Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has promised to restore the North’s commercial hub, Kano, to its past glory.
Obi spoke at the Kano Pillars Stadium during the party’s presidential campaign rally yesterday.
He said: “We want to bring back Kano to what Kano used to be. That is what we want to do and we can only do it by pulling you out of poverty. We are not in this business to waste anybody’s time. They have deceived you; they promised you and delivered nothing.
“We are not like that. We want you to take what we are saying and you will see it happen. The election this year; let them not deceive you. They will tell you we are from the North. This election will not be based on ethnicity or tribe,” Obi said.
According to him, Kano was the reference point in his early days as a trader, but regretted that the industries, garment factories, and trading hubs, like Sabon Gari, are no longer the same.