Ahead of the Saturday Governorship elections across Nigeria,the former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani has backed the re-election bid of the All Progressives Congress candidate and current Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-olu.
According to him, though the recent presidential election results reveal the overt threats from the Labour Party in Lagos State, it’s time the voters in the State shun all forms of sentiments and considered experience; capacity and ability to work and deliver on campaign promises.
He also said in a cosmopolitan State such as Lagos,people shouldn’t vote along line of sentiments, especially when Sanwo-olu is a working clock and working machine,who has consolidated on the good works of all his predecessors.
Senator Shehu Sani, who stated this in an interview with some journalists on his view about the forthcoming March 18 gubernatorial elections across Nigeria said in his views that, “Stopping Sanwo-olu is stopping the wheel of progress.”
Fielding question on why as a PDP member, he decided to support Sanwo-olu of APC for Lagos Governor instead the PDP candidate , the former Lawmaker said, ” It’s true that I am a member of the People’s Democratic Party ,but from the PDP’s performance during the Presidential election in Lagos , it obvious that the battle is between APC and Labour Party .For me, the leadership record of Sanwo-olu is inspiring.I’m not from Lagos, but Lagosians should vote for him.
On attacks on Igbos and their Properties , Sani said ,”Lagos is not a no man’s land, but it’s wrong to attack the Igbos.They are there, because they believe in one Nigeria. The constitution guarantees every citizen the right to live anywhere.
“I don’t know about the Labour candidate but it appears he is a man of honour and with great ideas. The challenge he poses is good for democracy.”
The gubernatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress APC, in Kaduna state will beat all other contending parties with wide margin in the upcoming 2023 governatorial election in the state.
Comrade Musa Mohammed, a Supporter of Senator Uba Sani, stated this in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday.
He said the party, based on plans and indicators on ground will win at both the gubernatorial and state assembly level with overwhelming votes, including the Hon. Isah Ashiru Kudan of PDP in the state,
“Ashiru Kudan is from Kaduna, a former member of both state and national assembly. He will get some votes but APC will defeat him in the gubernatorial race, and will defeat all other political parties by God’s grace.
“We are saying, we are going to have a wide margin in the coming election.
He explained that indicators on the ground have placed the leading opposition in the state, the PDP, in third place position in the coming elections.
“I want to assure you that the PDP will be surprised on Saturday 11th March 2023 gubernatorial and state assembly elections,” he said.
He said the Governorship candidate of the APC in Kaduna state, Sen. Uba Sani is receiving increasing acceptance and support from indigens within and outside the state as the Campaign continues, especially from professionals who have made inputs and fine tuned manifestoes of the party in the state.
“People are accepting him because they see him as more matured, composed, very humble and highly experienced person, especially as a former SSA on public affairs to former president Obasonjo, former Special adviser Political to governator of Kaduna State Malam Nasiru El-Rufai and serving Senator.
“On personal ground, he has given scholarships to students across the state and free healthcare services to people from his senatorial district.
“People feel he can rightly stir affairs of the state.
“Uba Sani’s campaign is hinged on continuity having worked with Governor Nasiru El-Rufai for years,” he said.
Senator Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate won in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner.
He also scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required. INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, who announced the final results in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja, said Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second in the election.
Atiku polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the election.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
Mr Yakubu said a Certificate of Return for the President and Vice President will be presented by 3 p.m. on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre.
Only the top four candidates won the presidential election in at least one state. Each of Messrs Tinubu, Atiku and Obi won in 12 states while Mr Kwankwaso won only in Kano. However, winning a majority of states is not a requirement for a candidate to be declared the winner of the election.
Senator Uba Sani the All Progressive Congress (APC) governatorial candidate in kaduna state, congratulated Bola Tinubu.
“I, Senator Uba Sani, the Governatorial candidate of APC in Kaduna State, heartily congratulate the newly elected Nigerian president Sen. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on your overwhelming victory in the just concluded presidential election,” Uba Sani said.
