President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday called on  politicians in Nigeria to turn a new leaf in 2014 and start to place national interest above every other motives in order to make Nigeria great and bequeath a better country to the next generations.

He made the call while speaking at the Catholic Church in Area 3, Abuja, where he observed his New Year Church service.

According to the President , the time has come for all politicians to begin to plan for the next generation instead of wasting all energies on their own personal interests and personal gains.

He noted that Nigeria has the potentials not only to be great but to provide leadership for the African continent.

The year 2014, he insisted would be better than 2013 as he maintained that sustainable power supply will be attained in the country from the middle of this year.

He said: “All what we need to do is to make sure that we continue to do things rightly. That is why I always plead with my fellow politicians that yes we must play the politics but let us take the interest of the country more than our own individual interest. And as we continue to play the politics in that direction, leaders will come and go but the country will stay.”

“Luckily, we have a Constitution that says that nobody will be a governor or president forever. It is only in the parliament that you can be there till you die. As long as we consider the interest of our country, children, grand children and we begin to plan for the next generation instead of wasting all our energies to think about ourselves. Before we get to the next 100 years, the country will be better. Nigeria can even change in the next few years and things will be better for everybody.”