The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said that his government
would be willing to investigate the military hierarchy as a way of tackling the
Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East, if elected.
Abubakar said this at a town hall
meeting tagged: ‘’The Candidates”, organised by the MacArthur Foundation in
collaboration with NTA and DARIA media on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said that his government would
not hesitate to deal with any senior officer who failed in his duty after being
adequately funded by his government.
“We cannot continue to accept
that kind of situation whereby commanders lose lives, lose equipment to
terrorists and then nothing happens to them,’’ he said.
The PDP presidential also said
that he would be willing to investigate the report of Amnesty International
indicting the military on allegations of genocide.
He stressed the need for
government to invest more in education and health sectors as well as to bring
in more private investors to compliment government’s programmes in the health
sector.
He said that if re-elected he
would resend a bill to the National Assembly to prosecute any government at any
level that mismanaged education funds.
Asked if he would accept the
outcome of the forthcoming presidential election if he lost, Abubakar said “why
not, if the election is credible?”
On the issue of farmers and
herdsmen clashes, Abubakar said there was need to enlighten the herders on
feeding lots.
“There is need for extensive
public sensitisation of these herders to adopt this solution to minimize this
crisis,’’ adding that this would not only reduce the crises, as it would also
increase their income.
On the allegation that he paid
less tax, Abubakar said what he paid was his personal income tax, while his
companies paid their taxes also to government.
He added that there may be
mistake in the privatisation done under his eight years when he was vice
president “but the programme was a success.’’
His Running Mate, Mr Peter Obi,
said that the PDP government invested heavily in the power sector but that APC
government had not invested anything in the sector.
“If you say that the PDP spent
$16 billion and there is no power, it is not true,” Obi said.
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