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The People’s Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has promised to give 30 percent of his appointments, if elected to women, while 40% of the appointment his administration will make to the youth.
Atiku, while speaking on Tuesday at a campaign rally held in Osogbo, Osun state capital, emphasized importance of youth in the nation’s building and promised youth in the country 40 per cent appointments to his cabinet if elected president.
He said 30 percent of his appointment would also go to women whom he said they play very prominent roles in the development of the country.
According to him, APC led federal government has failed to deliver on its electoral promises.
“They promised you job, have they given you? They promised security have they given you? They have nothing to offer,” Atiku said.
While urging people on the need to defend their votes , the PDP presidential candidate urged Nigerians not to allow their vote to be stolen saying the report at their disposal indicated that APC has connived with the INEC to collect all the uncollected PVC to APC governors.
In his remarks, the national chairman of PDP, Mr Uche Secondus, lamented the hardship Nigerians were experiencing in the last three and half years of APC rule, saying Nigerians committed an error by voting President Muhammadu Buhari into power.
Secondus added that Nigeria needed a agile and healthy president with good understanding of pains and sufferings of the citizens.
He then urged INEC and security agents to maintain high level of neutrality, saying the electoral body was conniving with the ruling APC to rig the forthcoming polls.
“I want to warn INEC and Security agents to be neutral. The new IG , Adamu Muhammad should clean the mess left behind by the former IGP.
“Police is an institution to secure the life of the people not a section of the people or cabal,” Secondus said.
He also urged electorate in the state to turn out en mass and vote for PDP, saying their stolen mandate would soon be retrieved.
Also speaking, former governor of Osun, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; former Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose; Titi Atiku among other speakers, canvassed votes for the PDP presidential candidate to rescue the country from precipice.
JOHN OLANIYI, Osogbo
