Atiku PCC presents campaign manifesto to civil society organizations, CBOs and media

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has called on the federal government to declare certain days as holidays so that eligible Nigerians can collect their permanent voter cards (PVCs) across the country just three weeks before the general Assembly. elections.

The accusation was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the strategic meeting of leaders from CSOs, Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), and CDC, themed: National Social Political Economic Development, Atiku Manifestos: A Case Study, signed by Assistant Director, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) for Atiku Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

Presenting Atiku Abubakar’s Manifesto to the CSOs and CBOs, Hon. Yusuf, who claimed that Nigerians voted for President Muhammadu Buhari based on emotion and sentiment but did not look at the development apparatus, assured that the PDP presidential candidate will deliver on campaign promises, adding that all 17 SDG goals are already encapsulated in the Atikus manifest.

He claimed that the civil society organizations play a vital role in monitoring the policies and actions of the government and holding the government accountable, as well as checking the excesses of state and political leaders.

To this end, he stressed the need for the CSOs and CBOs to actively participate in politics by mobilizing citizens through voter education, the pursuit of basic human rights for fellow Nigerians, and the need to vote correctly.

In his view, if the CSOs and CBOs withdraw from playing politics, non-entities will rule the nation.

He also assured that Atiku’s government would break the government’s monopoly in all infrastructure sectors, including refineries, rail transport and energy transmission, and give the private sector a greater role in the financing and management of the sectors, reaping the benefits would mimic those gained in the oil and gas and telecom industries. sectors.

For his part, a front-line member of PDP PCC, Dr. Kayode Adaramodu, who described the PDP presidential candidate as “a prepared president”, claimed that: “Our future president has been a misunderstood politician in Nigeria. When you talk to young people, I spoke to some of them last week, they said no, he will come and sell our stuff, all the young people need is knowledge.”

He also reassured civil society organizations by saying, “If our president succeeds in this upcoming election, this task should not be left to him.

“Civil society organizations must seize the opportunity. I listened to some of you during the introduction, please go and get ready. I know that the Government of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar and civil society organizations will be encouraged to contribute to the national development. I’m close enough to the system to understand this. I’m close enough to help our Mr. President and his thinking about the role that individuals, particularly the civil society organizations, will play in his administration,” he noted.

In a presentation, another PDP PCC member, Dr. Onuoha Nnachi, urged civil society organizations and party members to release the manifesto of the PDP presidential campaign to voters.

“At this stage we are for this election, we barely have 3 weeks to go. Please I want to appeal to the civil society organizations and my party members, there is no better time than this to discuss these policies and social relations and how we are dealing.

“It is no longer time to say what Tinubu is not doing, what APC has done wrong. It’s time to tell them what we’re going to do. The message should be different now, we have come to the point of what we are going to do,” he insisted.

According to him, Atiku’s manifesto is divided into three parts, namely Economy, Human Capital Development and Governance and Deconcentration of Power.

Although dr. Nnachi assured that civil society organizations and the private sector would be protected under Atiku’s administration, said Dr. Nnachi, reiterating Atiku’s commitment to the transfer of power: “There are certain things that are on the Exclusive List that shouldn’t be there. So that’s where the devolution of power comes in.

“I give you a typical example, from the exclusive list, there is no state allowed to own the power plant – power generation, why? So under Atiku, transfer of power, these things will be transferred to individuals. If you want to build your power plant, build it, we can’t stop you.

“If the local government wants to build a power plant, build it, if a state wants to build a power plant, build it. Once you start with the 774 local government areas that we have, if each local government starts building a 100 MW power plant or a 300 MW power plant, it becomes a sustainable force for economic development when you add them together. That is the decentralization of powers.

“Another transfer of power is when you talk about tertiary institutions. These institutions, what does the federal government have to do with holding these institutions? How does the federal government find out that my village needs a health center? It definitely doesn’t work.

“Do you know what we’re going to do? We will authorize the local government to provide primary health care. That by giving them that power, we will also give them the means to do it.

“This also goes on to state police. We are ready and ready, we are not hiding it. The state police must come and stay. But it has to be sequential depending on how ready each state is and its criminal nature. If you are ready to have state police in your state, apply. But the government has to make a reservation that we force the governors not to abuse it,” he stressed.

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