- APC's zonal presidential campaign director, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has said Buhari will win Atiku in the northeast
- Ndume said Atiku's wealth is not felt in the northeast as he has never helped the poor people in the region
- The APC campaign director said Buhari has improved the lives of the masses with with many economic schemes
The All Progressive Congress (APC)’s presidential campaign zonal director, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, has said President Muhammadu Buhari will defeat Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the northeast, the influence of Atiku notwithstanding.
In an interview with Leadership, Ndume put the likely likelihood of Atiku’s loss on the fact that the PDP's candidate never brought any kind of development to the northeast all through the period of eight years he was the country’s vice president.
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He commented further on the wealth of Atiku, saying that the ex-vice president is not known in the northeast because he has not had an effect on the people from the region.
Unlike Atiku, Ndume claims, Buhari has helped the masses in many ways, citing that the president organised the anchor borrowers scheme which helped farmers, TraderMoni scheme which has helped petty traders around the country and N-Power, a scheme for the unemployed youth.
He said: "Atiku, as I said was one of the most influential vice presidents of the country under the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was given all the powers devolved upon that office and his performance is there for Nigerians to judge. As I have said, 16 years of PDP governance which he unarguably played a formidable role, took Nigeria from bad to worse; even the PDP recently apologised to the country for its misrule.
As for Atiku, if you read the book of his former principal Obasanjo, entitled Under My Watch, you would see the letters and terms he described Atiku with. And as for us from the northeast, we have not seen any development that Atiku brought to the northeast in his eight years of being one of the strongest vice presidents.
Well, he is an extremely rich person, but that is to himself and maybe by extension to his family. An average poor man in the northeast and Nigeria in general doesn’t know that Atiku is rich because they have not seen anything that he did to lift them from cradle of poverty. Besides, there is no practical concern or empathy from him to those people to warrant him being given the opportunity to be president.
There is also the ‘N-Power-Enhance’, designed to advance the social investment programme (N-Power) which has empowered thousands of Nigerian youths across the country. Beneficiaries are engaged in different areas of public service, including education (N-Teach), health (N-Health), agriculture (N-Agro), building/construction (N-Build). Beneficiaries are paid a monthly stipend of N30,000 during their period of engagement. This is to mitigate youth unemployment in the country."
Ndume speaks on the qualities of Buhari, citing the discipline nature of the president and the many things he did when he was a military administrator.
He said:"My support for President Muhammadu Buhari is borne out of my conviction, based on my encounter with him while I was very young.
Remember that during his military days he was appointed military administrator of the northeastern state around 1976. In those days, he instilled discipline, transparency and honesty in the system which made most youths then adore and adopt him for mentorship."
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub had been appointed by Buhari as his senior special assistant on National Assembly (House of Representatives).
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The appointment according to a statement by the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, followed the resignation of Kawu Sumaila as the senior special assistant to the president on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).
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