Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has promised that his government will invest ten billion dollars in youth development and education.
He declared this at a big assembly of PDP supporters and members at UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar ahead of the presidential election.
He stated that if elected, his government will prioritize security and the two things.
Atiku said, “We’ll allocate $ 10 billion for the education of our youths and empower them with skills thereby eliminating poverty and criminality. With this, jobs shall be created and insecurity in the country shall reduce drastically.”
He said it was becoming a reality that the country would not move forward with the current political situation.
Atiku, therefore, promises his government will certainly restructure the country, adding that this would be treated as a major policy thrust of his administration.
“We shall move to restructure the country as a major policy of the incoming PDP government by reducing the powers of the federal government and giving them to the states and local governments, so that we will hold all our leaders from all tiers of government responsible for development.
“This will make the Federal Government less powerful and then a greater powers and resources will be deployed to the state for the good of our people,” he stated.
“Let me also assure you that with the PDP in charge, your agricultural produce shall have value with road network to ready markets will be a priority and Nigeria and people of Cross River State shall smile again.”
