Former
Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has pledged to give 40 per cent of
appointments in his cabinet to youths, if he wins the 2019 presidential
election.
Atiku made the pledge yesterday at the inauguration of
the national and state executives of a pro Atiku group, Intellectual
Think-Tank for Atiku (ITTA) in Abuja.
The former Vice President,
who was represented at the inauguration by the Chairman of All Atiku
Support Group (AASUG) Mr Oladimeji Fabiyi, said: “Having identified the
critical role of youths in the emergence of any leader, I pledge to give
youths 40 per cent of appointments in my cabinet if elected as the
president of Nigeria in 2019.
“As a youth friendly leader who
thinks and understands the feelings of youth, I urge them to give me the
chance to make their dreams possible”.
His wide, Mrs. Titi
Abubakar, represented by Sen. Grace Bent, said that her husband deserved
to be the People Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2019
presidential election.
She said Atiku was the right man with the political stamina to wrestle and return power back to PDP and Nigerians.
In his acceptance, the National Coordinator, ITTA, Mr Theophilus Ohuoba, said that group would get down to work immediately.
Ohuoba
said that the zonal and state coordinators of the group would go back
to their various bases to inaugurate their executives.
He said they would move to the grassroots to mobilise delegates and voters to support Atiku’s candidacy.