The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday emphasised that his restructuring agenda remain intact, if elected as President of Nigeria in 2023.
Penpushing reports that, Atiku made this known during an interactive session with members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors(NGE), held in Lagos, and also restated his commitment to ensuring that necessary constitutional amendments that will cause a transfer of more powers and resources to other tiers of government is activated on his first day in office as elected President
The former Vice President, recalled that he was misquoted by some section of the media at a session with the Lagos Business School Alumni Association on Tuesday in Lagos, which casted doubts on his readiness to implement his restructuring agenda, hence, need to put the record straight at the forum with the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE)
“It is rather unfortunate that a section of the media reported my remarks at an event yesterday which casts doubts on my readiness to implement my restructuring agenda. Let me therefore use the opportunity of this gathering today with the gate keepers of the Nigerian media to say that my restructuring agenda is intact and it will be implemented from my first day in office”, he said
“Already, I have received report from a team of constitutional law experts which I assembled to look into our constitution and highlight areas where there are items that can be moved to the concurrent and residual lists of the constitution. Let me tell you that I will start work on the implementation of that report from my very first day in office if I am elected president next year,” Atiku said.
Penpushing also reports that, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer while responding to questions from editors said that his administration will work closely with the private sector towards ensuring that the gaps in infrastructure deficits are closed.
“The private sector is pivotal to my agenda to rejuvenate the economy and close our infrastructure deficit gaps. If I am elected president, I will work closely with the private sector by giving them incentives to create more jobs and also grant them tax holidays in order for them to intervene in our infrastructure development”, he added
“It is obvious to all that government doesn’t have all the money and the debt burden has continued to weigh us down. Therefore, government has to be creative and engaging the private sector is one way of solving our infrastructure problems in a sustainable way,” Atiku stressed
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