Atiku to Commence Tour of Flood-Ravaged States Tuesday
POLITICS DIGEST – Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, will commence a tour of states with high incidents of flooding across the country on Tuesday.
According to a statement by his spokesman, Paul Ibe, the PDP presidential flag bearer will commence the tour from Bayelsa state.
According to Ibe, “the tours to states ravaged by flooding become incumbent in view of the trauma that the incidents have caused its victims.
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“Consequently, the tours will provide the presidential candidate the opportunity to have an on-sight impact assessment of these flooding incidents and give him a veritable window to input those ecological concerns in his policy documents.”
“Recall that the PDP presidential candidate had supported flood victims in Jigawa, Yobe, and Kano long before now.
“He was also the first candidate to speak on the issue and had counseled that persons living around the most vulnerable areas be temporarily evacuated following the alert by the meteorological agency that a further 24 states faced the risk of major flooding,” the statement read in part.
