LAGOS – Mr Victor Adeniji, the Gubernatorial Candidate of the KOWA Party in Lagos State has pledged to provide one million jobs to youths in the state, if elected.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]
Adeniji made the promise in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday.
He said that development could only be attained through youth empowerment programmes.
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“The state development, we are taking as the people development. The people make the state not the state making the people, so, we are going to develop the people.
“Hitherto, the present government, they have been developing the face of Lagos without developing the lives of the people.
“So, our own interest is in the social welfare of the inhabitants of Lagos and that is why we are going to register one million youths in Lagos State.
“Fifty thousand in each local government and their primary responsibility is housing construction, agricultural farm settlement and environmental sanitation.
“And you will see a massive improvement in the lives of the people.”
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The candidate said that though the party lacked financial wherewithal when compared to their peers in terms of publicity, it was confident of winning the votes of the electorates.
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“We are not political investors, like our contemporaries who have been in government and so our strategy of campaign is within the community development associations.
“And then the landlord associations within the houses. So, we give them our hand bills, we do one on one campaign.
“They see us as social crusaders, they know us and because of the issues that pertain to Nigeria now, issue of corruption, issue of security, the people appreciate us.
“And they know that, the resources to match the parties in government poster for poster, jingle for jingle is not there for us.
“So, we are not bothered, we believe that we are in the heart of the people and we are reaching out to them.”
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Adeniji implored Nigerians to troop out en masse to collect their Permanent Voter Cards, which would entitle them to vote in the upcoming elections. (NAN)
