Atiku Abubakar,GCON   On Atiku Policy Position, 13/10/2014

1. Embark on a direct intervention throughPublic Works Programmes
2. Support Productive Job creation initiatives by public and private sector
3. Narrow Skills Gap in the labour market
4. Foster Women Empowerment and address the Gender-Gap job opportunities
5. Encourage and Promote Entrepreneurship amongst the youth
6. Promote local ownership of job creation initiatives
7. Discouraging Nepotism in jobs placement
8. Propose amendments to all legislations hampering effective job creation and review employment laws including labour-market deregulations.
9. Encouraging Venture Capital and Private Equity investors to invest in local startups.
10. Drawing up a new deal with Micro Household Enterprises
11. Enhancing the security of (commercial) contracts
12. Establishing an independent Competition and Anti-Trust Authority
13. Helping Accelerate Start up Incubation times
14. Introducing Business Impact Assessments
15. Encouraging and rewarding formalization of Micro Household Enterprises
16. Ensuring that Public Procurement Rules benefit capable SMEs
17. Promote and Facilitate non-oil exports and
18. Facilitate the creation of business clusters
19. Increased support for the informal sector
20. Encourage and reward banks that lend to small and mid-sized businesses.
21.     INFRASTRUCTURE AND POWER

1. Creating a Sustainable Delivery System to address the dearth of Infrastructure
2. Aggressively increasing the power generation, distribution and transmission capacities of the sector by strengthening the Gencos, Discos and Transco.
3. Creating Sustainable Funding Structures to drive Infrastructure and Power development
4. Leveraging Private Investment in Power co-generation capacity
5. Co-fund PWPs that help federal, state, and local authorities build and maintain infrastructure
6. Invest in local government capacity to develop and expand infrastructural provision
7. Review the federation account and restructure government finances to boost infrastructure development
8. Encourage infrastructure maintenance initiatives
9. Reward private efforts to maintain and upgrade basic infrastructure.

1. Raising Educational Standards across our schools
2. Boosting Educational Achievements in our Primary and Secondary Schools
3. Encouraging and rewarding private sector to narrow skills gaps and widen participation in educational provision
4. Encouraging businesses to lead vocational training efforts
5. Encouraging business to re-train unskilled workers
6. Rewarding households that keep children in the school system
7. Encouraging the re-training of public service workers
8. Improving the structure and curriculum of our educational system to make it more relevant to labour market needs.
9. Publishing league table of performances at all levels of education

1. Increasing the visibility of security agents
2. Improving access to security services
3. Improve Police-Community relations
4. Aggressively combating the scourge of Terrorism and Insurgency by increased resources and better co-ordination between the security agencies
5. Replace the Security Adviser with a National Security Council
6. Improve Civil-military relations
7. Pave the way for the establishment of State Police
8. Improve and Guaranty Rapid Emergency Response
9. Clarify LGA/State boundaries to pre-empt and defuse inter-communal conflicts
10. Improve border security
11. Total overhaul of national security structure.

1. Offer public service users information, voice, and choice
2. Leverage federal transfers/devolution to expand basic service provision
3. Benchmark (federal) government performance transparency and accountability
4. Invest in local government capacity and accountability
5. Strengthen corporate governance
6. Promoting increased devolution of Powers to State and Local governments.
7. Establishing a link between Representation, Governance and Taxation
8. Ensuring a deeper appreciation of citizenship to all Nigerians
9. Ensure Participation and Equal Opportunity for all
10. Cultivating appropriate environment for unity and sense of belonging
11.  Improving Public Sector Service Delivery
12. Improving Policy Formulation and Implementation
13. Promoting a zero tolerance attitude towards corruption.

1. Address the Land Use Act to improve small scale-farmers’ access to land
2. Offer broad based support structures to farmers and small Agribusinesses
3. Helping farmers and Agribusinesses Agglomerate and Manage Risk
4. Helping farmers and Agribusinesses market their Output
5. Helping farmers and Agribusinesses cut their Operational Costs:
6. Helping farmers increase Farming Productivity
7. Establishing an Agricultural Fund and reinvigorate the Agric Bank of Nigeria to be able to support agricultural production and Bank of Industry for high level value addition.
8. Reintroducing previous viable and sustainable agricultural programmes with emphasis of rural infrastructural development, such as National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA), FEAP and elements of the DFRRI.

The following initiatives will be launched  to address the security and economic decline and foster socio-economic reintegration of the regions:

1. A  Niger-Delta Continuous Development Agenda
2. A Niger-Delta Social Awareness program
3. A Niger-Delta Reform Agenda
4. North-East Comprehensive Economic and Infrastructure reintegration program
5. North-East Security Master Plan and;
6. North-East Social Reintegration initiative