Atiku Can Get Our Economy Working Again – Sowunmi

The Spokesperson for the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Segun
Sowunmi, says he believes that the presidential candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, can fix the
nation’s economy among other key issues.

He said this on Monday during an appearance on Channels
Television’s Sunrise Daily.

Specifically, he said with the nation’s increase in population
and decrease in availability of jobs, Nigeria desperately needs
someone Like Atiku who can create more jobs.

He said, “We are of the opinion that right now, Nigeria has lost
more jobs for a population that is young and growing (at the last
count, 12 million or thereabout, sometimes 13) and therefore, you
need someone that can really create jobs because we have a young
population.

“The implication of having a young population is that you could
really double your population in a very short time and if you’re
not taking job creation very seriously, you could implode your
country just on the weight of the number of people. So, we need
someone who can create jobs. Atiku can create job”.

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He further stated that with Atiku’s achievements as a
businessman, he has the capacity to improve the economy through
private sector partnerships and prevent it from sliding back into a
recession.

“The indicators from the CBN and the world bank is that we could
slide back into a recession if we are not careful.

“We need to bring someone into government who understands how to
run government and open it up, so that private sector dictates can
then push government and you can then create good opportunities for
private sector people to come and help you develop the company like
you see all over the world.

“Atiku is a businessman. He’s run a business well. He knows what
it takes to partner with the private sector, he knows what it takes
to bring foreign direct investments into the country. He has done
it before and he can do it again.

“He can get the economy working again. We cannot be the most
miserably poor people in the world and be happy with that. We need
someone who is going to bring business-like discipline into the
running of government, that’s why we are saying let’s get Nigeria
working again, let’s put Nigeria in charge,” Sowunmi said.

He also stated that Atiku has the capacity to solve the nation’s
security problems, lamenting that Nigeria has been divided along
ethnic and religious lines.

Beyond that, Sowunmi believes he can eradicate poverty and put
food on the tables of the poor masses.

“Nigeria is very divided now. We fought a civil war sometimes
ago and for some reason or the other, we found ourselves in a
situation where the country is just divided. We are no longer
dealing with just terrorism.

“We are dealing with animals and farmers and herdsmen. We are
dealing with kidnapping and a whole lot of issues that seem to have
divided us around ethnic lines, religious lines and all of the
lines that you can possibly imagine.

“We need someone who has significant buy-in from all the
sections of the country, who can pull us back again. A democrat who
listens and takes consensus. Someone who considers restructuring or
conversations around restructuring, important enough to hold.

“Nigeria has major security challenges. A lot of people have
tried to solve the security challenges but somehow we’ve not been
able to. We are of the opinion that one of the reasons why we are
not able to solve the security problem in the country is to find
someone to manage our cross-border issues.

“We believe that Atiku can get Nigeria working again, he can put
food on the people’s table,” he said.

Katoge Community Embarks on N10m School Project in
Katsina

The Katoge Community in Ketare District of Kankara Local
Government Area of Katsina State in collaboration with the
Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA) have embarked on a
N10 million secondary school project to alleviate the suffering of
indigent students.

Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the school
project, the Kanwa of Katsina and District Head of Ketare, Alhaji
Usman Bello Kankara said it was high time communities rise to the
challenge of developing their areas through communal efforts such
as the school project.

The Monarch noted that the time has gone when people will fold
arms and expect government to do everything for them adding that
it’s very important for people to embark on self-help projects.

He said the community day secondary school initiated by
communities of Katoge in Ketare district of Kankara local
government is in support of the state government transformation
agenda in the educational sector.

While commending the efforts of the community for initiating the
project, Bello Kankara pledged adequate support to any community in
his district that embarked upon self-help project through communal
efforts.

He therefore urged the management of the school to liaise with
their counterparts of Tsamiyar Jino and Pawwa who have similar
community schools for advice.

He called on parents and guardians to ensure they enrol their
children and wards into school and encourage girl child education
to bridge the existing gap in girl-child education.

He said while the education department of the local government
will post some teachers, the community will also employ some
teachers on both part time and casual basis, stressing that the
state government will provide both the principal and vice principal
of the school.

He said the school is expected to accommodate at least 300
students in the village of Katoge while other surrounding villages
will be catchment areas via the reception of their wards to the
school.

He emphasized that the days of going to Gurbi and kankara
secondary school with the attendant danger of crossing rivers and
streams are gone now with the community school now in place.

Earlier in his welcome address, the village head of Katoge
Alhaji Tukur Dan Galadima expressed appreciation of his people of
the area to Kanwa for the fatherly role in making the establishment
of the school a success.

Alhaji Tukur Dan Galadima said the school has since started at a
temporary site in the village noting that there are many catchment
areas to benefit and feed the school with students.

The Transition Committee Chairman in Kankara Alhaji Anas Isa
Kankara who was represented by his Vice Chairman Alhaji Umar Yahaya
Girbobo assured support of the local government to the development
of the school.

Also speaking at the occasion, the Education Secretary in
Kankara Local Government, Alhaji Kabir Ali said the department will
ensure posting of adequate staff to compliment the efforts of
people of the area.

The member representing Kankara in the state assembly Alhaji
Garba Dan Alhaji who was represented by Alhaji Bello Bello donated
some amount of money for the development of the school.

Shortly after the laying foundation ceremony, the Kanwa was
conducted round the land provided by the community for the
construction of blocks of classroom, offices and toilets.

By PRNigeria