The Kano state governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Bashir Ishaq Bashir, has described the eight years of President Muhammedu Buhari as a waste and disappointment to the teeming masses.
He said the country is being bedeviled by insecurity, armed banditry and kidnapping, which has been turned into lucrative avenues, while million of people were wallowing in abject poverty in the past eight years.
According to him, “the downtrodden masses are tired of this administration, because to them, it has brought untold suffering, while few disgruntled elements were enjoying.”
He then accused the political leaders of not having the interest of the people at heart.
This is just as he said that his party has concluded plans to send Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and Ambassador Aminu Wali to political retirement in 2023.
While speaking on plans of his party, the LP gubernatorial candidate said, “Human development is our priority. It is only when you develop people that you can develop and sustain a good environment”.
Alhaji Bashir, while commenting on the problem being encountered by pensioners, condemned the level of apathy displayed by leaders and how unconcerned about their difficulties they are.
He described such leaders as being inhuman in their actions saying, “he is a thief, he is a rogue, he that does not pay people their rights as and at when due”.
He, however , disclosed that if elected governor, he will ensure that people are paid their entitlements, citing that the presidential candidate of his party did not leave office as a governor until he ensured every pensioner, salary earner and contractor is paid all his entitlements.
According to him, his campaign team are made up professionals who have the blueprints to bring back the lost glory of Kano as the commercial nerve of the North.
“In the last 20 years, we have leaders who came into power unprepared. Our leaders do not prioritise the priorities of the people. We will make sure that Kano is economically viable,” he stated.
He further stated that, “in every society, and in times of great difficulties and challenges, there rises a group of committed and like-minded individuals who collective resolve to tackle the sum total of the monumental economic, social and moral decay of their society.
“These are men and women with a vision of what their society should and shouldn’t be. People of strong moral authority whose commitment to service to the people is never in doubt. Men and women who sacrifice their personal comforts for the sake of their people.”
He also described as unfounded insinuations the presidential candidate of his party, Mr. Peter Obi, is not popular in North, insisting that the LP will pull surprises in Kano and the entire North with the level of ground the party is gaining.