Ebun Francis|
Former Vice President and presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday vowed to return his home state of Adamawa and Nigeria back to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Atiku who also decried the rate of unemployment in the country made the declaration while officially flagging off his presidential campaign in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
He accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government of poor leadership and worsening the nation’s economy and the level of insecurity in the country.
Addressing a huge crowd that graced the rally, Atiku said he is confident that the PDP would reclaim power at the centre from President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC if he was given the party’s ticket.
He equally promised to revamp the nation’s security architecture, ensure the safety of lives and property, as well as fix the economy if elected as Nigeria’s president.
Atiku declared, “Today, we have the highest unemployment rate in the history of our country. More than 10 million youth are unemployed,” Atiku told a gathering of supporters and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the rally.
“Today I have returned to reclaim what rightly belongs to the PDP,” the presidential aspirant said. “My fellow Nigerians, the government of APC has failed; it has failed to unite Nigeria.”
According to him, Nigeria is facing its worst security challenge since it gained independence.
“Today, we are more divided than any other time in the history of this country. The APC government has destroyed our economy. They took over an economic growth of seven per cent and brought it down to less than two per cent,” he claimed.
Atiku, a constant fixture in Nigeria’s presidential race circuit, decamped from the ruling APC in November 2017 and returned to the PDP in the quest to become Nigeria’s president in 2019.