Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and a former Vice President of Nigeria, will begin a visit of states with high flooding events across all geopolitical zones in Nigeria on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. This tour will begin at 9:00 a.m. local time.
A few days ago, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party (LP) as well as the former governor of Anambra State, called on all of the presidential contenders to suspend their campaigns in order to express their sympathies to the victims of the recent flooding.
Waziri Adamawa revealed on Saturday, through the medium of his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, that he will begin the tour in the state of Bayelsa.
He stated;
The tours to states ravaged by flooding become incumbent in view of the trauma that the incidents have caused its victims.
Consequently, the tours will provide the presidential candidate the opportunity to have an on-sight impact assessment of these flooding incidents and give him a veritable window to input those ecological concerns in his policy documents.
Recall that the PDP presidential candidate had supported flood victims in Jigawa, Yobe and Kano long before now. He was also the first candidate to speak on the issue and had counselled that persons living around the most vulnerable areas be temporarily evacuated following the alert by the meteorological agency that a further 24 states faced the risk of major flooding.