...APC candidate assures of economic transformation

All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Tuesday assured Nigerians and stakeholders of the party from South-South region that he would lead Nigeria to build back better and stronger even in difficult time if elected next President.

Tinubu made this declaration in Calabar at a TownHall meeting with party stakeholders on national transformation and industrialisation at the Cultural Centre, Calabar.

Drawing parallel from the experience of the United States during its civil war, Tinubu charged Nigerians and party members to focus on what the country can accomplish.

He said: "We can build in the middle of difficulty, the US was fighting the civil war and still building rail track. We should focus on the things that we can accomplish. We have a lot - there is the waterfront here, we have minerals here, we have arable land, we must conquer hunger, we cannot allow hunger conquer us."

Speaking further at the well-attended event that had the Vice-Presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, Governor Ben Ayade, Director-General of the campaign council and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, Deputy Director-General and former APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, Senator Victor Idoma Egba, former Governor Godswill Akpabio, former Petroleum Minister Don Etiebet, Minister of State Power, Jeddy Agba, and Minister of State Labour, Festus Keyamo, Tinubu pointed out that for the nation to experience economic recovery, less focus should be placed on crude oil while harnessing other areas.

Others at the event were former EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, Chairman of TeTFUND, former Speaker of House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, APC National Woman Leader, Beta Edu and other party chieftains.

The APC candidate promised to work towards industrialisation while also focusing on the production of goods and services across the country.

“My campaign is built on the firm conviction that our greatest good and best deeds still lie in front of us and not in our past.

“The industrialisation of our economy represents a most vital step towards achieving the Nigeria of our dreams.

“From its very beginnings, our nation’s economy was established on an incomplete foundation. It was built to rely too heavily on oil exports. This means we have always experienced a large gap in the national economic structure. Greater industrialisation shall fill this gap through the production of more and better goods which improve our standard of living while creating better jobs, providing workers with a living wage and establishing businesses that will drive this economy for generations to come.

“Because of this gap in our economic structure and the resultant lack of economic activity, Nigeria has experienced unacceptably high rates of unemployment for several decades. The problems this causes for our society are not limited to simply slowing our economic progress. This gap has affected our nation in profound ways, straining the social fabric in ways that no nation wishes for. Now is the time to repair these fissures our country should never have had to experience,” Tinubu said.

“Our industrial policy will prioritise strategic industries vital to the development of our national economy. We will grow the nation’s industrial base to provide decent jobs and improving wages to our nation’s ever increasing urban population.”

Speaking on how they can better achieve this, Tinubu said primary and secondary industrial hubs would be created across each geopolitical zone in the country.

He also promised to bring Cross River into the industrialisation plan through the state’s resources.

“Our industrial plan encourages manufacturing on a massive scale across the country. Nigeria will become known as a nation that produces high quality goods worthy of export to anywhere in the world. We shall use an array of policy measures. On the fiscal side, we shall employ tax credits and holidays, youth employment incentives, import relief, export credits and well-tailored subsidies where necessary.

“Cross River State will play a leading role in our economic uplift. This state is blessed with limestone, clay, salt, tin, granite, basalt, quartzite, and kaolin deposits in commercial quantities.

“Our policies will afford local artisans and craftsmen throughout the region the necessary tools to provide for their families and, ultimately, boost overall economic activity for the national good. I enjoyed the stimulating cultural entertainment the performers displayed. This is a town hall meeting of great minds, brains and visions. My concern is the development of Nigeria, this is a talented nation and moving this country forward is a task that must be done. Let’s put together and conquer hunger by using the God’s great space on agriculture."

A major highlight of the TownHall was when the APC candidate brought Senator John Owen Enoh and Barrister Ekpere Mary and reunited them with Governor Ayade and others.

He described Cross Rivers as a land of joy and love.

“Cross River is blessed in Agriculture. Oil palm, rubber, cocoa, cashews, cassava, yam, rice, plantain, and bananas are abundant and already being processed, strengthening the agro-allied value chain in ways that create better jobs and raise the standard of living,” he added.

He also praised Governor Ayade for already starting the industrialisation drive in the state.

“The Ayade-led administration has done tremendous work to develop the processing capacity within the state with the construction of the Ogoja Rice Mill, Ikom Cocoa Mill, Rice Seed and seedling centre.

“The Governor has also gone further to develop the infrastructure for the movement of goods by land with the proposed Super-Highway, by sea with the proposed Bakassi Deep Seaport, and by air with the construction of the Obudu Cargo Airport."

In his own address at the event, Governor Ayade said the focus of the next administration should be on human beings first and Gross Domestic Product as a measure of economic growth should shift to Human Happiness Index, adding that government must focus on industrialisation to create jobs for the masses.

"We must move from GDP to the Human Happiness Index. When God has empowered you, it is for the people," said Ayade

The Director-General of APC Presidential Campaign Council, Governor Lalong assured the people that Asiwaju Tinubu has capacity to provide the leadership that will create prosperity for all Nigerians.

