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  • Kaduna killings: Yakowa cancels foreign trip

    •‘Govt will arrest perpetrators’

    Kaduna State Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa yesterday called off his foreign trip and visited Dogon Dawa community, which was attacked on Sunday by some criminals said to be on a revenge mission.

    The governor said his administration would pick up the medical bill of the injured.

    Yakowa said the government would collaborate with states sharing boundary with Birnin Gwari to drive out the criminals in the area.

    The governor told the residents that the state would fish out those responsible for the killings.

    Yakowa was received by the Emir of Birnin Gwari, Alhaji Jubril Maigwari.

    The governor said a special State Security Council meeting would be held to plan how to drive away criminals away from the area.

    He said Kaduna State would collaborate with the security agencies in Niger, Zamfara, Kebbi and Katsina states to curtail criminality.

    The governor was accompanied by the Genaral Officer Commanding (GOC) One Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Wahab; the State Director of the State Security Service (SSS), Mr. Yomi Zamba; Police Commissioner Olufemi Adenaike; the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), senior security officers, among others.

  • 2015: Count me out, says Yakowa

    2015: Count me out, says Yakowa

    GOVERNOR Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State wants to be counted out of the 2015 presidential race and warns those linking his name to the election to let him be.

    According to the governor, he is currently pre-occupied with delivering the dividends of democracy to the people of the state who elected him into office last year.

    In a statement by Mr. Reuben Buhari, his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Governor Yakowa said moves to drag his name into the 2015 presidential race are nothing but a deliberate and calculated mischief aimed at pitching him against President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo.

    A group which called itself Northern Democratic Alliance had, in an advertorial, claimed that the governor had been endorsed to contest the 2015 Presidential election with former Oyo State governor, Rasheed Ladoja, as running mate.

    The statement said that the real intention of the promoters of what it called ‘tales by moonlight’ is to portray the governor in bad light and a disloyal party member.

    Mr. Buhari said: “The governor has made it very clear that everybody has the constitutional right to contest for any political office they are interested in, but such ambition should not be built on the destruction of His Excellency‘s hard earned reputation as trust-worthy and loyal party member.

    “The sponsors of such write-up should feel free to market themselves to the people, with whom the final decision rests but should leave the governor out of it as he has never shown interest in the 2015 presidential race.

    “For the avoidance of doubt, the focus of Governor Patrick Yakowa is the continued delivery of democracy dividends to the good people of Kaduna State through his three widely acclaimed agenda of Security, Unity and Development.”