{"id":101891,"date":"2022-12-11T06:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T05:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101891"},"modified":"2022-12-11T06:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T05:07:50","slug":"insecurity-abuja-no-longer-safe-will-receive-greater-attention-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/insecurity-abuja-no-longer-safe-will-receive-greater-attention-atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity: Abuja no longer safe, will receive greater attention –\u00a0 Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has promised to enhance security nationwide with special attention paid to Abuja because of its special status as the nation\u2019s Capital.<\/div>\n
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\nHe also promised to restructure Nigeria and give the indigenes and residents of the Federal Capital Territory a greater sense of belonging if elected President come 2023.<\/p>\n

Atiku made the pledge during the PDP Presidential Campaign rally, at Eagle Square Abuja, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

While appealing to the people of the FCT to vote for him, Atiku said, \u201cIf you give us your support again, we will do more than what we did between 1999 and 2015 for the residents of Abuja.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll your entitlements under the current constitution, all the appointments that belong to Abuja will be given to Abuja. You know that we have done so before and we are going to do so again.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf what you have demanded requires constitutional review, we assure you that we shall support that constitutional review so that your aspirations are protected and guaranteed in our new constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore so, we have pledged to restructure this country, in the process of restructuring, we shall give you all that you are demanding. I want to assure you that, and I want to promise you that.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently we have challenges. Can you imagine Abuja not secured? Can you imagine Abuja the federal capital not secured? We shall protect Abuja and secure it for your own safety.\u201c<\/p>\n

The PDP candidate further said, \u201cOf course, you are aware of our five point agenda. We shall unify this country. Every part of this country will be given a sense of belonging.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo part will be sidelined, no part will be marginalised. That is how to bring a sense a unity in a country like Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have pledged to restore security, it is very very essential that we give everybody peace: a farmer peace to go to the farm, a trader peace to trade, peace to everybody.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is only when there is peace that we can undertake our different aspirations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have promised that education is key to youth development. We have the highest number of out of school children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will make sure that these children go back to school. Not only that, we will make sure that our universities reopen forever and ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of Abuja, before anybody feels the impact of government, you will be the first because you are in the federal capital. I promise that a PDP administration will fulfill all these obligations. We thank you very much indeed.\u201c<\/p>\n

Also speaking at the event, the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, urged indigenes and residents of the FCT to continue to keep faith with the PDP as they have done over the years.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWe won AMAC, we won Kuje, we won Bwari, in other words Abuja is PDP. We don\u2019t need to come and campaign to you because we know what to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly vote for our president Atiku Abubakar, because he knows what you are going through, every citizen of Abuja is suffering.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur suffering is rising with high cost of rice, a bag of rice is almost N50,000. most us you will not enjoy Christmas because of the APC, we are suffering from high cost of gas, a kilogram of gas we don\u2019t know how much now?<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people who came with lies to vote for them have created so much poverty that today Nigeria is the capital of poverty in the world.
\nHe lamented that under the All Progressives Congress, Nigeria\u2019s debt profile has risen to a level that most Nigerians now hide in shame.<\/p>\n

According to him, with Atiku as President, this trend will be reversed and the economy will bounce back.<\/p>\n

Ayu also said, \u201cWe don\u2019t want an experimental president, we don\u2019t want a president who will come and deceive you and would not know what to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know we wake up one day here in Abuja and we were threatened that the whole of Abuja is going to be attacked, insecurity is affecting everybody many of you all over the country you can\u2019t travel to your home states because the roads are blocked by bandits, the railways are blocked by bandits, the airports are attacked by bandits, we can\u2019t run a country controlled by bandits. Return this country to the PDP and see what we will do for you.\u201c<\/p>\n

Chairman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, who also spoke at the event, said, \u201cAtiku is the man that can speak to this economy and the economy will start jumping, the man that will speak to the economy of Nigeria and it will come back to life.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday even fuel, we don\u2019t have fuel to come to this place, everything that PDP left have all vanished, Atiku is ready to tackle everything in this country, tackle youth unemployment, tackle the restiveness in this country, people will have other things to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also the Director General of the Campaign and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, said, \u201cWe\u2019re here at the center of unity, we\u2019re here at the Federal Capital Territory. The candidates that are running for the presidency of Nigeria are very well known to every Nigerian. I\u2019m sure you know whom the cap fits and it is of course, Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n

\u201cAtiku Abubakar has experience of governance at the National level, at the federal level. He is very familiar with the issues of the FCT and I am sure, he will address all of that when he comes on stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me reassure you that this team being led by the unifier, is prepared from day one, to provide real leadership, for the reunification, for the restructuring, re-securing and for the recovery of Nigeria from all it\u2019s challenges.\u201c<\/p>\n

The campaign was attended by party supporters from all six Area Councils in the FCT, members of the PDP National Working Committee as well as serving and former governors among others.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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