By Babalola Seyi
Festus Keyamo, spokesman for the All Progressives Party, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, has stated that if elected president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu will address income leakages to combat insecurity and unemployment.
This was said by Keyamo, who is also the Minister of State for Labor and Employment when he spoke at the Abuja NAN Forum.
He said that one of the first problems Tinubu would take up was the problem of income leaks, arguing that any significant progress in Nigeria depended on finding a solution to the country’s declining revenue.
According to Keyamo: “The issue of Insecurity and unemployment can be addressed when the issue of our revenue is addressed.
“One of the first port of call for revenue is our subsidy, the subsidy regime.
“Don’t forget that in the 2023 budget, the subsidy was only provided until June. So is he going now to get a supplementary budget in the face of our borrowings, in the face of our deficit budget to further subsidise.
“Do you think a new government will do that”?
Keyamo said that the APC-led administration had set an enviable record on the issue of women’s emancipation.
“We have complied more than any party to the 35 per cent women’s affirmative action. Which other party has complied? We sold our forms for free.
“Let me tell you in terms of elected representatives. Which party since 1999, I mean has gone to the core north to give women their gubernatorial tickets.
“It has never happened in any other party, except APC. It is the party structure that mobilised for them and said make sure you give these women.
“It is the conservative north, not even the south, we gave major gubernatorial tickets to women and you know the two of them- late Aisha Al-Hassan, aka, Mama Taraba and Sen. Aisha Binani, the APC gubernatorial candidate in Adamawa.”
