Atiku begins tour of flooded states Tuesday

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is set to commence a tour of all the flooded Nigerian states.

His media adviser, Paul Ibe, confirmed in a statement that the tour will start on Tuesday, October 25th, 2022.

Ibe disclosed that the former Vice President of Nigeria will visit Bayelsa State to kick-start the tour.

“The tours to states ravaged by flooding become incumbent because of the trauma that the incidents have caused its victims.

“Consequently, the tours will provide the presidential candidate with 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.”

According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), about 2.5 million persons have been displaced and over 603 persons killed by the flooding caused by torrential rainfall.

Places affected so far include Yobe, Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Edo, Delta, Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Benue, Ebonyi, Anambra, Bauchi, Gombe, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto, Imo, Abia States, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.