*ex Deputy Gov leads 1,400 decampees from APC to PDP
By; ADAMA JOHN, Lokoja
The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Atiku has assured the people of Kogi State that he would complete the Ajaokuta Steel Complex in addition to the establishment of a maritime port in the state.
Speaking during the weekend while on campaign rally to the state, he said he is out to rescue the country from the shackles of poverty as ten billion US dollars will be set aside for job creation and entrepreneurship.
According to him, the issue of university closure and “our children out of schools syndrome for eight months will no longer be there” if voted to power, adding that salary arrears will be a thing of the past.
Earlier, his running mate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa called on the people of the state to vote in mass for the People’s Democratic Party to oust the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the political stage in the country.
The governor of Delta State noted that the people of the state have suffered enough for eight years as he called on the people of Kogi to stand firm during the election and vote out the APC government from the state.
Also speaking, the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyocha Ayu who received over 1,400 decampees of APC to PDP said that the party was happy to receive the decampees to PDP in Kogi State.
APC big wigs in the state that abandoned the party include the former deputy governor of Kogi state, Chief Simon Achuba, former Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Alfa Imam and a strong politician in Kogi central, Mr Yahaya Karaku and their supporters.
He called on the people of the state to rally round all the PDP candidates in the coming election by voting them and the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar stressing that the eight years of APC in the country has reversed to stone age.
He commended the people of the state for their impressive turn out to welcome the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his Vice presidential candidate Okowa.
The senatorial candidate of the party, Barr. Natasha Uduaghan while speaking said the people of Kogi state were ready to vote out APC’s bad governance from the state.
She said the uncompleted Ajaoukta Iron and Steel complex is an issue that is given the people of the state great concern adding that the only person that can complete the project is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the next president of the country.
Among those who spoke at the rally include the former governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, Alhaji Idris Wada, the governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal and a host of others.
