Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has promised to give 40% of appointments in his cabinet to youths, if he became president in 2019.
Mr. Atiku made the promise on Saturday at the inauguration of the national and state executives of a pro Atiku group, Intellectual Think-Tank for Atiku (ITTA) in Abuja.
Represented at the inauguration by the Chairman of All Atiku Support Group (AASUG) Oladimeji Fabiyi, the former president 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”.
Mr Atiku is seeking to contest the 2019 presidential election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. His wife, Titi Abubakar, who was also represented at the occasion by by Sen. Grace Bent, said her husband deserved to be the People Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2019 presidential election.
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