"Asiwaju turned mammy water in Lagos ocean to Money Water through his brains," he added.

Tinubu Media Office
Tunde Rahman
December 20, 2022

https://lagostoday.com.ng/we-can-build-in-difficult-time-tinubu-tells-south-south-apc-stakeholders/

How can a party that has bastardized the economy, allowed insecurity to fester uncontrollably, kept students at home for more than half a year get votes from the same people who have been denied their right to education? The same group of Nigerians, who have no jobs, people who are pauperised, how can they vote for the APC?

How can the youths, whose parents and relatives, have been killed by terrorists and bandits, who have been displaced, give their votes again to failed promises? This must be a case of Stockholm syndrome but it must not happen.

The one he did not build with Buhari after almost 8 years in power even when dollar was 150 and bag of rice was 8k.

If Tinubu did not see anything wrong in Buhari's administration for 8 years, what makes anyone think he will be any different from Buhari?

He is well articulated and intentional about governance

Ok

JAGABAN OF AFRICA.

From Leadership and Experience perspective,
He stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Mintyguy:
He is well articulated and intentional about governance

You can say thatCollection.....

ghiloman28:
Non of the presidential aspirant is prepared as ASIWAJU. Just Dey play

again MintMiIt is always good and refreshing to see we still have reasonable and sensible members like you on this forum.
God bless you.

Through heroine pushing right ? This drug Barron thinks we are into drug business like he and his peeps...
Useless dementia having bastard.. .After sniffing cocaine this idiot will just open his mouthwaaa and be capping bs.

Ask this idiot what he has ever done for us in the Niger Delta now he will begin saying balubalabuluba .

This BASTARD made all the international oil companies move their headquarters to Lagos. He made dangote move the refinery that was to give us 12000 jobs to Lagos yet they pipe our oil to the southwest to refine in it .

All the top positions in all the oil companies are filled with his tribe people they leave only driver and security man positions for us from the Niger Delta ..

This man is a demon ... A servant of Satan and a deceiver ...

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Yes o! We Can Build a Townhall Different from Balablu Bulaba.
But Why you no build with Buhari these past 8years?

Damnnn niggar
Make tinubu rest

Abeg gettat!

Believe Tinubu/APC at your own risk

It's getting complicated.

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The same way you're building Lagos into your pocket

Thief

BAT the thinker and a doer. Make una just Dey play

TINUBU is the next president of Nigeria.

Jagaban

This man is ready. Always in the news for good reasons.

Is he the only one?
Were others sleeping?
Don't they have something to campaign with?
Don't they have a plan?
Is their strategy just to pick any negativity about the obvious winner?
Are they conceding to defeat before the D day?
Are they planning on rigging?

So many questions on my head.

You just have to give it to the Jagaban of the universe. He's prepared. He has plans and executing it to the later.

This man really needs to be studied in Nigerian Universities.

A master planner, an achiever, success oriented, forward thinker, bridge builder, real unifier and most importantly, an institution builder.

Please let make him the president of this great country. Together we can write the name of the country in gold.

Asiwaju lokan se.

I hope he fires emefiele first in other to start building process.

I like the courage

I am seriously afraid TINUBU will win the election but my vote goes to Obi .

I am afraid because this Bullion van man have his tentacles spread across every nooks and crannies of the country .

Another fear too is that the south east will jeopardise OBI chances because of their dilapidated brains when it comes to answering to requests by some of their idols to always stay at home and this can play out during the election.

Always thinking through their anus

post=119304661:
JAGABAN OF AFRICA.

From Leadership and Experience perspective,
He stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Yeah even in drug business and bullion van movement

Kindly provide houses for these boys pursuing cars up and down in lagos roads for money, help them.

Build houses for them, give them proper jobs....

This people are living in abject poverty, they're sleeping in buses and under bridge and yet they idolize you and mc olumo.

Do these for them first. Then you can think of doing it all over Nigerian.

Emi Pablo
APC ain't going nowhere

This guy they use empty statements without proper laid down statistics of how he will achieve any of them. Shine your eyes Nigerians.

Political promises like these cannot be accounted for, it is not written and stamped anywhere, just like Verbal contracts that rely on Memory for accountability, once the idiot leaves there, he has forgotten.

But no!!
These Nigerians are the illiterates

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

PrinceOfLagos:

Yeah even in drug business and bullion van movement

Collectii.....

Jagaban of the universe

post=119304770:
GOD BLESS NIGERIA

God shame looters and their supporters

Non of the presidential aspirant is prepared as ASIWAJU. Just Dey play

mrdharkchild:
This guy they use empty statements without proper laid down statistics of how he will achieve any of them. Shine your eyes Nigerians.

Political promises like these cannot be accounted for, it is not written and stamped anywhere, just like Verbal contracts that rely on Memory for accountability, once the idiot leaves there, he has forgotten.

But no!!
These Nigerians are the illiterates

Talking to the real issues

Not what people wants to hear.