My administration has a pact with Nigerians – and that pact I have called the Transformation Agenda. The goal is to leave Nigeria better than I met it. The goal is to give direction to the country, so that our people can live in peace and prosperity.

The ultimate goal of the agenda is to move Nigeria to the developed world. We need to constantly explain this to the people so that as it becomes clearer, more and more people will come on the train. This buy-in is critical to the success of our agenda —President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai (L) watches on July 14, 2014 Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan look at a book at the State House in Abuja. Malala on July 14 urged Jonathan to meet with parents of the schoolgirls kidnapped three months ago by Boko Haram. Malala, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012 and has become a champion for access to schooling, was in Abuja on her 17th birthday to mark the somber anniversary of Boko Haram’s April 14 abduction of 276 girls from a secondary school in the northeast Nigerian city of Chibok.
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TRANSFORMATION Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, which was incorporated barely five months ago as an NGO, is unequivocally unmatched in the propagation of the ideals and realities of the transformation agenda of this administration.

Tune in to the NTA, AIT and Channels television stations even at odd hours and you will be amazed at the professionalism and decency exhibited in the plethora of adverts and promos by TAN’s egg-heads elucidating the salient and ebullient verifiable achievements of the President and his administrations transformation agenda to all Nigerians. Nigerian youths and other enthusiasts of the world-wide web are members of TAN and follow their numerous activities on its websites – www.tan.org.ng. Others are very active on facebook on www.facebook.com/tannigeria and on twitter: @tanconnectgroup.

Membership of TAN is perhaps the fastest growing of all other organisations of its kind in Nigeria and elsewhere. The attraction according to its new members is based on its rich agenda, style and new ways of packaging public information dissemination which a widespread of the populace approves.Today, thousands of Nigerians from all walks of life, tribes and tongues are members of TAN. The challenges of maintaining and constantly improving on the research methods, production and distribution of verifiable milestone achievements of President Goodluck Jonathan is the task of a group of perhaps the best and brightest professionals that this country can boast of. The impact of TAN in so short a time on the public ratings of the President is amazing. It has jumped from “not approved” to “not sure” and currently to “commendable in the circumstances” to “completely approved” to “Jonathan must run.”

In the beginning, TAN analyzed the rather inadequate positive media exposure of the President in the light of the unprecedented achievements in his first-term in office which no previous President of Nigeria can honestly compare his own first-term in office to. Rather than show-case these achievements, a section of the Nigerian press concentrated on the contrived security challenges facing the country and heaped all manner of blames and insults on a man who should be commended for his focus, determination and tenacity in transforming the economic growth index of Nigeria.

President Jonathan, a debonair gentleman had posited that “transformation is costly. Transformation is painful. There is no leader that wants to transform that will not be criticized.” The promoters of TAN chose to bear the cost of showing Nigerians the benefits of the President’s transformation agenda in the print and electronic media without donations or contributions from individuals, institutions or organizations or even Aso rock itself as the rumor mongers advocated. They chose to bear the “pain” of standing firm with our President when many beneficiaries of the administration are not sure where to stand and are too scared to go public with their support for President Goodluck Jonathan even though Nigerians know and can show the mainly personal benefits accruing to them from the Presidency. TAN took the arm-chair and sometimes, faceless critics of the President to task by challenging them to counter his landslide transformation achievements in agriculture, aviation, world-class dual, triple and quadruple asphalted highways across the length and breadth of Nigeria, railways and water ways transportation, exceeding any other previous President in the history of Nigeria in the number of female ministers of that gender. The statistics, facts and figures are shown live on television and on the websites of the organization.

In Sports, TAN supported the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan by wholly and entirely financing fifteen young Nigerian to fly to Brazil and support the Super Eagles in the recently concluded World cup. Further, TAN entered into a memorandum of understanding with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) with a view to educating our youths on the contents and benefits of the transformation agenda of this administration with emphasis on TAN’s planned establishment of “waste-to-wealth” industries in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria and consequent provision of employment opportunities and alleviation of poverty.

In agreement with the President’s submission that “we need to constantly explain this (transformation agenda) to the people so that as it becomes clearer, more and more people will come on the train”, this buy-in is critical to the success of our agenda. TAN has purchased and branded thirty new buses to take the crusade of the transformation agenda in various Nigerian languages to the six geo-political zones of the country in zonal rallies between August and October 2014.

Accordingly, target-oriented committee members of TAN in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria have worked assiduously to secure venues and mobilize TAN members nationwide for zonal rallies that commence with the South-east zone on Saturday, the 16th day of August, 2014 in Awka, Anambra State. The ground shaking rallies will run from this August through October and will cover the South-east, South-west, South-south, North-east, North-west and North-central geo-political zones of Nigeria.  The message in each zone will be education of the masses on their civic responsibilities, the necessity and duty of ensuring that they seek and obtain their permanent voter cards. Highlighting the transformation agenda executed and executory for each zone, the need for love, peace and unity of all Nigerians as one indivisible country. TAN will also canvass for more membership especially among the unlettered masses unfamiliar with the internet.

In the zonal rallies, TAN will espouse its aims and objectives and the imperatives of embracing the tenets of the transformation agenda that will move Nigeria from a developing to a developed most populous black nation on the fact of the earth under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The clear and present necessity for our corporate energy, enthusiasm and empathy to ensure a united, peaceful and progressive Nigeria of our own dream in this millennium is urgent. Nigeria deserves the membership of developmed nations on merit. For TAN, this is a task that must be done by supporting good leadership with all it has at its disposal