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Atiku and the challenge of job creation

Published by Tribune on Tue, 30 Sep 2014


The political fireworks are blazing so visibly that any keen watcher will observe that the contest this time around is going to enrich the democratic process in a way that has not been witnessed before. This scenario is due to the changing political landscape and calibre of personalities that are getting involved in the political process come 2015. One of these political gladiators, is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the All Progressives Congress (APC).Recently, friends and political associates of the former vice president expressed public support to his aspiration to run the affairs of the country as president. They hinged their support on the grounds that Atiku Abubakar has experience in business and governance, and therefore has the capacity and competence to address the unemployment, economic, political, and social and security challenges facing the country.Although, Atiku is a well-established entrepreneur and business mogul who in his native Adamawa State rates as the second highest employer of labour after the State government, a cursory look at the policy document of Atiku's presidential campaign shows that his team prides their principal as a man with the magic wand when it comes to the unemployment crisis the national youths and able-bodied citizens are facing.The document is a compendium of new and workable solutions towards employment generation and economic prosperity, the type that no politician had articulated before. Atiku promises to ensure a wide-ranging infrastructure and energy sector overhaul: This is needed, according to him, in order to deepen investments in the sector and thus foster job creation.In the light of present economic realities and new awareness, it is a foregone conclusion that the president Nigeria needs in 2015 is not the type that will mount mantras, reel out litany of agenda and political slogans without providing feasible and plausible solutions to biting economic and security crises in the country.Atiku knows the problems confronting the country in the area of power and has realised too that in 1999, when he was first elected as vice president. That is why he has a comprehensive power sector reforms plan to create capacity for improved power generations needed to stimulate industrialisation which in turn will lead to massive employment.One of his strategies of reviving the economy is through the identification of priority areas of the Nigerian economy and adapting existing employment and job creation policies to suit such areas.He hopes to incentivise private sector players to increase their capacity for employment generation and apprenticeship schemes. This he intends doing by providing various forms of suasion such as tax breaks, waivers on levies etc in order to stimulate job creation.The former vice president intends to create an enabling environment for attracting foreign investment and deepening local content participation in contract awards, procurement and construction, should he be elected president in 2005.The Nigerian people are waiting to see how all these will play out as the campaigns proceed.Eme from Aba, Abia State.
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