Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has revealed his plans to reduce unemployment in the country.
Speaking during an interactive session with the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Atiku, expressed his intention to bring back the economic policies used between 1999 and 2007 by the PDP, including strengthening the country’s private sector.
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He said,” Liberalising the economy is broad. Empowering the private sector is broad and of course, continuing with the privatization of our public enterprises. In other words, (we will create) a more private sector-driven economy.”
The PDP presidential candidate also faulted the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for a “lopsided appointment of heads of security agencies”.
He assures that PDP will use the country’s security forces to not only unite the country by including all geopolitical zones but also reduce unemployment.
“Today, we have 17 heads of various security agencies. All of them come from the North; I will not do that. I will make sure that every geopolitical zone is represented in these security outfits. This is also another way you can unify this country and give every part of this country a sense of belonging.
“By the time you double the strength of the Nigeria Police Force, maybe you will be talking about 700,000 or so. You will have reduced unemployment. So, we will extend that operation to the armed forces. By the time you finish doing that, you will find that you would have taken more than one million people out of the unemployment market,” Atiku said.
