Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has promised to wipe out Boko Haram and help business owners revive and expand their businesses in order jump start the economy, if elected President in 2023.
Atiku made the promise while addressing a crowd of party supporters at PDP presidential campaign in Gombe, Gombe State, yesterday.
The former Vice President, who addressed the audience mostly in Hausa, said:
“What I want to pledge here in Gombe is to ensure that we give businesses the support to set-up industries that will give youths, both males and females, jobs.
“Recall it was the PDP that built the Dakin-Kowa Dam to provide electricity to the North-east and give farmers the opportunity to farm. I will create wealth and jobs in Gombe State, if you give me the mandate.
“I promise you that if you elect me, what we have started I will ensure electricity that will be provided from Dakin-Kowa Dam will be sufficient for the entire North-East.
“I will enhance farming so that our farmers will have the opportunity to farm both during raining and dry seasons.
On his other plans for the North East geo-political zone, Atiku said: “Gombe, Bauchi, Adamawa, Borno and Yobe are all interconnected; therefore, I will ensure that we build roads to enable smooth trip within these states with ease and ensure that commercial activities thrive.
“I will return peace to the state because without peace, all these pledges that I made cannot be actualized, I will wipe out Boko Haram. Boko Haram is nothing.
“We have wiped out Boko Haram in Adamawa, what will stop us from wiping out Boko Haram in Borno or Yobe or anywhere they are in this country. Therefore, give us the mandate.
“When Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Prime Minister, most of you were not born, don’t you want another Tafawa Balewa in the North-east?
”This can only be actualized by voting PDP and here I am the one that will give you the opportunity to produce another Tafawa Balewa.”
