Atiku blames APC for joblessness, insecurity

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has attributed the spate of insecurity in the country to failure of Federal Government to provide jobs for youths.

Speaking at the party’s campaign rally in Minna, Niger State yesterday, Atiku said if voted into power, the PDP government would provide the needed jobs that would tame the menace of insecurity.

He said: “So, this is a promise and a commitment I am making on behalf of PDP, if you vote for PDP. I want to commit to you that if you vote for PDP, the insecurity which they have not been able to control, we shall control it.

“They have been unable to control insecurity because they have been unable to provide jobs and businesses for the people. So, by the time we provide jobs and businesses for our young men and women, you will hear less crime and less insecurity.

“So, I want to promise you on behalf of our great party to sack the All Progressives Congress (APC) government and let us send them packing. Like I used to say, Buhari must go. APC must go.”

The PDP presidential candidate blamed the ruling APC for the social and economic ills plaguing the country, stressing that the ruling party has reneged on its campaign promises to the Nigerian people.

“In 2015, they came to tell us that PDP did not do anything. We should change. And we changed. And they promised to fight corruption, to improve our economy and also to secure our country. Have they achieved anyone of these three?

“When they came in, there was insecurity only in the Northeast. Today, there is insecurity in Northwest and Northcentral. And we have lost more lives at any other time in the history of this country in peaceful times. They have failed as far as security is concerned.

“When it comes to the issue of economy, we have lost more jobs; over 10 million jobs, to the extent that Nigeria has been declared the headquarters of poverty in the world. This is a record.

“Have they fulfilled that promise? Now I want to promise you that if you vote PDP, we will restore the jobs that had been lost. You either get a job or get a business to do”, Atiku added.

Also speaking at the rally, Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki, restated the resolve of the PDP to run issue-based campaign.

Saraki, who is the Director-General of PDP presidential campaign, maintained that the 2019 elections would be a referendum on the APC administration, which he described as a total failure.

Saraki said: “A government that has been with us for three an

PDP National Chairman Prince Uche Secondus, who was also at the rally, also berated President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC.