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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has promised to relocate the Niger Delta Affairs ministry to the zone if elected president in the 2023 general elections.
Atiku, who made the promise on Friday at an interactive session with the business community in Abuja, decried the level of development in the Niger Delta.
The PDP candidate noted that, as president, he would ensure that the Niger Delta Affairs ministry lived up to its expectation of developing the region. Atiku stated that when he proposed the creation of Niger Delta Ministry, as presidential candidate in the 2007, the idea was that the ministry would be situated in any part of the Niger Delta.
Atiku also promised that, if elected president, he would give premium to women empowerment, noting that the empowerment of women is critical to increased prosperity.
“If we are to recover Nigeria from its current mess that the APC has put us through, then we must begin that recovery from the demography that is most hit by the failure of the APC, which are the women and youth.
“The records are there to compare the performance of the PDP and the APC and the upcoming election should be a referendum on the performance of the APC.
“Nigerians have had a taste of the two parties, and I am not saying this for myself, but we should be proud of the records that the PDP offered,” Atiku said.
