2015: ABU Profs Drum Support For El-Rufai

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, a coalition of Professors from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, have perfected plans to embark on aggressive department to department and Faculty to faculty campaign to drum up support for former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El-Rufia as he prepares to officially declare for the Governorship election of Kaduna State.

The Professors under the platform of Kaduna State Good Governance Project, according to their coordinator, Professor Adamu Ahmed have vowed to use their intellectual resources to support El-Rufai to take-over the State’s mantle of leadership, giving his unparalleled and tremendous experience, vision, bravery, precision and serene patriotism.

Professor Ahmed opined that Kaduna State is too strategic and important to the North in particular and the country in general, to be administered by a politician who is deficient in experience, political will and ability to take bold decisions needed to move the State to greater heights.

He said the State, being the melting pot of Northern politics and administration and which had historically been one of the key deciding factors in producing Nigeria’s president in any free contest, is too critical to be left in the hands of mediocre who do not have clarity of vision, defined programme of action and the intellectual capacity to turn the State into a modern capital and befitting city with all the road networks and other modern infrastructural facilities, required of a historical and leading state such as Kaduna.

The Professor of Urban and Regional Planning who regretted that Kaduna State which is supposed to have since overtaken other States in the country in terms of infrastructural, economic and structural cum and physical developments considering its strategic nature and dense population, has become the most crowded State in the country in which life is gradually becoming too boring and difficult for its residents to cope with, due to lack of proper town planning.

He attributed all this backwardness to the failure of the electorates in the State to, in the past, vote people or leaders on the basis of competence, ability to deliver, track record of achievements and patriotism, but rather they voted most previous governors on the basis of stomach infrastructure.

The coordinator therefore called on politicians and all discerning and patriotic indigenes of Kaduna State to join hands with the members of the Kaduna State Good Governance Project to rescue the State from its present pathetic state of backwardness and insecurity.

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