He assured Tinubu that the people of Kaduna state, including himself and all stakeholders would support his administration.
The Senator equally commended INEC for conducting free and fair election, which he described as a fair process. Uba Sani encourage all APC members in Kaduna state to come together to support him in the forthcoming governatorial election and the state assembly elections for a victorious. “There is no doubt that Senator Asiwaju Tinubu possesses the requisite experience and political sagacity which will make him to take nigeria to greater heights”.
According to him, the President’s selfless disposition and leadership have provided solution that strengthen the party which firmly brought Tinubu victory at the polls. Uba Sani pledge to continue to support Tinubu and APC at all times. Bola Tinubu won the election in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states. Atiku won in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states.
Mr Obi won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, FCT, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.
The National coordinator coalition of Buhari/APC support groups Comrade Garba Musa Bello has urged all nigerians electorate across all the six geopolitical zones to switch over to Atiku/Okowa and vote PDP in the forthcoming general election come 25th February 2023.
Comrade Musa Bello made the statement during a World press conference and declaration for Atiku/Okowa Presidency 2023, by the Coalition of Buhari/APC support groups, which took place at Nicon Luxury, Abuja on Monday. He further stated that, there’s need to rescue nigerians from the current situation.
“You will all agree with me that Nigerians have endured for 8 consecutive years the poor leadership with the APC lead administration and we need to rescue our country from such leadership is characterized by nepotism, mediocrity, and insincerity”.
” We must therefore raise up to our collective responsibly and say ‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’ to APC led administration in Nigeria for the betterment of the unborn generations”.
“The hardship presently Nigerians undergoing as a result of bad leadership and Maladministration which ruined every aspect of our society and the government ultimately end up without a clear plan and action or purpose for the citizens, which led to untold hardship due to artificial poverty inflicted on the citizens”.
” Nigerians should reject this wickedness in the entirety”. The coordinator call on all nigerians irrespective of religion or ethnic background to switch their loyalty and support to Atiku/Okowa whom he described as competent candidates that will unify, recover and rescue nigeria as a nation from bad leadership.
Comrade Musa Bello charged all his coalition groups to be united and deliver Atiku Abubakar / Okowa in 2023, stressing that with his candidacy, they can right the wrong and restore peace and progress in the nation.
“We are not going to engage in the usual jamboree campaign but in a grassroot mobilisation built on a pragmatic mass base.
“All hands must be on deck down to each polling booths to ensure the victory of Atku/Okowa in 2023 to dislodge the impeding and disastrous carnage of the APC choice of 2023, which is a ticking time bomb, waiting to explode our unity, peace and progress.
“There is no rational for a Muslim/Muslim ticket. It is an insult to our sensibility and offends whom we are and what we believe in as a people. It is a direct attack on our strength and believe, and tactically portends that our political process can be ignored. “With Atiku Abubakar’s candidacy we can right the wrong and restorepeace to this nation,” he said.
The preservation and restoration of health are integral parts of any healthy and well-functioning society. Dr. Aisha Shehu Adamu innovation, hard work, and devotion changed the face of Federal Medical Centre Jalingo. Her achievements is remarkable in every sense. People are bound to wonder. It’s the kind that fables are made of. The public are keenly aware of the work that you’re doing to help patients across Nigeria.
