The Governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kaduna State, Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, has called on the people of Kaduna State to shun divisive politics and be careful of antics of individuals and groups of persons bent on religion and tribal sentiment in order to win election or retain power.
Hunkuyi, who made this known in an interview with newsmen, reiterated his stand on inclusive government that will see him carry everybody along irrespective of age, religion, tribe and language differences if he wins the March 18, 2023 governorship election.
According to him, the claims and counter-claims that some clergymen have endorsed certain candidate for governorship election is a distraction aimed at taking away the mind of people from inadequacies of the All Progressive Congress (APC) government in the State.
But Hunkuyi said Kaduna people should be wise enough to discern what is going on as the governorship and state house of assembly election comes up next Saturday.
According to Hunkuyi, “the rain of mal-administration of APC in the State falls on everyone, both Christians and Muslims”. He added that Kaduna State is known as the centre of learning and he does not expect, “any sensible person whether citizen or resident of the state to be carried away by religious and tribal sentiments, the line some individuals drawn with the sole aim of winning election”.
Senator Hunkuyi, who said he is more experienced and knowledgeable in terms of complexity of the state than other candidates vying for the position of the governor of the State, dismissed allegation that he is also running on Muslim-Muslim ticket.
The NNPP candidate further said he believes in the oneness of the State, and that Kaduna should be treated as metropolitan State where nobody is treated as second-class citizen for the purpose of peace and unity; progress, growth and development.
He vowed to run an inclusive government, review several policies of the outgoing Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i with the aim of revising some of the policies considered as anti-people and anti-progress.
