Delta State, with successes recorded in job creation and entrepreneurial programmes, has moved from a consumption state to a producing state. 
Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, speaking on a television programme, yesterday, said Governor Ifeanyi Okowa administration had succeeded in bringing back lost jobs, which had greatly enhanced living conditions of the people. 

“In Delta, our approach to job creation is not only about training youths in relevant skills, we also teach them and bring them up to speed with management of the businesses they may possibly engage in. 

“We also mentor them to ensure they are able to treat their customers well and save funds for possible expansion. We are quite happy that a number of persons we trained in Delta are now successful entrepreneurs. 

“Before now, a number of skilled workers we needed for tiling, POP and furniture-making, for example, became very scarce to the extent that they were coming from Niger Republic and Benin Republic. But today, we are now exporting skills because we have trained quite a number of persons in these different fields.”

Aniagwu, who is also spokesman for the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, said the Atiku-Okowa ticket would leverage on the successes recorded by Okowa in job creation to bring back lost jobs when the party takes over the reins of governance next year. 

He added: “Beyond the fact that Okowa is quite presidential, Atiku also acknowledged the fact that the governor has made considerable contributions to the development of the state and improvement of manpower. 

“The beauty of this is that Atiku has also made it very clear that  $10 billion will be set aside to enhance MSMEs in the country, which means that a number of the informal sector will be enhanced. 

“What Okowa has done in Delta becomes readily available to help bring back the jobs across the nation, because what we earnestly yearn for at the moment is the need for a number of youths to be gainfully employed,” 

Aniagwu further said the high rate of unemployment in the country was responsible for the high level of insecurity across the country.

“Atiku-Okowa believes that to be able to fight insecurity, corruption and to advance our country such that our economy will blossom once again, you will need to bring back the jobs. 

“One of the ways to do so is not just to employ people into the civil service, but to make individuals to become productive, which is the fastest way to move from consumption to productivity. 

“What we are doing in Delta is a ready example of what Atiku and Okowa will be bringing to bear at the federal level.”