2023: PDP New Generation Holds Northwest Youth Symposium for Atiku/Okowa
- PDP youths in the northwest region of the country say they are ready to deliver 3 million votes for the Atiku/Okowa ticket in 2023
- They made the vow at a zonal youth symposium organised in Kano state by the PDP New Generation
- The keynote speaker at the event was former NHIS boss Prof Usman Yusuf, while Senator Shehu Sani was one of the discussants
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Kano - A leading pressure group under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) called PDP New Generation held another zonal youth symposium in the northwest region of the country on Saturday, December 24, in Kano state.
According to a statement sent to Legit.ng on Monday, December 26, by the media team of PDP New Generation, the event witnessed thousands of youths from across all the seven states of the northwest.
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In his welcome address, the Director General of PDP New General, Audu Mahmood, stated that the symposium seeks to open up a discourse on nation-building as regards PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and all other PDP candidates in the northwest.
He said:
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“As a youth-driven organisation, the strategic plan of Operation Deliver Your Unit is to deploy three polling unit agents, across the Northwest states, with a target to deliver all PDP candidates at all levels.
“With this initiative, the PDP New Generation, as a body, is focused on delivering and contributing over 3 million votes to the Atiku/Okowa ticket in the northwest.
“As it stands today, leadership challenges are staring at every Nigerian in the face, especially the youths. Therefore, it is time to RESET, it is time to RECOVER, and it is time to CHANGE the CHANGE.”
He concluded by calling on all young Nigerian in the northwest states, to join hands in making sure that during the 2023 general elections, they use their collective voices, strength and Permanent Voters Card to vote for PDP at all levels..
In his presentation titled “The Role of the North West in Resetting Nigeria - A Challenge for the New Generation”, the keynote speaker, Prof Usman Yusuf, emphasised how the All Progressives Congress (APC) has mismanaged the affairs of Nigeria in the past seven years.
He said most members of the APC-led government benefitted from the Nigerian system of a good education but chided them for their inability to manage and provide an enabling environment for lecturers in the university system.
He then called on young Nigerians to vote APC out at all levels in the forthcoming general elections.
One of the discussants at the event, Senator Shehu Sani, said that according to the Debt Management Office, PDP left a debt profile of about N12trillion and as of today it is over N45trillion.
He further said that the APC government needs more experience and capacity to manage Nigeria’s economy, which is why inflation has tripped.
He concluded by saying Atiku’s the only presidential candidate that can recover and rescue Nigeria.
Renowned journalist Bashir M Bashir and Hajiya Halima Zubair Danbatta, spokesperson, northwest, PDP New Generation, moderated the panel of discussants.
Other dignitaries at the event include Guest Speakers, Sen Shehu Sani, Hon. Bashir Adamu Jumbo, OFR, Director Special Duties (North), PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Hajiya Salma Wakil, Director of Women Affairs.
Others are Alhaji Musa Bello, Alhaji Mohammed Sadiq Wali, Alhaji Yusuf Bello, PDP senators, House of Reps and House of Assembly candidates from Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi, Jigawa, Zamfara and Kaduna.
2023: You won’t spend your next Christmas on petrol queues, Atiku promises Nigerians
Meanwhile, Atiku has promised Nigerians that they will not spend their next Christmas queuing for petrol at filling stations if they vote for him in February.
Atiku said this in his Christmas message which was signed by his special assistant on public communications, Phrank Shaibu, and sent to Legit.ng on Saturday, December 24.
The former vice president said the All Progressives Congress administration had set a new record for the most prolonged petrol scarcity in the history of Nigeria.
Atiku pledges to address insecurity in Katsina, donates N50mn to victims of banditry
Recall that Atiku recently promised to address security and economic challenges bedeviling the country if elected in 2023.
The former Nigerian vice president said this on Tuesday, December 20, at the PDP presidential campaign rally in Katsina state.
He noted that PDP was determined to move the country forward and called on Nigerians to come out en masse to vote for the party’s candidates in the 2023 general elections.
Source: Legit.ng
