Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, moved his campaign train on Wednesday to the historic city of Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State. If elected president of Nigeria in the February 25, 2023 election, the former vice president promised to devolve power to state and local governments.
“We have promised to devolve more powers to Ogun State and the local governments,” the septuagenarian politician told a crowd of uniformly dressed party supporters at the Ake Palace Ground in Abeokuta, on Wednesday.
“We have promised to make sure industrialisation of Ogun State because Ogun State is endowed with so many mineral resources in order to create jobs and prosperity. The PDP government will make sure the exploration of those mineral resources in the industrialisation of Ogun is made a priority,” he explained.
Atiku also said the administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has failed Nigerians since it took over power in 2015 and should not be returned to office this year.
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“The APC government has failed us. Therefore, it is our responsibility to not return them to power,” he said.
Speaking to party supporters present at the gathering, the PDP national chairman accused the APC administration of failing to provide suitable locations for PDP presidential campaigns at the state level and added that Nigeria needed to be rebuilt.
If elected next month, Atiku, he assured the state’s citizens, would bring Nigeria back to its “better days.”
“Anywhere we go and it is an APC-controlled government, they make sure we don’t get a venue. They are worried that they are going to lose power. Yesterday (Tuesday), we were in Ekiti, they refused to give us the appropriate venue. They closed all filling stations, there were no buses,” Ayu said.
“That should tell you that PDP is bouncing back; we are stronger than ever.
“Nobody should worry about whatever obstacle they put on way, we will crush them at the polling units, we will crush them at the wards, we will crush them at the local governments and we will crush them nationally. We must recover this country, we must rebuild Nigeria.”
“We know you are suffering, many of you can’t even eat in your houses – rice is over N50,000 a bag. We know the cost of producing a tuber of yam.
“Life is unbearable for you; you can’t even buy fuel. I want to assure you when Atiku Abubakar comes back to power, life will return to the better days the PDP was able to create,” the Benue-born politician said.
