The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that every negative thing now happens in the Nigeria of today, Saying ,history now beckoned on Nigerians to tackle the negative developments.
The former Vice President stated this at the ongoing 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association in Lagos, themed “BOLD Transitions” scheduled to hold between August 19 to 26, 2022.
Atiku said since 1999, Nigeria had never experienced this level of poverty, insecurity and unemployment.Saying,” today, we have had all the negative indices. Today, we are all disunited in the nation. We have never experienced this level of poverty. We have never experienced this state of insecurity. We have never experienced this level of unemployment. We have recognised all these negative development in our history. ”
While assuring Nigerians solutions to the challenges, Atiku said ” I used the opportunity of the first plenary session of the 62nd NBA conference to give Nigerian lawyers an insight into my bold policy framework that embodies Unity, Security, Economy, Education and Devolution of power to states and local governments
known by the acronym of Unity-SEED. I stressed how interconnected these five policy prescriptions are. I assured them that a new Nigeria of our dreams is possible in the hands of a bold man of experience. -AA”
The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi and the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, represented Bola Tinubu at the annual conference.