A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, yesterday, said that he would set up a committee from the first day of his presidency to look at the issue of additional state for the South East, if given the opportunity to become Nigeria’s president in 2019.
Addressing PDP members, including delegates to the party’s national convention at the state secretariat in Owerri, Imo State, Turaki said he believed in restructuring that would ensure true federalism, resource control, devolution of power and additional state for the South East.
A statement by the Director Media and Publicity of the Turaki Presidential Organization, Sola Atere noted that the Nigeria Police was being over-stretched in carrying out its constitutional duties, saying if given the opportunity, he would look at the issue of state police.
He said his presidential aspiration and that of other aspirants in the PDP were not about individual interests, saying it was about the bigger picture of salvaging Nigeria from the shackles of insecurity, poverty, economic strangulation and pervasive injustice and intimidation which the APC had allegedly subjected Nigerians to.
Speaking at the event, Sen Sam Anyanwu described the presidential aspirant as a man of conscience for addressing fundamental issues that were troubling the nation.
