While PDP Presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, restated his promise to provide security and qualitative education among other things that made up his five-point agenda for Nigerians, if elected president come 2023.
He also said he was committed to the development of the country.
Addressing party faithful and supporters at a campaign rally at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, Atiku who thanked the people of Edo State for voting him in 2019, said he would carry everybody along by devolving the power sector and unifying the country if elected, adding “that is why we are being referred to as unifier”.
“We are going to provide security, community policing and education, to enable every child go to school, our universities will not go on strike”.
Besides, the PDP Presidential candidate promised to revive the economy to allow industries resume production and provide jobs for the unemployed youths, just as he promised to provide infrastructure- roads and efficient rail system in partnership with the private sector.
Atiku, while urging the Edo people to continue to stick with and vote for the PDP, promised to fulfil his electoral promises, adding that the party will pay them back.
Also speaking, his running mate and governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, said the PDP made a great choice for Edo and the Niger Delta by fielding Atiku and himself.
He said Atiku knows the problems in the Niger Delta, explaining thatit was his time as Vice President that the NDDC was established but that the agency had failed to make impact in the last seven years because the APC government does not know the purpose of its establishment.
He therefore urged the people to vote Atiku and the PDP to deliver the country from hunger and insecurity.
On his part, Governor Godwin Obaseki called the electorate to throw their support behind Atiku and Okowa so that the legacy of the funding father of the PDP in the state would be in vain.
On the other hand, the members of the Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Legacy Group, a faction loyal to the party’s National Vice Chairman, South-South, Chief Dan Orbih, and the Senator Representing Edo South Senatorial District, Senator Matthew Urhoghide were conspicuously missing at the PDP Presidential rally
This is even as the Governor of Rivers state, Barr. Nysome Wike and his Oyo, Benue Abia, Enugu counterparts were nowhere around the venue of the rally.
Notable amongst the PDP legacy members that were not at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, venue of the PDP Presidential Rally, are Chief Dan Orbih, Edo State PDP Vice Chairman, Barr. Henry Omagbon, House of Representatives Member, representing Oredo Federal Constituency, Engr. Ogbeide-Ihama, Mr. Pascal Ugbome, Barr. Lucy Omagbon, Engr.Mike Onolemenmen, Larry Okunbor and Ogieva Okunbor.
The Legacy group were also missing during the inauguration of the Edo state Campaign Council on Friday, October 20, 2022 where the Governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki, who is the Chairman of Edo Campaign Council assured that the state is ready to deliver votes for the PDP in 2023 General Elections.