The Medical Director, Federal medical centre Jalingo, Dr. Aisha Shehu Adamu have delightfully and patriotically risen to the task. The Federal medical centre Jalingo, is the federal government owned tertiary health facility in Taraba state, which also renders medical services nation wide. The MD effectively has proven to be an uphill task as virtually at preceding Medical Directors can attest. The hospital is perennially plagued by shortage of personnel, especially medical doctors, drugs, facilities and restive medical unions. With lean resources, it takes the grace of God to create impact in the management of the medical facility to satisfy public yearnings for qualitative and affordable tertiary health care delivery to the citizenry. However, an astute administrator and prudent manager of resources, Dr. Aisha Adamu, who was appointed the MD on March 25th 2020, by the president of nigeria Muhammadu Buhari, is gradually daring the odds, breaking the barriers and creating unexpected impacts. Her judicious application of meagre resources has set the hospital on an unprecedented path of development, attracting public applause to her credit. Dr. Aisha stands tall from her predecessors, with glaring and uncommon development strides and impacts on the medical facility. What arrested public instant attention recently, she improved sanitary condition of the health facility. Clean wards, beddings, flowery and scintillating environment, with inviting fragrance were alluring. Staff discipline has also improved, as services were speedily rendered to patients and with an unusual politeness. This is a marked departure from the culture of the past when staff were more at home bullying patients. Or put differently, their uncouth official behavior was capable of worsening the health condition of an already traumatized patients battling with life. Aside improving the working atmosphere and interaction between staff and patients, the incumbent administrator has delved into providing special services not offered by the hospital before now. For the first time in the history of the hospital, medical services that have never been provided that had to spend huge sums of money to access the services abroad, in Abuja or elsewhere, but DR. AISHA SHEHU ADAMU has ended the nightmare. Majority of the people in Jalingo, Taraba and neighbouring states excitedly how they have been relieved from the burden of seeking such specialized services at exorbitant costs in far places and praised the foresight and dexterity of the new leadership at FMC Jalingo led by Dr. Aisha Shehu Adamu. Therefore, we understand that those who are disciplined enough to impact with little resources, can perform incredibly even when they are trusted with more funds. I am impressed that Dr. Aisha has demonstrated commitment to the development of the hospital and she is uncompromisingly determined to reposition it as one of the best of such health facilities in the country. That she has been able to minimize the industrial restiveness in the hospital from medical unions alone is an indication of her unbeatable suave in leadership. I hope to see more of such positive results sprout from this health facility.
Comrade Musa Mohammed is a Media Practitioner (Kaduna Based Journalist) write this Article
…Vows to Unite Members to Deliver 40 million Votes for Tinubu/Shettima
Ahead of the 2023 general elections,the National Coordinator of Tinubu Shettima Network (TSN), Engineer Kailani Muhammad has been appointmented , Acting Director-General of the Amalgamated All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups for the Presidential flagbearer of the Party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima.
Engineer Kailani Muhammad,who is also an APC Chieftain with a huge grassroots support base across the 19 Northern states of the country,promised to use the position to bring all members of the support groups together as a united front to win the election landslide.
In a chat with journalists shortly after a meeting with stakeholders and women groups at his Kaduna Residence, Kailani hinted that the over two thousand support groups spread the 36 states of Nigeria have commenced a door-door campaign to mobilize nothing less than forty million votes for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the February 25 presidential elections.
According to him,the same support groups were able to deliver twenty million votes for President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 election and will do same for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima this time round.
He spoke further,”Today there are many people in our groups, who don’t believe in the reckless manner the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governed the country.And we still have several Nigerians joining the Tinubu Shettima support groups in order to sustain the good work of President Muhammadu Buhari.”
On issue of Naira swap and fuel scarcity, Kailani thanked Governors of Kaduna ,Kogi and Zamfara States for swiftly filing a case at the Supreme court to secure the order stoping CBN’s February 10 deadline .
“The action has helped to expose all the crooks ,who have conspired with some persons within corridors of power to frustrate the outcome of elections.
“For adequate fuel supply at filling stations , I can authoritatively inform you that the National Nigerian Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL has stepped up measures to ensure enough supply of petrol and within few days the queues will be a thing of past .
He however, urged Nigerians to shun detractors, who hell bent on working against Tinubu Shettima ticket for selfish reasons and come out en masse to vote the APC candidate,who has the best of programmes to deliver Nigeria from shackles of poverty; insecurity,unemployment , dwindling economy and shortage of food supply .
“The essence of the meeting held are to inform and show the whole world that we don’t have any other candidates than Tinubu and Shettima to deliver Nigeria and other candidates contesting under APC platform .
“We have already won the election , we have 21 governors in vault and have 5 PDP Governors supporting us .
