President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared that Nigeria cannot be transformed overnight, saying that the development was a gradual process.

Jonathan made this affirmation shortly after the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Revd. Nicholas Okoh, conferred on him the Primatial Award of Excellence in Christian Stewardship at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The president noted that he was satisfied that his administration was making tremendous progress in the right direction and promised that he would remain focused to better the lives of Nigerians.

His words, “We have our transformation agenda. It is not something we can do overnight. Even if you have all the money in the world, if you want to build a six-storey building, you must give yourself a period that must be a time for you to complete that project.

“We have drawn our map and we have progressed. I believe we are progressing in the right direction. For you to really build a society, you need to do things that are critical and continue to do them well. And those things will now change the world that we are.