2023: Oshiomhole Declares For Presidency, Vows To Create 20million Jobs, End Insecurity
Kabir Akintayo
A former Governor of Edo State and former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, formally joined the race for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday in Abuja.
At the Cyprian Ekwensi Ekwensi House in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the former President of Organised Labour appealed to Nigerians to stop lamenting the state of the nation but take concrete steps on how to redress the situation.
Comrade Oshiomhole said if, given the opportunity to pick the APC ticket at its May Convention and Nigerians trust him with their votes in 2023, he would give priority to job creation in order to eradicate poverty.
The former Edo State governor specifically said that under his administration, nothing less than twenty million jobs would be created across the country as he noted that “when Nigerians have decent jobs, it would be illogical to carry Ak-47 around”.
According to him “my economic policy will be based on eating what you produced and all the moribund factories will be revived to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians.”
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On Education, he promised to engage with all stakeholders in the education sector and ensure that all the problems bedevilling the nation’s education sector were eradicated.
He said given his background as former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, it would not be a tall dream to have a fruitful, roundtable discussion with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU).
He also assured that the judiciary would be given the autonomy that it deserved and rule of law will be strictly adhered to at all levels of government.
The presidential aspirant, who said he has what it takes to lead Nigeria, stressed that insecurity will be a thing of the past in Nigeria if given the opportunity to serve.
He said: “There is no argument that poverty is a threat to our national prosperity. Nigeria needs revival in all its facets, especially the economy. It’s sad that almost all what we consume in the country isn’t being produced here. That’s why the rate of the poor people is high.
“To start with, we need to imbibe the logic of producing what we consume and consume what we produce. That should not be. There should be a space for our intelligent youth.
“Local production must be revived. We must be compelled to manufacture what we produce and produce what we manufacture. That way, there will be decent jobs for the unemployed.
“This is not hard to do as a country because we have all we need. We only need courageous leadership to turn our enviable resources around. We need strong economic policies for things to work as expected.”
