***As Atiku promises to Reconstruct Federal Roads in Kogi, Complete Seaport
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday gained immensely from harvest of defectors from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during its presidential Campaign rally in Lokoja
This was just as a Former vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar pledged to construct, reconstruct, and rehabilitate all federal roads in Kogi state to ease commercial activities for the nation.
At the the presidential campaign rally prominent members of the APC decamped in droves to the PDP.
A former deputy governor of the state, Elder Simon Achuba, ex-Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Umar Ahmed Alfa and Hon. Yahaya Karaku all dumped the APC alongside their supporters to PDP.
The national chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, who received the defectors, urged the party members to receive them back into the party without discrimination for a resounding victory at the polls.
The former Deputy Governor, who spoke on behalf of the defectors, said they decided to come back to the party because the APC failed to fulfil its promises in the state since 2016 to date.
Continuing, Atiku promised that, if elected, he will support the state to pay salaries, and set aside $10 billion for job creation, to tackle incessant strikes in the nation’s Universities.
Speaking further, he described the party as a light over the ruling APC and expressed dissatisfaction with the dwindling standard of living, acute poverty, and gross insecurity across the country.
“Give us your support, the nightmare that was the challenge of the iron and steel company, Ajaokuta in Kogi State will be a thing of the past,” he said.
In a remark, former Governor of Kogi, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris described the hardship facing Kogi people under the APC administration as unprecedented in the annals of the state and assured that the PDP would win overwhelmingly in the coming general elections.
Another ex-Governor of the state, Captain Idris Wada said “Nigeria is a delicate and dangerous country. We need to elect competent, resourceful and intellectual person to make things work and carry us out of the present trouble the nation found itself. That person is the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who has seen it all.”