Olu Samuel, Lokoja

Former vice president and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Abubakar Atiku has assured the people of Kogi state that the completion of Ajaokuta steel company would a top priority project if elected at the February 25 presidential election.

He said his administration would also embarked if the construction of Maritime port in the state of elected

Atiku was Speaking on Saturday during his presidential campaign rally in Lokoja.

“As a business man and astute entrepreneur,I know the importance of iron and steel in the industrialisation process, that is why I will make it’s completion a top priority project in other to create jobs opportunity as well as improving our revenue base.

He, said that his administration would set aside 10 billion US Dollars to create jobs for the teeming youths who have been left unattended to in the present arrangements.

He also said that his administration would tackle head on the issue of University closure

According to him, “the issue of University closure which normally force our children out of schools for eight months will no longer be there”.

He mentioned that if voted as the next president of the country, salary arrears will be a thing of the past.

Earlier, his running mate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa called on the people of the state vot to enmass for the People’s Democratic Party stressing that the only way they can chase the All Progressive Congress from power is to vote them out come February election.

Okowa who is the governor of Delta State noted that the people of the have suffered enough for eight years as he called on the people of Kogi central to stand firm during election and vote out APC government from the state.

He noted that the people of the state should rally round all the PDP candidates in the coming election by voting for them and the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

He said that Atiku Abubakar is ready to rescued the country from poverty and move it forward. He stressed that eight years of APC in the country have taken the country back to stone age.

He commended the people of the state for their turn out to welcome the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his Vice presidential candidate Okowa.

The senatorial candidate of the party, Barr. Natasha Uduaghan while speaking said the people of Kogi state are ready to vote out APC bad governance from th state and vote in PDP.

She said the uncompleted Ajaoukta Iron and Steel complex is an issue that is given the people of the state a great concern adding that the only person that can complete the project is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar if by the grace of God if voted as the next president of the country.

The rally also saw the decamping of about 146,000 people from the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC to the PDP.

Among the decampees were the immediate past Deputy Governor,if the state, Elder Simon Achuba,former speaker of the state house of Assembly,Alfa Immam and strong man of Kogi politics, Alhaji Yahaya Karaku.