PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has assured Kogi state people and other Nigerians that he will address all matters that have to do with the Ajaokuta Steel Company if elected as president next month.
Addressing a huge crowd of party members and supporters during the Presidential Campaign rally held at the Lokoja Confluence Stadium , Lokoja on Saturday, the former vice president also assured the teeming young Nigerians of creating job opportunities , promising that his government will provide an enabling environment for them to engage in businesses of their choice.
On Lokoja river port ,Atiku said he will complete the project noting that this will enable people in the northern states to participate actively in maritime activities.
He added that the project is not important to only Kogi State but all the northern states, adding that when completed , it will enhance maritime activities in the country.
He urged the electorate to vote for the PDP in the upcoming presidential election ,submitting that the APC administration in the last 8 years had resulted in underdevelopment and economic stagnation.
PDP Vice presidential candidate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa ,who spoke earlier, had pledged that the PDP administration at the national level will tackle insecurity, adding that kogites will be made to sleep with their two eyes closed.
PDP National Chairman, former Senator Iyorchia Ayu urged Nigerians to vote for the party ,promising that life will be better under Alhaji Atiku Abubarka and Nigeria will be great again.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned former Senator Dino Melaye also announced at the campaign rally that 147,000 registered members of the APC had since left the party for PDP in the state.
The defectors , he noted, include former Deputy Governor , Mr Simon Achuba, the immediate past Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly , Umar Alfa Imam and a prominent politician in Kogi Central , Yahaya Abubarka Karaku .
Speaking on behalf of the defectors, Simon Achuba described the APC administration in the state as anti- people – Team@orientactualmags.com
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