The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that if elected, his administration will set aside $10billion to create employment and boost small and medium scale enterprises to help employment drive for youths and women in the country.
Atiku said this at PDP’s presidential campaign rally in Ilorin Kwara state where a massive crowd greeted the party’s campaign train.
The former Vice President carpeted the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, over insecurity in the country, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari and his ruling party have failed Nigerians in the area of insecurity.
Atiku, also bemoaned the state of insecurity and infrastructure decay in the country. He cited Kwara as example, saying that the state connects both the south and north but bad roads have hindered growth in the state.
Earlier, in his speech, the Vice-Presidential candidate of the PDP, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, said he is happy with what he has seen in Kwara.
He said that the huge crowd that received PDP showed that people are very hungry and are ready to drive away hunger.
He said: “The PDP is ready to create employment and won’t allow our children stay eight months without going to school.”
He further assured: “PDP will win in all six geo-political zones of the country. We will work with the people and rebuild Nigeria.”
The Chairman of the Party, Senator Iyiorcha Ayu, said that the PDP is one big united family. “We are on our way back to victory. PDP has come back to rescue Nigeria and put it back on development track to rescue all families.
“Don’t allow anyone to deceive you; we are hungrier than we were in 2015. Bring out your voter’s card, come out en masse and vote all PDP candidates especially Atiku in the general elections,” he said.
Ayu later presented the PDP’s flag to Shuaibu Yema, the governorship candidate of the party.
The PDP governorship candidate said the people of Kwara are tired of “APC misrule, which have plunged the country into debt, especially the state, of over N300billion.
On his part, the former President of the Senate, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, asked the party’s supporters to vote massively for all candidates of the party in next year’s elections, saying the people can trust him and the party’s leadership.
His words: “I stood and fought for democracy, APC came and lied to you and now you know the difference. It is time for Nigerians, starting from Kwara to kick out APC.
“When PDP was in power, the exchange rate was N200 to the dollar and now it is N800; we are all tired.”
The former Senate President said that Atiku loves Kwara since the days of his father. “Other candidates don’t love you, they merely want to exploit you,” he told PDP supporters in Kwara
Earlier, the Kwara State PDP chairman assured the party’s supporters in the state that, “Our incoming President, Atiku Abubakar would restore security and revive the economy.”
Governor Aminu Tambuwal, the Director General of the party’s presidential Campaign Council, in his remarks thanked the Kwara PDP for a warm welcome and urged the people to vote massively for Atiku in next year’s election.
Picture above: The massive crowd of supporters who received Atiku in Ilorin on Thursday