Atiku Abubakar, the presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says job creation is what he
does best.
The 71-year-old former
vice-president said this ahead of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
release of labour statistics, expected Thursday, October 18 and Monday,
November 6, 2018.
“The most effective way to fight
crime is to provide opportunity to create wealth, because poverty is conducive
to crime,” Atiku said on Thursday.
“If you elect me as your
President, I will equip the security forces to fight terrorism and crime.
Additionally, I will do what I do best – job creation.”
The most effective way to fight crime is to provide opportunity to create wealth, because poverty is conducive to crime. If you elect me as your President, I will equip the security forces to fight terrorism and crime. Additionally, I will do what I do best - job creation.— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) October 18, 2018
Nigeria’s job creation report for
Q1 and Q2 2018 was initially billed to be released on October 10, while labour
force statistics for Q4 2017 and Q1 2018 is expected on October 18, according
to the NBS data release calendar.
Both reports have not been made
publicly available.
However, the data office is set
to release the unemployment and underemployment report for the last quarter of
2017 and the first quarter of 2018 by Monday, November 6.
Previous reports show that nearly
eight million Nigerians have become unemployed since President Muhammadu Buhari
took office in 2015.
JOBS AS CAMPAIGN TOOL
The Buhari administration says it
has created over seven million jobs since 2015, and plans to create more using
the provisions of the economic growth and recovery plan (ERGP).
Speaking in London, earlier in
2018, Babatunde Fashola, minister of power works and housing, said Buhari has
created jobs for 6.3 million new rice farmers via the agricultural drive.
Fashola also said the ministry of
power, works and housing has created 193,469 jobs, with 40,429 direct and
153,040 indirect jobs, within the two years.
Audu Ogbeh, minister of
agriculture, had said in January, 2018 that the Buhari admin has created six
million jobs in the agricultural sector alone since it came on board in 2015.
The last NBS report shows that
the number of people within the labor force who are unemployed or underemployed
increased from 13.6 million and 17.7 million respectively in Q2 2017, to 15.9
million and 18.0 million in Q3 2017.
President Buhari and former
vice-president Atiku are running on the promise to create jobs if voted in to
lead Nigeria in 2019.
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