Presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd), will tomorrow storm the commercial city of Onitsha for a town hall meeting with the Organized Private Sector in the South-East tomorrow.
The meeting which is being convened by the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Anambra State, is aimed at addressing some critical policy issues bordering on business and industry in the Southeast and its strategic importance to Nigeria.
While disclosing this yesterday to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital the chairman, Presidential Campaign Council for Anambra State, Barrister Chima Okafor, said that the event was to showcase Buhari’s policy thrust on industrial sector where the Igbo race predominates.
“For the purpose of educating our people from the five Southeast states on the economic agenda of General Muhamadu Buhari, we have planned this event in the commercial town of Onitsha in order to ensure that our candidate bares his mind on how he intends to restore the manufacturing capacity and the industrial glory of the Southeast region of Nigeria.
“We want the businessmen and industrialists who have been bearing the brunt of poor infrastructure, insecurity, poor micro and macro economic policies and the rapid drop in the value of the Naira as against the Dollar to come and engage General Buhari and see how his policies will transform the Southeast region into the tiger of Africa. We have reached out to the captains of industry because as creators of economic value, they are essential in the change promise of the APC,” he stated.
Also speaking on the meeting, the Director of Media and Publicity for the APC, Presidential Campaign Council , Anambra State, Rt. Hon Afam Obi, said, “At this point in time when power supply has become an issue, where industries run on diesel 24 hours everyday and are either operating on low profits or have closed shop, sending hundreds of thousands into unemployment and despondency, where our infrastructure is poor and cannot meet the 21st century needs of industrialization in our clime, there is therefore the need for the incoming government and the organized private sector here to rub minds on how best both can support each other for the betterment of the ordinary Nigerian.
“General Buhari understands this and is quite worried that most of our industries are presently lying comatose, while our business activities are hampered due to the depreciating value of the Naira, which has made necessary this town hall meeting.”
