The Kaduna State Igbo Community Welfare Association has endorsed the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Senator Uba Sani, ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

Speaking at a stakeholders meeting in Kaduna on Sunday, the Legal Adviser of the association, Valentine Ewuzie, said “we have analysed and assessed all the candidates and we can here and now, without mincing words, assure you that you are our candidate.”

Ewuzie described Sani as the most competent and qualified candidate amongst all those jostling to be governor of Kaduna State, “given his spectacular performance at the upper legislative chamber.”

Ewuzie, who also described Sani as a friend of the Igbos, said the lawmaker has shown that he knows the Igbos very well, “by saying that we are the most organised set of people.”

“That is an apt description of the Igbos; and being the most organised, we are going to employ it into making sure that you emerge as the next governor of this state,” he added.

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He recalled that when the Igbos were given quit notice from the North in 2017, Governor Nasir El-Rufai and Sani played pivotal roles in repudiating the pronouncement.

Ewuzie stated that the governor and the senator, at that time the Political Adviser to El-Rufai, met with Igbo leaders and assured them of their safety.

“It is also not in doubt that Kaduna state under your watch and the watch of His Excellency, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, is the only state that abolished the settler/indigene dichotomy in Nigeria as a whole.

‘“And you have given key roles to professionals and most especially the teachers in Kaduna state, by recruiting from all states of the federation on merit, without minding where they come from,” he said.

On his part, Sani implored the Igbos to take their destiny in their hands by using their numerical strength to vote for the right candidates, promising to be fair to all the residents of the state if elected as governor.

The APC gubernatorial candidate also promised to make an Igbo person as a commissioner, saying the appointed individual will be the liaison between the government and the Igbo community.

He added that arrangement will be more effective than using friends and acquaintances whenever the government wants to reach out to them.

The Star