The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Engr. Yakubu Danladi-Salihu, has stated his seven years within the state House of Assembly, together with his tenure as Speaker, have ready him for the calls for of governing the state.
Danladi-Salihu said this on Friday in Ilorin on the News Keg, a political engagement platform organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kwara State Council.
He stated his expertise within the legislature, significantly his participation within the state’s finances and appropriation processes, had given him a sensible understanding of Kwara’s improvement priorities, useful resource allocation and governance construction.
The APC candidate argued that the foremost infrastructure tasks executed underneath Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq emerged from appropriation processes by which the legislature performed a important function.
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Danladi-Salihu maintained that his years within the Assembly had uncovered him to the monetary and developmental wants of the state, in addition to the workings of presidency throughout sectors.
He additionally stated his legislative profession had taken him throughout Kwara, giving him first-hand information of the challenges going through communities throughout the state.
“There is hardly any ward in Kwara that I have not been to. I am a local boy. My interest is in all our local areas, and I intend to touch all these places,” he stated.
On grassroots improvement, the candidate cited interventions in his Ilesha/Gwanara constituency in Baruten Local Government Area, together with the set up of greater than 210 boreholes and the facilitation of highway infrastructure with assist from the state authorities.
He additional disclosed that his workplace facilitated the coaching of 300 vigilantes in partnership with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), citing the world’s proximity to the worldwide border as a significant safety concern.
Danladi-Salihu described his governorship ticket as a collective challenge for the individuals of Kwara, quite than a private ambition.
He was accompanied to the engagement by his operating mate, Hon. Seun Oguniyi Adato, who highlighted his private-sector background and described his partnership with Danladi-Salihu as one constructed on productive synergy.
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