Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), will begin a tour of states with high incidents of flooding across the country on Tuesday.
A statement by Atiku’s media adviser, Paul Ibe says the presidential candidate will be visiting Bayelsa State, to kick-start the tour.
According to Ibe, “the tours to states ravaged by flooding become incumbent in view of the trauma that the incidents have caused its victims.
“The tour will provide the presidential candidate the opportunity to have an on-sight impact assessment of these flooding incidents and give him a veritable window to input those ecological concerns in his policy documents.”
Recall that the PDP presidential candidate had supported flood victims in Jigawa, Yobe and Kano long before now. He was also the first candidate to speak on the issue and had counselled that persons living around the most vulnerable areas be temporarily evacuated following the alert by the meteorological agency that 24 states faced the risk of major flooding.
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The PDP flag bearer whose presidential campaign train stormed Edo on Saturday assured the people that the party “will restore security in the country.
“We will put more police on the streets, we will equip them, we will fortify them and since we have promised to devolve more powers to the states and local governments, you can also have your own local police.”
The PDP candidate also promised to “send back all our eligible children to school, adding that “they must go to school, every child must go to school. If you remember during the PDP years we establish primary school education, compulsory from primary to secondary and we are asking Nigerians to educate these children but this government is not keeping to that promise. We promise you that every child must go to school, and our universities will not go on strike we promise you that one, by the grace of God.
Aminu Tambuwal the director-general of the Atiku Presidential Campaign, also assured that the PDP will see the end of terrorism in the country.
“When PDP was in government, couldn’t you travel easily? We are coming to restore our country to its place in Africa. Today we have only one message for the youth, message of the social contract in PDP, that this government that will do real democracy, a government of the people by the people for the people that is your social contract.”
