How can Atiku whose time in govt saw ‘unprecedented levels of industrial obituaries’ create 10m jobs? – Oshiomhole

National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday mocked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over his promise to create three million jobs per year.

The APC chairman, who said the statement will form part of the things his party will use against Atiku in their electioneering campaigns, wondered why the PDP presidential candidate, failed to create such jobs when he was Vice President between 1999 and 2007.

The APC chairman stated this when he spoke to newsmen at the end of his party National Working Committee (NWC) meeting in Abuja on Monday.

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“If you (Atiku) say you are going to create ten million jobs you have to tell us why when you were in government, you could not do that.

“By the time that government was out, we had lost Michelin, Dunlop closed down, the entire textile industry closed down.

“We were witnesses to the unprecedented levels of industrial obituaries. Factories were closing one after the other just at the time the then PDP government promised to create more jobs.

“These are issues we really want to engage. It will be every interesting to play back what people are saying”, Oshiomhole said.

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