PATRICK ABANG Calabar
Former Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke has assured the people of the state that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), remain the only viable option to restore the country’s lost glory and should be voted into power in 2023 elections.
Senator Imoke, who is the leader of the state presidential campaign council stated this during town hall meeting held over the weekend in Calabar.
He implored the people to shun the ruling All Progressives Congress because it had failed the people on all sides and therefore unworthy to be entrusted with power again at the federal and state levels.
Sen Imoke cautioned the people against a resort to ethnic sentiments in their voting decisions, declaring that votes wasted on Labor Party and other mushroom parties would amount to conferring advantage on the rudderless APC and reinforcing failure.
According to Imoke, Atiku’s 5-point agenda: include to restore Nigeria’s unity through equity, social justice, and cooperation, To establish a strong and effective government that guarantees the safety and security of life and property. To build a strong, resilient, and prosperous economy that creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. To promote a true federal system which will provide strong Federal Government to guarantee national unity while allowing the federating units to set their own priorities. To spearhead education reform which will be driven by innovation, science and technology.
He reiterated his assertion that: “It is only PDP that has the solutions to the present bad governance and leadership”, adding that whatever they have been reechoing bears repetition ,as Atiku /Okowa presidency remains the only viable option for Nigeria
In his remarks, Senator Gershom Bassey gave a warmth welcome and told the crowd of teeming supporters who thronged the venue, that APC at the national level has failed Nigerians.
Senator Bassey said the debt, the present administration of Buhari has incurred in trillion of dollars, revealing that the APC administration has resorted to taxing the people on everything in order to meet up with their cost of running government.
He said as a representative of the people, he had seen it all in terms of the negative change the APC had brought upon the country and its citizens in the last eight years running.
The lawmaker recalled the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) release, disclosed that 133 million Nigerians are multi-dimensionally poor while 63 per cent of Nigerians were poor by reason of lack of access to healthcare, education, good living standards, employment and security. He said, voting PDP will right those wrongs.
He, however, said The PDP presidential candidate has come up with a blueprint that will tackle these challenges bedeviling the country, which is the Atiku’s 5 Point Agenda.
On her part, The PDP National Women Leader, Prof Stella Effa-Attoe pleaded with the people never to accept nor vote any party except PDP.
Highpoint of the town hall meetings was a reception for defectors led by a leader, Comrade Godwin Urom Ibe, popularly known as Sir Bello(001) and other APC members .
The town hall meetings also had in attendance Hon Obetem Okorn, DG, CRS PPC , Hon Itam Abang, Member, Boki 2 ,CRSHA, Hon John Gaul, Former Speaker CRSHA, Hon Austin Aidam, PDP Candidate for Akamkpa/ Biase Fed Constituency, House of Assembly candidates from Akamkpa and Biase LGs, traditional leaders, CAN and PFN leadership, civil society organizations, Party faithfuls, among others.
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