“I am ready for a debate, but that will be when a candidate emerges from the party. I know how a presidential debate is done all over the world, but here somebody is challenging me to a debate at this time...“I am waiting for the party to invite me for presidential debate...That is why our administration is assuring Nigerians that if given another four years, we would try and make the country better.”
-------Goodluck Jonathan on Presidential debate
"A lot of violence against women occur under the umbrella of culture, tradition, religion, etc. Violence against women is a human rights abuse because in every act of violence against women, there is a human rights abuse. When a woman is being beaten by her husband or kicked around, that is torture! And, Chapter 4, our constitution which focuses on fundamental human rights says “Every Nigerian; man, woman or child, has a right to dignity of the human person, freedom from torture, etc” What is dignifying in the way widows are treated? Their dignity is taken away from them!"
-------Josephine Effa-Chukwuma, Founder, Project Alert on violence against women
"The security people are on it. We will get to the root of the matter. I urge Nigerians to remain calm... To me they are pure criminals that demons are using these days, not only in Nigeria but also in acts of terrorism across the whole world...For those of you who have time to listen to world news on Al-Jazeera or CNN, you will see that terrorism is crisscrossing the whole world."------- Goodluck Jonathan on the New Year's Eve bomb blast at Sani Abacha Barracks in Abuja
