{"id":101554,"date":"2022-11-24T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101554"},"modified":"2022-11-24T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:30:11","slug":"2023-atiku-promised-to-set-aside-10-billion-to-tackle-youth-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2023-atiku-promised-to-set-aside-10-billion-to-tackle-youth-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Atiku promised to set aside $10 billion to tackle youth unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has declared that the issue of insecurity and youth unemployment would be a thing of the past in the country if he\u2019s given the mandate by the electorate in the 2023 poll.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, who stated this on Thursday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, at the Atiku\/Okowa presidential campaign, promised to set aside 10 billion dollars to tackle youth unemployment when he becomes president, saying: \u201cWe are not here to deceive you and we will make sure that our youths are well employed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APC doesn\u2019t have the capacity and experience to tackle Nigeria\u2019s problems. I want to assure you that PDP will bring an end to insecurity, restore the economy and create employment by setting aside 10 billion dollars to address unemployment.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cI urge you to vote for the PDP candidates from the presidential to state Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have come to return Kwara to a stream of Nigeria politics. I have known the problem of Kwara for a very long time. We have seen that the roads built by the PDP government in the state have been abandoned to deteriorate, PDP will get it fixed again and create wealth and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, for his part, reiterated the commitment of the party to taking over power from the APC in the 2023 general elections.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has declared that the issue of insecurity and youth unemployment would be a thing of the past in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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