enhanced with the sustenance of credible and fair elections in Nigeria which had deepened our hard earned democracy and earned global respect and credibility for our country.

She said: “The freest and fairest elections in Nigeria held under President Jonathan. Between 2011 and now we have had five bye-elections out of which the opposition parties won four and PDP only won one in Ekiti State. President Jonathan believes in rule of law and sanctity of the Nigerian constitution. He does not use power arbitrarily.”

Akinjide added that even when a state of emergency was declared, President Jonathan allowed the elected state governors remain, unlike former president Olusegun Obasanjo, who swept elected governors away.

Enumerating the transformative changes in the education sector, the minister said: “in our 100 years of existence as a nation, Nigeria had 24 universities but in four years of Jonathan, he has added half of what we had in 100 years. The issue of low standard of education among youths and children has been frontally tackled with the introduction of Almajiri schools in the north.

“More so, he organised the national conference where all decisions were taken by consensus and creation of additional states, especially Ibadan State, which has been a mirage for years.”

She added that the power sector also received some boost with the completion of the privatisation of the sector, adding that the Jonathan the administration met 2,000 mega watts of electricity but has now increased it to 4,000 mega watts, expressing hope that in 2 years there will be stable power in Nigeria.

“On women empowerment, at present, there is 35 per cent women inclusion in government with a promise of increasing it to 50 percent if re-elected. Apart from guaranteeing that the nation’s press operates in an atmosphere of total freedom, President Goodluck Jonathan assented to the Freedom of Information Act which gives Nigerians access to information on government activities and policies.

If President Jonathan has done this much, I can assure you that things can only get better under his watch if re-elected,” the minister said

Reeling out the various ways the minister has been of assistance to the hospital, the Chief Medical Director of UCH, Professor Tope Alonge, described Akinjide as a true friend of the institution.

His words: “Oloye Jumoke Akinjide is truly a friend of the University College Hospital, Ibadan and she has demonstrated her passion for this great institution in many ways. She has provided funds for the de-silting and dredging of the lake that stores water for the hospital’s water treatment plant; procured a generator to pump water from the Braithwaite tank to the 5th floor of the hospital.”

According to Professor Alonge, “The minister has also secured N500 million for the renovation of the old Midwifery block and construction of a new Midwifery block. She donated medical and surgical consumables to the tune of N25 million. These consumables have been utilised during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) containment exercise, the burns victims during the petrol accident and a large consignment has been sent to three mission hospitals and a health centre.”