Shekarau/Atiku Support Group

PDP 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN TIMETABLE .

*South-South Zone*

✅ Oct 10 - Akwa Ibom
✅ Nov 24 - Edo
✅ Dec 3 - Bayelsa
✅ Jan 16 - Rivers
✅ Jan 17 - Cross River
✅ Jan 25 - Delta

*North-Central Zone*

✅ Oct 19 - Niger
✅ Nov 8 - Kogi
✅ Nov 14 - Kwara
✅ Dec 8 - Nasarawa
✅ Dec 12 - Plateau
✅ Dec 13 - Benue
✅ ABUJA- Occasions

*North-West Zone*

✅ Oct 12 - Kebbi
✅ Oct 13 - Zamfara
✅ Oct 17 - Kaduna
✅ Oct 18 - Sokoto
✅ Nov 5 - Katsina
✅ Nov 19 - Jigawa
✅ Nov 20 - Kano

*North-East Zone*

✅ Nov 9 - Borno
✅ Nov 10 - Gombe
✅ Nov 29 - Yobe
✅ Nov 30 - Bauchi
✅ Feb 1- Taraba
✅ Feb 2 - Adamawa.

*South-West Zone*

✅ Nov 1 - Ekiti
✅ Nov 2 - Ondo
✅ Nov 16 - Ogun
✅ Nov 17 - Lagos
✅ Dec 5 - Oyo
✅ Dec 6 - Osun

*South-East Zone*

✅ Oct 21 - Ebonyi
✅ Oct 22 - Enugu
✅ Nov 23 - Imo
✅ Dec 2 - Abia
✅ Dec 15 - Anambra

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ATIKU/OKOWA 2023.

Press Statement

World Teachers’ Day

Dear Fellow Nigerians,

Today, October 5, 2022, is United Nations’ World Teachers’ Day. With the theme, *Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers*, it is a day that celebrates teachers all over the World.

I wish to observe this all-important day by identifying with Nigerian teachers. I wish to identify with them in their moment of grief occasioned by poor working conditions over the years. Specifically, I use this medium to console Nigerian university lecturers whose genuine requests have met with deaf ears, and who have now stayed for over seven months without salary.

Teachers are the backbone of a nation. They are the bedrock on which national development rests. Indeed, many educators have opined that, *no nation can rise higher than the quality of its education system, and no education system can rise higher than the quality of its teachers*. This means that no nation can make any meaningful progress in any sector without having well-trained, experienced, happy and well-remunerated teachers. A situation where some states are owing teachers’ salaries of up to five months, or even more, is unacceptable.

When we come into power in 2023, by the special grace of the Almighty God, I promise to commit myself head-on to the plight of teachers. We shall collaborate with state governments to address teachers’ poor working conditions, which include the biting maladies of payment of salaries and teachers’ training and retraining. Beyond May 2023, strikes by university lecturers in particular, and industrial actions by other movers of other sectors of national development in general, would be a thing of the past.

Without meaning to blow my trumpet, I recall, I single-handedly sponsored and organized a three-day education summit in 2001 in Kaduna. Chaired by distinguished Professor of Education, Adamu Baikie, the summit had identified numerous problems faced by the education industry then, and had posed solutions that were adopted by many state governments, with positive results.

We did it before; we can do it again.

Long live Nigerian teachers; long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

*Atiku Abubakar, GCON*
*Wazirin Adamawa*
*Presidential Candidate, PDP*
(October 5, 2022)