2019: My ambition is to unite Nigeria ― Saraki

SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, has said that his main reason for seeking president seat in 2019 is to unite all ethnic groups in the country.

Saraki who was in Enugu on Thursday to inform Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful of his presidential ambition said he would set the unity of the nation on the path of sustainable economic growth.

The state indigenes and PDP members defiled the downpour to welcome the Senate President right from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu down to the PDP secretariat in GRA, Enugu.

Saraki said that Nigeria needed a President that would unite the country, adding that it takes a politician who knows the problems of the masses to bring solution and unity to the people. He said that Nigerians are currently facing difficult time with number of unemployed rising daily and most families cannot feed well.

“I am here to tell you that we have a project. The country is not as it were three years ago. We are all concerned about the insecurity in the land, the unemployment, lack of job and hunger in the country.

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“Many youths today, do not have any job and the future is not okay for them and we do not have time to continue to wait and things continue to deteriorate,’’ he said.

According to him, for me and us in the National Assembly is not for personal ambition, we have continued to fight for the right of the people, for justice and freedom in this democracy.

“For people to be able to exercise and express their views and opinions without any form of intimidation or oppression.

“We have gone through a lot, I and your son, Ike Ekeremadu, since we have decided to fight for what is right,’’ he said.

Saraki urged the people of Enugu State and the South-East to stand by him as he plans to change the leadership of the executive; adding that Nigerians needed a President they can be proud of.

“A president that understand the issues facing Nigerians, a president that will unite the whole country, that will create job and identify with the youths in their aspirations.

“Without unity and working together we cannot build a progressive nation,’’ he said.

The Senate President said that he would create conducive environment for innovation and businesses to strive in the country especially among enterprising youths within the South-East.
“A leader that will bring the public and private sectors together to create jobs, put food in homes of many families as well as increase wealthy in the land,’’ he added.

Earlier, the Enugu State PDP Chairman, Chief Augustine Nnamani, assured Saraki that Enugu State was his second state; adding that he should feel free to be with his people.

Nnamani noted that the party was looking for vibrant, knowledgeable and vast politicians and technocrat like Saraki to shape things in the country.

“Due to the importance we attach to your person and ambition, we all the PDP delegates, party chairmen in the zones, council areas as well as other party executives had defiled the rain to welcome and receive your great message of hope for our dear country,’’ he said.