From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja
Towards the forthcoming PDP delegate elections, a presidential aspirant, Senator Bukola Saraki on Sunday in Lokoja declared his commitment to free up the solid minerals subsector to create massive jobs for the youths in Nigeria.
Senator Bukola Saraki who made the disclosure on Sunday when he met with the kogi state delegates in Lokoja said provision of job opportunity would help to tackle insecurity in the country.
He assured the people that his presidency will galvanise the solid minerals deposits endowed in the North Central Zone to be the main driver of the economy.
He asked delegates from Kogi state to cast their votes for him as a solidarity for one of their own in the presidential race for the first time since the return of democracy in 1999.
Saraki, a two term Governor of Kwara state, two term senator and Senate president maintained that he possessed the needed capacity and experience to wriggle the country out of its predicament.
He added that as former chairman, Governors forum, and president of the Senate in his second lap of his tenure, he has been tested and trusted to manage the affairs of the country, stressing that he left the office better than he met it.
The presidential frontliner assured the people of kogi that his entrance into the race is to solidify the existing mutual relationship that existed between kogi and kwara , adding that his preoccupation, if elected, is to work assiduously to strengthen interests and development of the North Central Zone.
He urged delegates whom he ascribed to be one of them, to vote enmass for him , so that they could be part of the history making as he would be the first from north Central zone to be democratically elected president of Nigeria.
He said, having spent some years in high echelon of governance with distinction, he is aware of the challenges facing the country, which made him more prepared among his competitors to preside over the affairs of the nation at this critical time of our nationhood.
According to him” There is a bond between kogi and Kwara. I’m a bridge between the North and the South, between Christians and Muslims. What our Country needs now is Unity and i have done excellently well on this in my previous national assignments” .
He decried the action of the present regime to obtain loans for consumption, hinting that , he vehemently opposed the establishment while he held sway in the Senate.
In their seperate remarks, former Governors, Ibrahim Idris, and Idris Wada, urged the delegates to cast their votes for Senator Saraki whom they acknowledge has the wherewithal to change ugly narratives of the nation.
