The Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso yesterday reminded the former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar of leading them out of the PDP then to form the All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to him, Atiku did that because for him the PDP was bad, but they have all realised that the ruling APC is now very bad.
Kwankwaso spoke yesternight, at a town hall meeting organised by Arise TV, Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, in partnership with Vanguard newspapers, Premium Times on-line news platform, Daily Trust newspapers, Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE and the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Abuja.
The former Kano State Governor called for a holistic review of the Constitution to ensure that the 774 local Government Areas get their allocations directly rather than from their various states for effective and efficient development of the local areas and the states in general.
According to him, as Governor of Kano State, he adopted a method of brainstorming with the Local Government Area (LGA) chairmen each time the Commissioner of Finance returned to the State from Abuja on the Federal Allocation, then begin to table those issues that must be addressed, with salaries first and others, which led to the construction of five kilometers’ road in each of the GAs, turbines in two of their dams as well as pay all the salaries.
He said that given what he did in Kano explains why people say his strength is in Kano, not knowing that he and the party are in the entire country.
On Education and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, he would encourage the private sector to invest education from the primary to the tertiary level, just as he said that everything about ASUU has to do with honesty, credibility and sincerity.
