Thursday witnessed an increase in the number of Nigerians seeking to contest the office of the President in the 2019 general elections as Dr. Elishama Rosemary Ideh became the first female aspirant to declare her presidential intention.

Declaring officially on Thursday in Abuja, Dr. Ideh, popularly known as Elishama said Nigeria currently needed a different model of governance and a leader who would bring a different style to governance predicated on workable solutions.

“Nigeria needs a leader who combines integrity with intelligence and a deep and vast understanding of the implications of the 21st global economy and Nigeria’s place in it,” Elishama said .

Elishama, who would be contesting under the platform of Alliance for a New Nigeria (ANN) said she has seen faces of Nigeria’s past, present and future, adding that she has strived to reach for workable solutions to problems and challenges peculiar to the time and place of each of her engagements.

“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.”

While pledging to hit the ground running if elected, she further promised to reform the country’s revenue generation and allocation structure, including federal tax regimes if given opportunity as president of Nigeria.

“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.

“We will work together to ensure fair remuneration in terms of wages, welfare packages and retirement benefits within the limits of our means. Periodic wage increase will be carried out, not on sentiment, emotional or even humanitarian ground but always according to our production capacity and corresponding revenues,” she added.