{"id":57311,"date":"2018-11-01T00:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T23:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=57311"},"modified":"2018-11-01T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T23:04:11","slug":"2019-presidency-pdp-reveals-atikus-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=57311","title":{"rendered":"2019 presidency: PDP reveals Atiku’s focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has listed areas of focus for its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n

According to the main opposition party, its campaign for the 2019 presidential election will be focused on issues and solutions that have direct bearing on the welfare of the citizens.<\/p>\n

The PDP said this through its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, while addressing newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThe PDP and our Presidential candidate will focus on ensuring security.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will focus on how to increase the purchasing power of Nigerians, as well as revamp our economy through strategic intervention in critical sectors, especially power, food security, road and railway infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will also focus on education, energy, health, water provision, and labour issues, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PDP will proffer direction to reduce cost of governance and release funds for development purposes; cut harsh tariff and tax regimes and eradicate corruption,\u201d Ologbondiyan said.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s mouthpiece further stated that the campaign would be strategically centralised and streamlined to ensure effectiveness and responsibility \u201cin our messages\u2019 content, dissemination and general engagement with Nigerians at all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has listed areas of focus for its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. According to the main opposition party, its campaign for the 2019 presidential election will be focused on issues and solutions that have direct bearing on the welfare of the citizens. The PDP said this through its National Publicity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4149,1048,58],"class_list":["post-57311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2019-election","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}