It will interest you to know that 27 political parties have endorsed our principal Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and hoping that more persons will join as the election draw nearer.
A member of All Progressive Congress (APC) and ident Supporter of Gubernatorial candidate in kaduna state, Comrade Musa Mohammed has expressed confidence that the Governorship Candidate of the APC Senator Uba Sani will be governor of Kaduna State.
Mohammed stated this on Thursday during a meeting with Political writers and other civil society organizations in Kaduna ahead of the general elections.
He said the massive support by the people of Kaduna State is enough for Uba Sani to be Governor.
“The acceptability of Uba Sani and Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe is a clear indication that APC will win kaduna State.
“Our ward-to ward Campaign has witnessed tremendous support across the state and we are optimistic that we will be victorious at the end of the 2023 governorship election in Kaduna State.
“We have other governorship candidates but the most accepted candidate is Uba Sani.
“His name is a household name and he is known for his antecedents.
“He is experienced enough to be our governor together with his running mate as our deputy governor.
“The combination of Uba Sani and Hadiza Sabuwa is what the people of Kaduna State need for the new kaduna we have been talking about.” he said
APC presidential flagbearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he is counting on God to win the 2023 presidential elections because “power rests with the almighty Allah”.
Asiwaju made this known at a Town Hall Meeting organized by the Stakeholders Relations Directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja on Sunday.
He explained that a true believer is he who looks up to Devine intervention in all he or she does, including seeking an elective office.
He also advised religious leaders not to allow themselves to be misled by politicians in the choice of elected representatives in the forthcoming general elections, assuring that the APC means well for long-suffering Nigerians.
Tinubu told the gathering of Muslim leaders and stakeholders that the forthcoming election would be an opportunity to strengthen the ligaments that bind Nigerians together as a people whose resilience would pay off handsomely in nation building.
In his opening remark at the event, Malam Jamilu Haidara explained that the event was a roll call of Nigerians from all walks of life, namely religious scholars from the North, South-south and Southeast, expressing confidence that the engagement would be robust. He described the participants as patriots passionate about the democratic future of the nation under the APC leadership.
Also speaking at the event, the Director of Stakeholders Relations’, Malam Nuhu Ribadu said that Tinubu has built enough goodwill since his days as governor of Lagos State and many years afterwards, supporting empowerment of people across the nation and advocating for good governance on the democratic space.
Jigawa State Governor Mohammad Badaru Abubakar in his submission at the event urged Nigerians to focus on the track records of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as elected representative in the past and ignore the “failed revisionism of Tinubu’s political rivals”, adding that the APC presidential flagbearer has already unveiled his development agenda for the country.
In attendance at the event were other prominent Nigerians, notably the former Speaker Oladimeji Bankole, former Minister of the FCT, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo, former State House permanent secretary, Mal. Jalalu Arabi, Mal. Nafiu Baba Ahmed, Secretary-General, SCSIN, Sheikh Dr. Khalid Aliyu, Secretary-General, JNI and member Board of Trustees, SCSIN, Sheikh Dr. Bashir Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, Sheikh Prof. Abdullahi Pakistan, Sheikh Khalid Usman Khalid, Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Sheikh Dr. Haroun Ajah, Sheikh Muhammad Sirajuddeen, Special Adviser to the APCP PCC on Public Affairs, Mahmud Jega, among many others.
…Commends Kyari Led NNPCL Management for Proactive Measures
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has thrown its weight behind the clamour for removal of subsidy as the only remedy for recurring fuel Scarcity across the country.
According to the northern based political and socio-cultural organization, the best way for the National Nigerian Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL)to make fuel available always is to removed subsidy completely.
The Secretary-General of ACF,Murtala Aliyu, who disclosed this in an interview said ,”For as long as we continue to import fuel, we have to subsidize it and doing so, will certainly make government resources to continue to be limited .
He vehemently kicked against the idea of borrowing money to pay for subsidy, adding that government has been shying away from the issue of subsidy and this is where the problem resides .
