The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said that he would be done with at least 80 percent of his restructuring agenda for Nigeria within the first six months of assuming office.
Nigeria’s new president is due to be sworn in on 29 May, which means that end of November is the deadline set for himself by Atiku to fulfill the promise.
At the grand finale of the ‘Atiku-Okowa and Nigerians in Diaspora Working Together to Fix Nigeria’, held at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja on Friday, Atiku, who was represented by the Deputy Director of Research and Strategy of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo said: “Within six months of taking office, he (Atiku) would have done 80 percent of the restructuring this country needs. This has been worked out and waiting to be sworn in on 29 May and will be rolled out.
“Atiku is convinced that in the First Republic when each region owned whatever God gave them, the Federal Government cannot administer. Now we have come to a point where we are depending on oil and gas. Foreign companies that are working in Nigeria have not invested in our country in the last four years. Indeed they are disinvestment because alternative energy is the order of the day”.
He also stressed the importance of voting for Atiku whom he said has the experience and political will to take decisions that would positively impact ordinary Nigerians.
According to him, Atiku’s plans for the education sector would revolutionise the sector because he already had hands-on experience running secondary and tertiary education in his native Adamawa State.
Nwodo explained that Atiku has put in place a scholarship scheme whereby the first five leading students in his schools enjoy a scholarship thereby promoting healthy competition among students.
He stressed that because of Atiku’s ability to negotiate and keep to agreements, there has been industrial harmony in his schools as well as his business concerns at home and abroad.
Nwodo also reiterated Atiku’s commitment to the privatisation of the nation’s refineries from where he intends to generate at least $10 billion to solve some of the nation’s most pressing problems including youth unemployment among other things.
