Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has underlined that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would reclaim its pride of position in Nigeria and Zamfara state in the next 2023 general election.
Tambuwal announced this on Monday in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara State, where he had gone to discuss with party stakeholders on whether to prosecute or quit his aspiration to run for President of Nigeria in 2023.
According to a statement issued by the governor's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Muhammad Bello, the Gusau visit was the second leg of Governor Tambuwal's presidential campaign speech, after his visit to Jigawa State last week Tuesday.
According to him, the reversal of the fortunes ofof the PDP
in leading Nigeria and Zamfara State will soon be over.
He observed that the reasons why he left PDP in 2018 were
still subsisting under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) “therefore,
the leadership of the APC in the country must be challenged in order to make
things work right.”
Enumerating the ills fostered on Nigerians and the people of
Zamfara by the APC government as insecurity, economic downturns, debilitating
healthcare system and the “collapse of virtually everything,” the governor
pledged that “if we succeed in our bid the country will witness a reversal of
the current bad fortunes.”
He also expressed sympathies to people of Zamfara state on
the spate of insecurity and urged them to collectively convoke a security
summit to brainstorm on the problem with a view to providing good leadership.
On the recent moves by the Zamfara State House of Assembly
to impeach the State’s Deputy Governor, Barrister Mahdi Aliyu Gusau, Tambuwal
described the move as subjudice.
“The matter is in the
court and any law abiding person must allow the law to take its due course,” he
cautioned protagonists of the move.
In his remarks at the occasion, a former governor of Sokoto
State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, said the purpose of their visit was to present
Governor Tambuwal to the Zamfara PDP rank and file for consultation with them
on the pursuit of his ambition to run for President next year.
“He is not a stranger to you. He’s our brother. Sokoto a d
Zamfara states are the same entity.He (Tambuwal) sought the same position in
2019. Then seven of us from the North contested and he emerged second.
“Young and energetic then and now, I believe he still has
the capacity to do it very well more than us. He is ready. I have no doubt that
he will represent us very well if he gets the chance,” Bafarawa said.
Bafarawa also added that Tambuwal and his entourage
comprising of former Deputy Governor of Sokoto state, Alhaji Mukhtar Shagari
and the former minister of power, Engr Bello Suleiman, were in the state not
for campaign, “but for the progress and development of this state owing to the
obvious monumental loss of lives and property being witnessed on daily basis
here.”
The former governor who said he won’t apportion blame to
anyone for the insecurity situation in the state, however, pointed out that
“whoever does right knows it. And, we whoever does wrong knows it,” quoting
late Zamfara-born Hausa singer, Alhaji Musa Dankwairo.
“We need fervent
prayers for God’s intervention on what is happening in the state. In the same
vein, we should pray to God to give the leaders the courage to lead well,” he
offered.
The Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Barrister Mahdi Aliyu Gusau, welcomed Tambuwal's group and thanked them for their visit.
While enumerating Governor Tambuwal's political qualifications, he offered to assist him in his candidacy if he so chooses. "There will be no going back in our desire to support him all the way," he vowed.
On the arrival of Governor Tambuwal and his entourage, Barrister Gusau led the state party chairman, Col. Bala Mande (rtd), a former military administrator of Nasarawa State, its secretary, Alhaji Umaru Farouk (Shettiman Rijiya), and other stakeholders of the state chapter of the PDP to a rousing welcome by a large crowd.
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