2023: Atiku promises to tackle Insecurity, provide jobs, youth empowerment

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has promised the people of Ondo State that he would create jobs, rehabilitate the roads and tackle the prevailing insecurity across the country if elected President come 2023.

Atiku made the promise while speaking at the presidential campaign rally in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Wednesday.

The former Vice President promised to provide enough funding for the education sector to guide against any strike, unlike the recent Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike under the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.

Atiku who thanked the people of Ondo for giving him and the PDP the highest votes in 2019 said “We are starting our campaign rally in the South West from Ondo State, because we want to show you that we appreciate what you have done for us in the last election.

“By giving us the highest votes in the Southwest, we will never forget you, that is why if you repeat the support again, we promise we will definitely deal with insecurity. We will eliminate it. We will also make sure that all the Federal roads linking Ondo state and other parts of the country are made very motorable.

“I have also undertaken to make sure that our young men and women, you are the one who are gathered here today, you are the one who are suffering in the sun today. You are going to vote for us and protect the votes for us. We promise you, we will set aside enough money to make sure that we empower you for your jobs, for your security and for your families.

“That is why in our our policy documents, we said we are going to set aside 10 billion US dollars to make sure that we provide small and medium enterprises for young men and women, to create jobs and to empower themselves. This is our number one priority.

“Our people of Ondo State, we also promise that we shall, by the grace of God, provide enough funding for education so that our universities can continue with their work, not what the APC are doing today”, he said.

Also speaking at the rally, National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu told the crowd that of all the presidential candidates that are jostling to be elected as the next President, it is only Atiku who has the experience, the will and ability to pull the country out of its current “very bad shape, insecurity, poor education services, poor roads, poor everything, and indebted country.”.

Ayu said Nigeria needs an experience leader, somebody who has done it before, adding that “Ondo is an educated and enlightened state. You know the right thing and that is why you have always voted for PDP.

“Don’t be despaired that they rigged the last election. PDP is coming back to rule Ondo state. But for us to come back, we as a party, must remain united in Ondo state, there should be no divisions.

“Work together to win the Presidential election and in Ondo state, give us the highest votes. The return of PDP at the National level is the return of PDP in Ondo state.

“At the national level, we have chosen a candidate that I don’t need to campaign to you, he is your in-law. His children have Yoruba blood flowing in them, so he cannot forget you and let nobody convince you that he is more Yoruba than our brother Atiku Abubakar”, Ayu stressed.