President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to improve agricultural activities and economic diversification in Kano, if re-elected.
Buhari gave the assurance yesterday, while addressing supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during a presidential campaign rally at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano.
The president, who was joined at the event by governors Issa Moussa of Zinder and Zakari Umar of Maradi states in the Republic of Niger, assured the people that the APC government will not disappoint Nigeria, promised to go the extra miles to arrest and prosecute those who stole the nation’s common wealth while in power.
He declared Kano as his home, and applauded the residents for keeping faith with the APC government, while urging the residents to vote en mass for all APC candidates in the state.
Also speaking, the national chairman of the party, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, denied allegations that APC was perfecting plans to rig the general elections.
He said the party had no intention to manipulate the results of the elections in its favour adding that that none of the presidential candidates of the opposition parties could march Buhari’s credibility.
He claimed that the integrity of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Mr. Atiku Abubakar remains in doubt, until he clears himself from former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s blemishes on him.
Oshiomhole stressed that unless, and until the former vice president sue Obasanjo for label to clear his name, Atiku will remain unfit to run as president.
He criticised the seven million job opportunities promised by the PDP presidential candidate, expressing concern how Atiku will render such employment, having wrecked the nation’s industrial hubs, which provided over 14 million jobs when he and Obasanjo ruled the country.
“Atiku is not interested in empowering ordinary Nigerians; that was why you heard him criticising the federal government’s empowerment programmes.
He was the vice president during Obasanjo’s regime as president when they presided over the obituary of industries in Nigeria.
“They promised to provide millions of jobs, ask them how they would do that when they killed over 14 million jobs in the north and other part of the country. They lack the integrity to come out to campaign before Nigerians, because we know what they have done to the economy of this country in the last 16 years,” said Oshiomhole.
The Guardian
