PRESS RELEASE
It appears that the leaders and members of the opposition, All
Progressives Congress (APC) are having sleepless nights ever since
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal revealed his plan to construct 342
housing estate for public officers and senior civil servants in the
state last week.
The Governor while receiving the report of a committee for the delivery
of affordable houses to people of the state explained that the
commemorative project to be named: ‘342 Housing Scheme’ was a special
scheme for a broad spectrum of technocrats in the employ of the state.
These include but not limited to: civil servants, public servants,
members of the state assembly, because they sold their own, members of
the state executive council, permanent secretaries, Directors-General
and Directors.
However, in a feature analysis titled “Why Tambuwal wants to cite
housing project in Wamakko” and published on the Saturday’s edition of
Daily Trust, the Sokoto state APC Chairman, Isa Sadiq Achida, as
expected displayed his usual stuff of unsubstantiated claims. But it is
not surprising because it is a known fact that ever since their defeat
at the governorship election in 2019 by the mighty 342 votes, the mere
mention of the number always runs them mad.
This is because it does not only meant salvation and freedom to the
entire people of Sokoto State but it rekindled their hope for a better
future, especially for their youth and more prosperous state, which
members of the already tattered broom family have been praying against
and hell-bent of fighting anybody’s plans to take the state to greater
height.
The claim by the APC chairman, that none of Governor’s Tambuwal projects
has ever been completed including the secondary school in Balle was
laughable, because it shows that the chairman is yet to regain his sense
after being inflicted with 342 dementia.
Where was he when the 60 offices and a library complex was awarded and
completed by the Tambuwal led government at the Sokoto State University,
resulting in the accreditation of most of its courses ?
Where was he when Ibrahim Dasuki road was awarded and completed by this
administration which was decorated with street lights?
Is the chairman blinded by his enmity to this administration to the
extend, he cannot see the 12 brand new junior secondary schools built
and fully equipped, including provision of ICT facilities across the
three senatorial zones ?
What about the diagnostic centres, the first of its kind in the entire
north, built by this administration and equipped with state of the art
facilities, including City scan, is he not aware of it?
These were aside from many road projects cutting across the length and
breadth of the state as well as other numerous projects that are too
many to mention.
And has the chairman, forgotten soon that as the Commissioner of Home
Affairs under the first tenure of Governor Aminu Waziri, he personally
sought for the total overhauling of the State Fire Service, which was
not only done but also led to the provision of new firefighting machines
in the state.
We are sure the, APC treasurer in the state would testify to our giant
stride in the area of scholarship, because his daughter was among the
200 students sponsored by the current administration to study medicine
and other related courses abroad and we are proud of her, brilliant
performance in her academy pursuit.
The chairman proved to be ignorant of the policies and programmes of the
APC led Federal Government when he asserted that not a single fertilizer
reaches out to farmers during the raining season. Let us educate him a
little, so that he could not make a similar blunder in the future.
Importation of assorted fertilizer is exclusively the right of the
federal government, meaning only the federal government imports the
commodity; the states only make financial commitment which has always
been deducted from their monthly allocations.
However, the Corona Virus pandemic which put the entire world at a
standstill didn’t make it possible for the federal government to import
fertilizer for the wet season farming this year, and even the ones
distributed in Sokoto, after the flag off, was as a result of the
foresight of this administration which saved enough quantity of the
commodity for the raining day.
So rather than making insubstantial claims, leaders and members of APC
in the state should embrace the olive branch extended to them by
Governor Tambuwal, to join hands with his government to move the state
forward, so that they too can be part of this history.
Signed
ABDULLAHI YUSUF HAUSAWA
Publicity Secretary
Sokoto State PDP