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  • Huge crowd as Buhari campaigns in Kano

    Huge crowd as Buhari campaigns in Kano

    HUGE crowd yesterday received All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign team to the Northwest. Kano, the North’s commercial heart and Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, were throbbing with people as APC candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari sold his party’s programme.

    The Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano was filled to capacity. There were more people in the foreground than in the arena.

    Supporters climbed different platforms, including telecom masts, to sight the APC leaders.

    Gen. Buhari and his team, including Campaign Director-General Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, Senator Bukola Saraki, Governor Aliyu Wamakko, Senator Kabir Gaya, party Deputy Chairman Lawal Shuaibu, Chief Bisi Akande and party Chair Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, were received by Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and his deputy, Umar Ganduje. Ganduje is the APC governorship candidate.

    Presenting the party’s candidate to the enthusiastic supporters, Tambuwal said: “I want to tell you that God is with us, for He has given us Buhari who will end corruption in Nigeria…If you come out and vote for us, by God’s grace, we will achieve all we have set to do.”

    Gen. Buhari, overwhelmed by the massive crowds, slowly made his way to the stage and addressed the supporters in Hausa, reaffirming his commitment to restoring security, power supply, education and infrastructure. He also spoke on the vital importance of collecting the permanent voter cards and ensuring that votes are defended. “Ensure you stay behind and defend your votes,” he said to an enthusiastic audience who replied, screaming: Sai Buhari! Baba oyoyo!

    Kwankwaso said he was optimistic that Gen. Buhari would be sworn in as  the president.

    Tinubu said:  Nigeria sai Buhari, Kano sai Ganduje, Kano  Central Senatorial district, sai Kwankwaso. Thank you. God bless you.”

    The team moved to Jigawa at about 4:30pm.

    In Dutse. Gen. Buhari said his administration would utilise aviation, seaport and railways to generate revenue and job opportunities as alternative to oil.

    He promised to revive the agricultural sector, if elected, to provide food and enough raw material to agro-allied companies.

    He said: “As I have been saying wherever I go, if elected into office, my government will revitalise agriculture from subsistence to commercial through provision of modern techniques of farming.”

    He said the devaluation of the Naira, socio -economic backwardness, insecurity, and lack of social amenities will be a thing of the past

    Gen. Buhari said he would fight corruption headlong and would give opportunity to the less privileged to enjoy free education.

    Odigie-Oyegun said Nigeria must be brought back to life again.

    “What we are saying is that there will be peace in Nigeria, once more, if Buhari wins.”

    The gubernatorial candidate of the APC in Jigawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Badaru Talamis, said once Gen. Buhari is voted in as the president, there woulf be no more corruption.

  • APC, Wamakko, Okorocha move to change Nigeria’s fortune

    APC, Wamakko, Okorocha move to change Nigeria’s fortune

    SOKOTO State Governor Aliyu Wamakko has argued that Nigerians have no business being poor amid of abundance, urging the citizenry to rise up in defence of the country’s path to economic glory.

    “We have abundant human and material resource endowments in the country. So why should citizens be poor?” he queried.

    Wamakko made the remark in Sokoto yesterday at the Third Progressive Lecture Series organised by the Progressives Governors’ Forum.

    The governor said: “Nigeria has been blessed with abundant human and material resources, which need to be fully harnessed and take the nation out of the woods”.

    According to him, the country must be collectively rescued, stressing that “Nigerians must collectively work to harness these abundant human and material resources to make Nigeria better.”

    The theme of the lecture was” Dealing with the Challenge of Building a Physically Healthy Nation Through Preventive, Protective and Innovative Medicare.”

    He noted that Nigerians in Diaspora were helping other countries to develop, pointing out that” only Nigerians can take the country to greater heights with increased patriotism and the fear of God which were paramount to salvage the nation”, he said.

    He said: “The APC forum will brainstorm on how best to achieve the best results and make Nigeria to be in tune with global best practices in all spheres of life.”

    Imo State Governor and chairman of the forum, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, stressed on the need to strengthen ways for harnessing of efforts for Nigerians to get qualitative and affordable healthcare.

    He was represented by Health Commissioner Dr. Edward Ihejirika.

     

     

    According to him,” the forum will enable APC-controlled states to have harmonised policies and programmes in tune with global best practices.

    “This can be replicated across Nigeria and tackle all problems, like Ebola was successfully tackled,” he added.

    Also speaking, Sokoto state Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu said that the Wamakko-led administration has accorded top priority to the health sector from 2007 to date.

    Director-General of the forum, Alhaji Salisu Lukman, said the group would facilitate and draw technical inputs from Nigerians, who were knowledgeable.

  • Wamakko swears in aides

    Sokoto State Governor Aliyu Wamakko swore in two commissioners -Tukur Alkali and Ibrahim Hussaini- yesterday.

    Also sworn in at the Government House council chambers were two Special Advisers, Harande Mahe and Musa Gudu.

    He said: “Those with the privilege of serving the state are both individually and collectively responsible to the government and the people.

    “Such privileged honour carries with it a great burden, which requires vision, courage, sacrifice and above all, the fear of Allah.

    “The fear of God is invariably the key to success in every human endeavour.

    “Our political adventure is constantly being championed in the interest of our people not by our selfish motives.”

  • Wamakko pardons detained ruler, inmates

    Wamakko pardons detained ruler, inmates

    detained traditional ruler, Alhaji Suleiman Kurdulla and nine other prison inmates celebrated Sallah with their families after their release from the Sokoto State Central Prisons following an unconditional state pardon by Governor Aliyu Wamakko.

    Suleiman was, in 2005, removed as Village Head of Kurdulla in Gudu Local Government Area of the state and thereafter detained.

    Four of the freed convicted inmates were females.

    The inmates got the unconditional pardon after a brief ceremony presided over by the state Justice Commissioner, Alhaji Nuhu Adamu on behalf of Governor Wamakko.

    The Commissioner said the gesture was in line with the powers conferred on Wamakko by section 212 of the 1999 constitution as amended.

    Adamu explained that seven out of the freed inmates were convicted of crimes while two were awaiting trial.

    Also, Adamu announced the donation of N30,000 to each of the seven freed inmates, courtesy of the state government.

    “The gesture is part of the efforts of the state government to further decongest the prison. It is always being extended during ceremonies like Sallah and Nigeria’s independence anniversary.

    “This is a holy month of Ramadan and the state government decided to extend the same gesture to commemorate the Eid-el-Fitr,” he said.

    He spoke further: “The tenth beneficiary of the gesture was Alhaji Suleiman Kurdulla who was dethroned by the state government in 2005 and he petitioned the present administration which had a second look at his case.

    “The state committee on the prerogative of mercy recommended his unconditional pardon after concluding that his petition had merits and Governor Wamakko approved it.”

    The state Controller of Prisons Hajiya Hawwa’u Shettima commended the state government for donating two 18-seater buses to the prison.

    She added: “We have to also commend the state government for establishing a Ramadan feeding centre at the prison during the Ramadan fast.

    “This laudable gesture would go along way in further decongesting the prison. As at now, over 70 per cent of the inmates in the prison are awaiting trial.”

    She also cautioned he benefiting inmates to shun all acts capable of bringing them back to the prison.

    A spokesman of the freed inmates, Habibu Usman thanked the state government for the gesture, promising to be of good behaviour.

    The gesture brought relief to the families and friends of the ertswhile inmates.