BY: Vitalis Ugoh, Calabar
The debt burden the present administration under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has plunged Nigeria are in trillion of dollars, the presidential campaign council has revealed.
This was disclosed by one the team leader, Senator Gershom Bassey while addressing the momath crowd that received them.
According to him, the APC administration has resorted to taxing the people on everything in order to meet up with their cost of running government.
Bassey vividly said “APC at the national level has failed Nigerians with this huge debt it is leaving for the incoming administration”.
He said Atiku government has come up with a 5- point blueprint Agenda that will tackle this mess.
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 so it is driven by innovation, science and technology.
Also speaking, Ntufam Ekpo Okon and Ntufam Etta Mbora also reminded the crowd that “if there’s any chance of redeeming the present situation, then PDP should be voted back to power at all levels.
The National women leader Prof. Stella Effa Attoe, said the administration of APC is the worst ever and people should not miss the opportunity by rallying around the People’s Democratic party and vote them out.
Earlier, the leader of the delegation and DDG Ops Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, His Excellency Senator Liyel Imoke said that “as it is now, it is only PDP that has the solutions to the present bad governance and leadership”
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He also noted that whatever they have been re-echoing amounts to repetition, as Atiku /Okowa presidency remains the only viable option for Nigeria.
The PDP Cross River State Presidential Campaign Council led by the leader of the Party in the State, Senator Liyel Imoke , along with notable Party chieftains including Sen. Gershom Bassey , the Chair – CRS PCC and the National Women Leader, Prof Stella Effa-Attoe had moved the train to Akamkpa and Biase local government areas in continuation of the sensitizition program.
They met with traditional/religious bodies, civil society, Party faithfuls and the general populace on the need to believe in the Atiku /Okowa ticket and PDP as the only panacea for correcting the eight disastrous years of APC that has left the citizenry impoverished and despondent.
Sen Imoke had implored the people to shun the ruling All Progressives’ Congress(APC) because it had failed the people on all sides and therefore unworthy to be entrusted with power again at the Federal and State levels.
He cautioned the people against a resort to ethnic sentiments in their voting decisions, saying that votes wasted on Labor Party and other mushroom parties would amount to conferring advantage on the rudderless APC and reinforcing failure.
Also speaking the Senator representing Cross River South in the National Assembly, Sen Gershom Bassey, 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.
He recalled the National Bureau of Statistics document which 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.
Also the PDP National Women Leader, Prof Stella Effa-Attoe pleaded with the people never to accept nor vote any party except PDP.
High point 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.
