Fulfilling Electoral Promises Movement Source
Manifesto document
Campaign Event
POLITICAL PARTY: PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) 2011
Description
- Job Creation: Promising to aggressively tackle youth unemployment by creating 1.5 million jobs over the initial two-year period.
- Industrialization & Agriculture: Focusing on diversifying the economy away from heavy oil dependence, revitalizing the Ajaokuta Steel complex, and boosting sustainable agricultural development across Nigeria's 36 states. [1]
Evidence (1)
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• Youth Employment (The Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria - YouWiN!): To tackle unemployment, he launched the YouWiN! program, a competitive business plan program that provided seed funding and training to thousands of young Nigerian entrepreneurs. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] While critics point to ongoing infrastructure gaps and corruption challenges by the end of his tenure, records from the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs highlight these structural reforms and localized projects as evidence of his 2011 campaign delivery. [1, 2, 3] • Agriculture (The e-Wallet System): He promised to diversify the economy and boost food production. His administration executed an innovative, corruption-free, e-wallet system that directly delivered subsidized fertilizers and seeds to millions of rural farmers, significantly boosting dry-season farming and local rice production.
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