A former governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Mahmud Shinkafi, Senate Kabiru Marafa, and the incumbent member of the House of Representatives, representing Kaura-Namoda/Birnin-Magaji federal constituency, Comrade Aminu Sani-Jaji, on Thursday picked the governorship nomination forms of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Alhaji Shinkafi, who was accompanied by a large group of his supporters to the APC national secretariat in Abuja, said a new dawn was emerging on the horizon of Zamfara.
He said Zamfara State under a Shinkafi’s administration would be committed to creating massive and gainful employment.
“We are formidable with experience as we prepared for the future. We know those areas where we have natural comparative advantages to build a solid national and international agro-allied industry that will benefit the majority of Zamfara people,” he said.
The governorship aspirant also said that the North West geo-political zone could dominate the agricultural sector in the sub-region within the next five years.
He said the zone has all the potentials to dominate the agricultural economy of the region if new sciences were applied to agricultural production in tandem with the rise of agro-allied industrial projects.
He said agro-industrialization was the catalyst for a sustained economic liberation of the northern region.
Also speaking, Senator Marafa, who said that he was not an overly ambitious person by nature, said the unfolding events in Zamfara State and the attitude of the current government required the intervention of well-meaning individuals in the state.
He said the government of Zamfara State had failed going by the current security situation, adding that “it is time for him to pay his people back” by bringing succour, peace and rest of mind.
Senator Marafa, who said the adoption of direct primary for presidential election was an admission of the failure of the last congresses, stated that the party leaders considered the option to avoid a situation where President Muhammadu Buhari would be dislodged from office for being a product of ‘illegal delegates’ whose emergence was still being challenged in court.
He said with honesty and sincerity of purpose, the security challenges in Zamfara State that had led to the death of over 15,000 would be addressed.
In his remark, Comrade Sani-Jaji, who lamented the state of education, poverty rate, lack of implementation of minimum wage, promised to resolve the security challenges with five months if he becomes the governor of his home state.
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