Haliru Danbaba Assures 90 Per-Cent Vote For
Buhari From Kwara North
Abdullahi Haliru-Danbaba, the Kwara House of Assembly candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Kaiama/Kenmaji/Wajibe Constituency
has expressed confidence that the North Senatorial District will give 90
percent of the votes to president Muhammadu Buhari and all APC candidates in
the general elections.
Haliru-Danbaba who was speaking to
newsmen in Ilorin today said, the senatorial district had been in alliance with
the political dynasty of Senate President Bukola Saraki for
years without any tangible development to show for it.
He
explained that in spite of the allegiance to the Sarakis for years, Kwara North
had suffered perennial neglect in terms of infrastructure and human capital
development.
This is as Saraki, in a recent interview, noted
that Saraki Dynasty is still very strong and “…..you will see that when the
result comes.”Lambaba News reports.
Note that before his candidacy,
Haliru-Danbaba was formerly a Special Assistant on Non-Governmental Affairs
to Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed but resigned to join
the APC.
He said: “We have been persistently in
Saraki’s political dynasty.
“With the critical appraisal of our allegiance
to the dynasty, we got to realise that there is nothing
tangible to show to the people of Kaiama Local Government and others as a
result of our loyalty and allegiance to that dynasty.
“So, our people unanimously asked me to resign
my appointment on Non-Governmental Affairs to Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed and come
back home and contest.
“On getting home, I was endorsed to be the
candidate of APC for Kaiama/Kenmaji/Wajibe State Constituency.
“Perennially, we suffer neglect in terms of
infrastructure, human capital development.
“ We have not been adequately taken care of
and we felt we should not go with him and that prompted my ambition to go to
the state House of Assembly to contribute to Kaiama’s development and indeed
Kwara State.’’
According
to Haliru, he was optimistic that the agitations and yearnings of his people
would be met under an APC government at the state and federal levels.
This, he
said, had been demonstrated with the recent approval by the Federal Executive
Council of the construction of the New Bussa-Wawa-Kaiama road project worth
N23.8 billion.
“It is a well known fact that the APC agenda and manifestoes are anchored on
three major things – fighting corruption, revamping the economy and ensuring
internal security.
“I believe if these can go down now to the
state and local government levels, we will get the much-desired dividend of democracy by the special grace of Allah,’’
he said.
Haliru-Danbaba
condemned his former principal for lack of commitment to the construction of
Kishi-Kaiama road which he said was started in 2014 inspite of reimbursement
from the Federal Government.
“Despite the whopping sum of over N1 billion
released to the state government, the job done was not commensurate with the
money released
“Even if the contract is N100 million
per kilometre, by now we should talking of
getting to Gate community and that is about 12 kilometres from Kaiama.
“But there is nothing to write home about the
job presently.
“The quality of job is also poor because it is surface dressing and we are in
the 21st century. I doubt whether there is anywhere in this country where
surface dressing is done by any state or Federal Government,’’ he
said.
Haliru-Danbaba,
who disclosed that contractor had since abandoned the site, urged the Federal
Government to heed the people’s call and take over the construction from the
state government being a federal road.
He also
promised to showcase the potentials of the area as a food basket of the country
while highlighting its challenges with a view to addressing them.
The APC
flagbearer identified the challenges to include lack of good roads as well as
primary health facilities and potable water.
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