PDP Govt: Atiku Targets Youths, Women Inclusiveness
BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, LAFIA – Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has assured Nigerian youths and women of priority treatment in his administration if elected president on February 16, 2019.
He said the substance of running an inclusive government, with large youth content, is to adequately prepare the nation’s future leaders and put them in vantage position to harvest experience in effective governance principles.
The former Vice President, who spoke at the PDP presidential campaign in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital on Thursday, said his administration would be committed to effective integration of the youths and women population into the nation’s governance structure.
According to him, “Let me make this commitment that 40 per cent of my government will be dedicated to the youth and 30 per cent to the women.
“This is because I want the youth to garner enough experience to be able to take over from us.”
Atiku said voting for PDP in the forthcoming general elections is a vote to end hunger, poverty and insecurity in the country.
Also addressing the crowd, Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki urged Nigerians and the people of Nasarawa State, especially the youth, to vote for the PDP and Atiku, pledging that the PDP administration would create massive jobs and reduce restiveness in Nigeria.
Senator Saraki lamented that Nigerians’ standard of living had gone so low in the last three years, and assured that voting for Atiku would get Nigeria to work again.
The Senator President, who also decried the high rate of criminality and insecurity in the country, said the APC government has failed Nigerians and must therefore been shown the way out at the polls.
Speaking in the same vein, PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, and the Party’s Vice Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, charged the people to come out enmasse and massively vote for Atiku and all PDP candidates during the elections.
For Secondus, it is important that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies exhibit high sense of neutrality and avoid compromising the electoral process in the overall interest of Nigeria’s democracy.
According to the PDP Chairman; “If INEC and the security agencies love this country, they should allow free, fair and credible election.”
Also, in his comments, Vice Presidential flag-bearer, Peter Obi pledged that the PDP government, if given the mandate, will be committed to take millions of Nigerians out of poverty and make the country work again.