He further explained : “We all know that Petrol; diesel , kerosene and gas are all utilities . Like we buy firewoods, pay for water and pay for electricity, if we want to use it, we should pay for petrol too.It will definitely put cost on transportation, and other things but, that is the reality of the situation .
While noting that If subsidy is removed,there would be enough resources to provide for security of lives and property of the citizens; education, health care etc, he expressed strong support for open market for marketers to do the importation and sell freely.
” I am sure if this is done, the rate will crash because ,products will be are available . And certainly, issue of price hikes will be over. Let the market forces of demand and supply determine price of goods and services .” He stated .
Meanwhile ,he urged the Management of Engineer Mele Kyari led Management of National Nigerian Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to intensify efforts to ensure the recent fuel queues at filling stations across Nigeria disappear .
On the performance of NNPC under Mele Kyari ,the ACF Scribe said ,” If you’re talking about the performance of the NNPCL or the oil sector generally, I think since the Buhari administration came up, we have had less problem with fuel queues until recently .
He therefore urged the leadership of NNPCL to redeem the good image hitherto achieved in recent years as a company with improved performance and ensure that the issue of long queues in the filling stations are addressed immediately.
Fielding question on issue of oil discovery in the north, the ACF Scribe, said there is not exciting the news of about oil discovery in the north .
He explained: In the first place ,the issue of discovering oil should not a competition matter ,but something that the whole country should be happy with .
“I can tell you that if for any reason we discovered oil anywhere Within the country, we should all be happy because, it’s an additional resources that will help provide more jobs ,lead to sustainable growth and development .
“If there is oil in commercial quantity found inland ,it should not be used for export,but processed for internal consumption.
“We can have modular refineries all around to produce the crude oil discovered in Gombe and Bauchi states .And where there is gas, we should use it for generation of energy instead of looking at it from the export dimensions. And if it becomes abundant ,even our neighbours can now benefit.”
While stating that discovery of oil in the north is a positive thing, he advised, “It shouldn’t be about export or 13 per cent derivation,but about the fact that there is enough resources for the country,for the population to enjoy .
“We in the ACF are not expressing undue excitement about oil discovery in the north.”
“People look at things politically ,they think north needs to also measure up because the see you as not producing anything . If you at the Nigerian GDP ,Oil is responsible for less 10 per cent, Which means there is something else keeping the country together like Agriculture.
“Secondly , agriculture provides more employment than any other sector which means they engage the economy more the oil sector .
“I think not just oil any other resources that help could help the teeming masses to more comfortable and wealthier. ,I think government should embark on exploration of such resources.”
A member of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kaduna state, and chairman and CEO Babbar Harka Resources and Global Links Limited, Producers of Babbar Harka Fertilizer, Alhaji Nasir Shuaibu (Babbar Harka) has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the 2023 elections in Kaduna State.
Nasir ‘Babbar Harka’ made the statement in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday.
He said they would generate votes for the governatorial Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) Senator Uba Sani in Kaduna, in the forthcoming general election.
“We have the capacity to bring in votes”. “As a grass root mobilisers in Kaduna, which includes all the 23 local government area’s, we have supporters from wards to polling units and we intend to make sure we generates votes from each polling units”
He noted that it was the APC only has structures in all the 23 Local Government Areas in Kaduna State.
”APC is already winning and will win in Kaduna”, he boasted”.
He noted that governor Malam Nasiru El-Rufai has done a lot for kaduna state’ since he assumed office. “El-Rufai had laid the right foundation for progressive governance, as he had been responsive, progressive, and totally committed to the needs of the people”.
He urged to the electorate to focus on picking leaders based on competence rather than religion.
“APC and Uba Sani Supporters must put all hands on deck to win the election”.
“We have to see how to reset our dear state kaduna out of three major crack- lines, ethnicity, religion and class and when you look at it, poverty doesn’t know whether you are a Muslim or a Christian, insecurity doesn’t know Muslim or Christian, all the indices that is hitting us on the face in the country today has nothing to do with whether you are a Muslim or Christian,” he added.
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