Ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, yesterday, said that its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would wipe away the tears of the South-East people, if he is elected as president.
In a chat with Vanguard, Director General of the PCC of Atiku/Okowa, in Anambra State, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, noted that the people of the zone had been relegated in the country, such that they were not reckoned with in the scheme of things since May 29, 2015.
Okonkwo stated that the PDP candidate would first bring the exclusion of the zone to an end, while carrying out the restructuring of Nigeria, as he had repeatedly pledged.
Besides, he assured that Atiku’s economic policy will liberalise the economy and give impetus to the people of South-East, who are business-inclined, to excel in trade and commerce.
His words: “Atiku will wipe away the tears of the South-East people. All those things that our people have been losing would be redressed, starting from exclusion, the restructuring policy, which will bring out the best of people of the South-East, liberalisation of the economy and supporting the private sector, which is our core area.
“Also, bringing security to the South-East, which will herald economic development, and execution of the Appeal Court judgment on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as well as security appointments that will bring us back to the top position in the security architecture of the country.
“The Atiku Presidency will also bring fairness in the distribution of national wealth that will bring about infrastructural development. All those things that should be our expectations under him and, eventually, he would crown it with support for the PDP presidential ticket for the South-East at the end of his tenure.”
Also speaking, Deputy Director, Public Affairs (South), of the Atiku campaign, Chijioke Agu, gave reasons the South-East should support the Atiku/Okowa Presidency.
Agu said: “I encourage our brothers and sisters who are rightfully agitating for president of Igbo extraction. We should also be mindful of the implications of throwing all our eggs in one basket.”
