The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Print Media, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, says the President has fulfilled all the campaign promises he made to the people of Jigawa State and deserves re-election in the forthcoming general elections.
He stated this during a press briefing at the Correspondents’ Chapel in Dutse ahead of President Tinubu’s scheduled visit to the state on Tuesday.
According to him, President Tinubu has been a political ally of Jigawa State’s political elites for decades and that he has great respect for them and for the entire people of the state.
He pointed out that, during Tinubu’s campaign visit to Jigawa in 2022, the late Emir of Dutse Alhaji Nuhu Muhammadu Sunusi personally appealed for the execution of the Dutse greater water project to address decades of water scarcity in the state capital, and the project is now ongoing.
While commenting on infrastructure, Abdulaziz said that the president has continued many inherited road projects in the state to facilitate the movement of goods and services for socio-economic development.
He said, the projects include Kwanar Danja–Tsalle–Hadejia Road (75% complete); Kunya–Kanya–Babura–Babban Mutum Road (82% complete); Kano–Maiduguri Road; the Kano–Maradi rail line corridor; and the Kano–Shuwarin rail line.
“Housing and landmark estates: Renewed Hope Estates in Dutse and other LGAs; a 1,500-housing-unit project; and the allocation of land for affordable housing. The human story of public servants and vulnerable families acquiring homes; the physical transformation of Jigawa’s landscape”.
In agriculture, the SSA said hundreds of thousands of Jigawa farmers have benefited from various interventions initiated under the Renewed Hope Agenda to enhance agriculture and food security.
He noted that, some of the special interventions, besides subsidizing agricultural inputs, included date palm cultivation (1,042 hectares); dry-season wheat farming (120,000 hectares); the Jahun drainage/irrigation project; and the distribution of N5bn worth of farm equipments.
While in social investment and empowerment, “the Renewed Hope Social Protection Scheme (N11.5bn disbursed to more than 178,000 beneficiaries); and the Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme (RHWDP). These are direct cash transfer and empowerment stories that are lifting vulnerable households out of poverty”.
He further explained that, over one million students in higher institutions across northern nigeria are benefiting from NELFUND.
He said, this has reduced school fees and other educational burdens on parents, particularly less privileged families.
He said, the president has approved the establishment of the University of Agriculture in Kirikasammma Local Government, the establishment of a Police College in Gwaram Local Government; a N1bn solar mini-grid for Federal University Dutse, and many other interventions to create an enabling environment for all children, regardless of their parents’ socio-economic background or geographical location, to have access to higher education.
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz added that the economic reforms introduced by President Tinubu have enabled the state to receive more resources, enabling Governor Umar Namadi to execute numerous developmental projects that uplift the lives of the Jigawa State electorate in all ramifications.
He therefore, called on the teeming Jigawa electorate not to let anyone deceive them with empty promises.
“They should be vigilant and re-elect President Bola Tinubu in the forthcoming 2027 general election, along with all APC candidates, for continuity in delivering the dividends of democracy and building a sustainable future for their children”.
Editing By Yusuf Zubairu
