The ruling New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kano state on Sunday, July 7, said it administration, under Governor Abba Yusuf, is achieving a lot while carrying members of the opposition parties along.
NNPP state chairman, Hashimu Dungurawa, who briefed journalists on the one year administration of Governor Abba Yusuf at the party’s secretariat, said the NNPP led government was running an all-inclusive government while delivering dividends of democracy to every citizen of Kano, irrespective of their party differences.
“N25 million was given to each of the 44 local government areas of the state to fix minor disrepairs in primary and secondary schools of the councils, such as windows, doors, paintings and toilets.
“This was done by Governor Abba Yusuf through the Community Re-orientation Committee (CRC), which has no discrimination irrespective of political affiliation. Members of different political parties (NNPP, APC, PDP and others) were there, the chief Iman was there, village heads and the youth council among others. Because we want to engage everyone to make their contributions and be a part and beneficiary of what government is doing.
“So, we have extended the hand of fellowship and we are carrying everybody along, because it is our responsibility as a ruling party in the state, to do so. We all come from different communities and we cannot abandon the communities, that is why we are improving on their schools, just as we cannot leave them without providing portable drinking water and security and other amenities.
“Recently, we did election involving the various political parties (IPAC) and the executives of different parties were there. Even when we are doing our things as a government, we do involve them, because governance is not a one man show because you don’t know everything, as the saying goes that ‘two heads are better than one,’ we are involving everyone so that we can achieve more. And more so, our governor is a listening leader,” he said.
In terms of achievements, Dungurawa said the NNPP administration led by Governor Abba Yusuf has done incredibly well in education, agriculture, health, women and youths empowerment, payment of pensions, gratuity and death benefits to retirees as well as infrastructure among other sectors.
He said: “In the agriculture sector, the administration has given trucks of fertilisers to each of the 44 local government areas to be shared among farmers at the wards and polling units, unlike the past administration that when they promised fertilisers to farmers, they would give them in September when they are about harvesting their farm crops. So, we can only thank the governor for fulfilling the NNPP campaign promises.
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“In education, we allocated almost 30 percent of the budget to education, first in history. We declared state of emergency on the sector to fix all the rots, recruited more teachers, build additional classrooms and supplied furniture, paid for WAEC and other exams for our students and did many things within just one year.
“Governor Abba Yusuf has released N11 billion for retirees. N6 billion was first released, which I believe was for retired teachers and was successfully paid, and now N5 billion has been released and the beneficiaries are smiling. It was not so in eight years of the immediate past administration, which was illegally deducting pensioners money. So we have done a lot that time would not permit me to enumerate all the achievements, and that is why the governor is winning several performance awards.”