A governorship aspirant in Niger State, Alhaji Umar Sanda Abdullahi has said that he will abide by any position taken by his party as regard to consensus candidate.
Alhaji Umar Sanda noted that the party is greater than an individual, stating that if the party decided that concesus candidate should emerge, he will for the success of the party, abide by the position of the party in the over all interest of the party at the general election.
Addressing Journalists at a news briefing in Minna at the weekend, the governorship aspirant maintained that his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is greater than an individual and “I will honourably abide by whatever position they arrived at as regard to the concesus candidate and I know I will be the concesus candidate.”
His declaration to aspire to the governorship position of Niger State was his desire to reposition the State towards harnessing the agricultural potential abound in the to improve the revenue base of the state.
According to him, Niger State deserves a highly committed person that is both willing and able to mitigate the current difficulties and move the State forward agriculturally and developmentally towards improving the revenue base of the state and create job opportunities to the teaming unemployed graduates in the State.
“And to be able to accomplish this, in my simple opinion, the leadership must have a good background and genuine interest in Agriculture to cash in on our agro- allied competitive advantage, leverage on it to propel our economy to prosperity.”
In addition to this premium quality, the State also desire a leader that posses vast experience in entrepreneurship, a cognitive understanding of the plight of the rural dwellers and a genuine acquittance with contemporary urban renewal concepts and communal governance”, he asserted.
He observed that Niger State is richly endowed with both industrious human and abundant natural resources” and going by the enormous goodwill and authority there in the office of the governor, it will take one’s ability and sincerity of purpose to galvanize necessary resources and institutions to propel the State to the path of sustainable development”.
He noted that with the shackle of poverty among the vast majority of the people both in the rural and urban settings, it was duty-bound on him, if voted into office in 2023, to stem the ugly trend, stressing that by bringing to bear his entrepreneurial experience to enhance both individual and collective welfare and prosperity, “of our people in a well secured environment.”
He insisted that with his conviction, he decided to engage in a wide and lengthy consultations with citizens of different backgrounds, experiences and opinions over a period of times, stating that the encouraging and frank submission that came out of the consultation has further strengthened “my determination to actually come out to offer myself in service to my people and my land”.
