Dr. Elishama Rosemary Ideh has become the second woman to officially join the race for president of the country in the 2019 general election.
Ideh formally declared her intention to run for presidency while speaking to her crowd of supporters recently in Abuja.
Ideh vowed to work towards reducing the cost and simplifying the processes and procedures of doing business anywhere in Nigeria so that local and foreign investors can thrive.
She promised to secure the present welfare and future security of Nigerians living today and generations yet unborn.
According to Sahara Reporters, Ideh said,
“As President, I will reform the country’s revenue generation and allocation structure, including our federal tax regimes,” she said.
“We will strive to strike a balance between making sure that nobody evades their financial obligations for the amenities government provides and ensuring that our tax regime allow business to take root.
“My administration is determined, from the very first day of our assumption of office, to work towards reducing the cost and simplifying the processes and procedures of doing business anywhere in Nigeria, so that local and foreign investors to thrive.”
She added that if voted in as President, she would ensure fair remuneration for workers in terms of wages, welfare packages and retirement benefits within the limits of our means.
“Periodic wage increase will be carried out, not on sentiments, emotional or even humanitarian grounds, but always according to the production capacity and corresponding revenues,” she said.
“I am a firm believer of the values, vision and mission of this great party, and I’m committed to the actualization of its ideology and its innovative roadmap for the regeneration of Nigeria and the creation of the material and social wealth that will secure the present welfare and future security of Nigerians living today and generations yet unborn.”
Ideh is campaigning under the Alliance for a New Nigeria, one of the newly-registered political parties.
She hails from Ewohinmi Village in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State.
She had her early education at the legendary Mayflower Primary School, Ikenne, Ogun State and at the Federal Government Girls School (FGGC), Onitsha Anambra State.
