The Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the office of the Vice President
under an APC will not be a “spare tyre” .
A statement issued by the APC Presidential Campaign
organisation signed by the media director, Garba Shehu, quoted Mr. Osinbajo as
saying this at a parley with health care professionals under the auspices of
the Health Care Federation of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.Mr. Osinbajo said that the party had made adequate plans to
ensure that the National Economic Council, which is under the office of the
Vice President, was made a vibrant body in line with the provisions of the
constitution.
The statement also quoted Mr. Osinbajo as saying that an APC
government would partner with the private sector for effective healthcare
delivery. He said the party would also ensure the lowering of the cost of funds
to provide easy access to capital, to address the crisis in the power sector
and expend a minimum of one billion dollars on health insurance.The APC Vice Presidential candidate said that corruption
would be tackled head-on as a first step to tackling the nation’s myriad of
problems.“We have to deal with corruption very seriously,” he said.He said that the party’s free education policy which would
in the first instance be available at primary and secondary school levels, and
later extended to tertiary levels but limited to science, technology,
engineering, maths and education.
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