Nigeria: 2015 - Jonathan Threatens to Sack Appointees

21 February 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan has threatened to dismiss any of his aides or any other appointee of the Federal Government who abandons his job for politics or campaigns ahead of the 2015 election.

He also revealed to his party men his government's plan to review the implementation of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment (SURE) programme because it had become untenable given the failure of the administration to achieve a 100 per cent deregulation of the downstream oil sector of the economy.

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