Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised to eradicate poverty and in-security in the country if elected as President next year.
The APC presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu stated this during a town hall meeting with mining and agro-processing stakeholders in lafia, the Nasarawa state capital.He promised the resuscitation of the nation’s economy through the development of the solid mineral sector, stating that the nation was richly blessed and can cater for itself.
He appreciated Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule for giving him the opportunity to share his vision. “ We, the APC, shall continue to stand before the Nigerian people to discuss the real issues of the day and offer insight into the policy solutions we intend to deploy to solve them. In this, we remain the best and only hope for progressive good governance in Nigeria.
He also added that the sector would contribute more to the nation’s economy by building the GDP.
“We seek to turn the economy into a more active engine of growth, productivity, jobs and income. We seek to establish a broad-based economy that ensures broadly-shared prosperity for all.
“ Tinibu added that, Solid minerals and mining will play key roles in our campaign toward prosperity and our economic offensive against poverty and underdevelopment.
“ The solid minerals sector contributed less than 1% to our GDP in 2020. We need to increase this amount every year. My administration will develop the solid minerals sector, establishing policies that will encourage investment for growth in that sector.
He also said his administration would enact legislative reforms and forge strategic partnerships with private sector investors with requisite skills and proven capacity to support investment in the mining sector.
My agricultural policy encompasses the creation of storage facilities, affordable farm loans and mortgages, creation of modern agricultural hubs in each geopolitical zone amid other measures.
Earlier,the National Chairman of the party Senator Abdullahi Adamu said APC as a leading party in the nation assured that would sustained the legacies of present administration of providing infrastructures, qualify education,youth empowerments,job creation among others in the country.
Senator Abdullahi Adamu told Tinibu to get ready to lead Nigeria to the Promised Land. and re-echoed the position of President Muhammadu Buhari that all indicators and indications point to the fact that the APC Presidential candidate is the next President of Nigeria.
On mining opportunities in Nasarawa State, Adamu said his state is endowed.
On mining sector, every local government in Nasarawa State has a solid mineral deposit. I can say this with authority as former Governor of this state and Chairman of Senate Committee on Solid Minerals. I don’t want to say Nasarawa has potentials but I will say the huge opportunities are here.
We are tired of potentials in this country, we want to see the real things. Nigerians need to see the Action Plan of our candidate and they will see in details what Tinubu and our party want to do. We are convinced our tomorrow will be better than our today.
In his address, Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule said Tinubu's engagement with the mining community would also afford the opportunity to know the economic potentials of State in mining and agricultural.
The Governor listed twenty solid minerals in commercial quantity in the state which include lead, gold, Barite, mable, and zinc among others.He thank Asiwaju Tinubu for visiting nasarawa and the people have always wanted to see you to ask you questions and you are here to answer their questions.
The Director General of the tinubu campaign organisation and Governor of Plateau State Mr. Simon Bako Lalong described the Lafia Town Hall meeting as another worthy engagement between APC Presidential candidate and critical stakeholders in Nasarawa State after similar events in Kano, Lagos and Niger States.
He said Nasarawa is the home of huge solid mineral deposits that have remained untapped with attendant insecurity caused by illegal miners promising, Tinubu as next President of Nigeria would squarely address during his tenure
COV/Aliyu Muraki/Lafia.