Governorship polls: Uba Sani support group assures on Elrufai victory
The Uba Sani Solidarity Forum (USF) has expressed confidence that incumbent Governor Nasir Elrufai of Kaduna State will return to office for the second term based on his performance rating.
In a media release signed by its Chairman, Ibrahim Garba Giwa, the group noted that Governor Elrufai’s administration has recorded “unbeatable milestone in infrastructure, education, healthcare delivery and empowerment of women and youth, among others.”
The group said the incumbent governor has also broken record in cutting down on the cost of governance, beginning with making “the rare sacrifice of reducing his monthly salary and that of his Deputy, Architect Barnabas Bala Bantex,” describing the move as exemplary, “because Elrufai inherited empty treasury at take-off”.
The statement also hailed the incumbent governor for the ‘ease of doing business’ policy, for which the office of Vice President Osinbajo rated Kaduna as “the second best in social intervention programmes in the whole of this country”.
The statement went on to declare that at no time in the political history of the State have women got the kind of integration they are now getting under the Elrufai government, adding that “no State government has ever been so gender-sensitive in this dispensation”.
Turning to the issue of economic empowerment, the group noted that “Elrufai has opened multiple windows of opportunity for youth and women, especially those from poor homes and the result is that majority of these beneficiaries are now employers of labour at their own level”.
The statement also commeded Governor Elrufai for taking “very bold steps of using Kaduna’s money for infrastructure rather than the old culture of sharing State funds amongst a few selfish political elites.”
The group then declared: “We are confident that Governor Nasir Elrufai, just like President-elect Muhammadu Buhari will win this election by God’s grace, because he has shown himself to be a serious-minded agent of transformation in the last 4 years, with radical approach to policy and governance”.
