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Hide, Skin Industry To Be Developed For Export
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Arable Land An Asset, As Security Tops Priority
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has assured under him crude oil discovered in Bauchi State will be used to develop the State, and not to be shared among the elite.
Obi also promised to develop and turn the hide and skin industry in Bauchi State into a production centre for export, if elected the President of Nigeria in the upcoming 2023 elections.
He made the pledge on Thursday at the LP presidential campaign rally in the state.
Obi said that taking back Nigeria entails that we change the country from consumption to production and to achieve that, the country must be well secured.
“We cannot achieve anything if the country is not secured and it would be the top priority of Datti and I to secure the land and return the people to the farms,” he said.
The former Anambra State governor told the crowd which attended the rally that his focus and that of his running mate, is to pull the people out of poverty, especially in the North, as he noted however that, to achieve that requires a secured land.
Pointing out that security will be their number one priority if elected into office, the frontrunner presidential hopeful explained that “Datti and I have the key to unlock the wealth of the North which is embedded in the vast arable land in the region.”
The VP candidate, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the National Chairman of the Party Bar Julius Abure and other leaders of the party underscored the candidate’s position about the Labour Party’s desire to pull people out of poverty, develop education and health infrastructures and create job for the vibrant youths.
Earlier before the rally, on arrival in Bauchi, Obi and his team comprising the running mate, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed and National Chairman of the Labour Party, Bar Julius Abure paid a courtesy call on the Emir of Bauchi, Rilwanu Adamu, in his palace.
Obi had told him that he and his Vice are in the race because they feel they have the key to help Nigeria youths take back their country and rebuild it.
