By Shafiu Yahaya
The chairman of Gabasawa Local Government Area of Kano State, Pharm. Sagir Usman Abubakar has said that there is no amount of intimidation from the side of opposition that will make local government chairmen change their loyalty from Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of the state to someone else.
The chairman made the disclosure while speaking with The Triumph recently in Kano, the state capital.
Pharm. Abubakar, vividly opposed any intimidation that their loyalty was to a particular person not the governor.
While responding to an allegation that they were pretending to be the governor’s loyalists, he said such allegation was not true.
He said all the chairmen, lawmakers at both federal and state levels, councillors of the 44 local government areas in the state, members of Kano Proper, those of Community Reorientation Council and a good number of political office holders, declared their unalloyed loyalty to the governor.
He said whoever was fanning the embers of disunity or dishonesty among the followers of Governor Yusuf would be ashamed, retreating that he or she was doing so just to achieve cheap blackmail and political manipulation or satisfy his or her own ego.
He said those doing so would not succeed in their actions.
According to him, they are all working for the success of the governor, especially now that 2027 is around the corner when the governor would make a come back to Government House for the second tenure.
He said they were ready to ensure the success of the ‘Four Plus Four’ agenda of the governor in the state.
Pharm. Abubakar said they were solidly behind Governor Yusuf, stressing that there was no political blackmail or intimidation that would remove them away from the governor, saying that they stood firmly to support the governor in order for him to realise his ‘Kano First’ agenda so that through the agenda, the governor would continue to attract projects to the state from the Federal Government.
Pharm. Abubakar said currently the governor had executed numerous projects across all the wards in the 44 local government areas of the state, reiterating that the governor had executed development projects in all the wards in the state, thus impacting positively on the lives of dwellers of both rural and urban areas.
He noted that in particular, his local government had benefitted from the governor’s gesture in the area of revitalizing Corporate Security Institute Gabasawa, modernisation of Juma’at Mosques, provision of roads network, Five Kilometer Road and completion of Zakirai General Hospital among others.
Talking about his local government area, Pharm. Abubakar said, he was able to provide scholarship to the students of the area as his administration had already assessed the unity school in the area for its proper renovation.
He said all the wards in the area had about two schools renovated by his council.
The chairman said he also granted scholarship, through a programme he initiated, to a number of students studying at Kazaure Informatic Institute, Nafisatu College of Nursing Madobi, in addition to provision of support to those to be taken to Audu Bako College of Agriculture, Thomas Dambatta.
He said the previous administration had made local government system a moribund in the state where a chairman could spend a month without appearing in the local government, but now the scenario had changed, as he himself used to spend the whole day attending to the need of his people at the local government secretariat.
In his future plan for the local government, Pharm. Abubakar, said he intended to bring new lease of life in the education and agricultural sectors of the area.
He said he would invite people to invest in the sectors to make the area a model.
On health sector, he said they would extend an invitation to experts to impart and encourage people towards receiving proper knowledge or education there on ways to take the sector to the next level of progress.
He said Drug Revolving Fund would be boosted in the area, in addition to the provision of employment opportunities to youths there.
He said the council would revive all skill acquisition centers in order to support the teeming populace of the area, especially womenfolk, with such skills for self sustainance.