The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Abubakar Atiku has assured the people of Kogi State that if elected as president he will complete the Ajaokuta Iron and Steel complex and also the Maritime port in the State.
Speaking in Lokoja yesterday, during his presidential campaign rally, he said he is out to rescue the country from poverty, adding that he will create jobs, saying he will set aside 10 billion US dollars for job creation and entrepreneurship.
According to him, the issue of University closure and “our children out of schools for eight months will no longer be there”. He further mentioned that if voted as the next president of the country, salary arrears will be a thing of the past.
Earlier, his running mate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa called on the people of the State to vote en masse for the PDP, stressing that the only way they can chase the All Progressive Congress (APC) from power is to vote them out of come February election.
Okowa, who is the governor of Delta State, noted that the people of the have suffered enough for eight years, as he called on the people of Kogi-Central to stand firm during the election and vote out the APC government from the State.
Also speaking, the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, who received over 1,400 decampees from APC to PDP, including the former deputy governor of Kogi State, Chief Simon Achuba, former Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Alfa Imam and one of the strongest politicians in Kogi-Central, Yahaya Karaku and their supporters said the Party is happy in receiving the decampees to PDP in Kogi State.
Among those who spoke at the rally including the former governor of Kogi State, Ibrahim Idris, Idris Wada, the governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, and a host of others.
