Governor Uba Sani has pledged Kaduna State’s total support and loyalty to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election, citing what he described as the dividends of democracy the President has delivered to the state and the country at large.

The governor, who listed several projects executed by the Federal Government and those attracted to Kaduna State, spoke during a stakeholders’ engagement on the ongoing e-registration of All Progressives Congress (APC) members across the country.
Addressing Zone 2 stakeholders, Sani said Kaduna State was targeting 2.5 million members in the ongoing exercise because the APC had become the dominant party in the state.

He argued that his inclusive development model, in which projects are evenly spread across the state, as well as President Tinubu’s interventions in Kaduna, had triggered mass defections from opposition parties to the APC.
According to the governor, President Tinubu supported the Kaduna State Light Rail project with N1 billion, which he described as unprecedented in northern Nigeria.

He said no other subnational government, apart from Lagos State, had enjoyed such support for the execution of a light rail project anywhere in the country.
Sani said, “Only three weeks ago, I was in China, in the company of the Director General of the Nigeria-China Strategic Partnership, at the instance of President Bola Tinubu, who has also decided that Kaduna State would be the pilot state to embark on a major poultry project.”

He added, “The project will generate at least 350,000 jobs. Already, the Federal Government has approved $200 million for it and Kaduna State will have the biggest poultry project in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the groundbreaking will be done in the next three weeks.”

The governor further stated that the project would support about 10,000 direct and indirect small businesses, particularly small and medium-scale enterprises allied to poultry farming.

“Again, we must thank our leader, President Bola Tinubu, for approving the construction of the Mando to Birnin Gwari road, which is very critical, as well as the reconstruction of the Kwoi to Jama’a road,” he said.
Governor Sani also disclosed that several projects had been approved in partnership between the Kaduna State Government and the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajuddeen Abbas, in the current budget for Zone 1.
He noted that Zone 1, the northern senatorial district, had benefited more than any other zone in the state, adding that having Speaker Abbas had been a blessing.

The governor added that Zone 1 was also fortunate to have the Minister of Environment, Malam Balarabe Abbas Lawal, who, he said, had been supportive of Kaduna State.

“When you look at some of the major projects that we are embarking on under ACRESAL, addressing erosion and other climate issues, he has played a pivotal role in that regard,” Sani said.

He added, “In the next one or two months, we will be doing groundbreaking for one of the major projects in Zaria and Rigasa, totaling about N53 billion, courtesy of the support and effort of the Minister of Environment, Malam Balarabe Abbas.”
“So I can say that we are very lucky. We have people working for the Federal Government from our state who have been able to attract very important projects to Kaduna State,” he said.

Governor Sani further stated that with the projects executed by the state government and those attracted by President Tinubu, Kaduna State would rank among the leading states in the ongoing APC e-registration exercise.

Earlier, the governor had held similar engagements with stakeholders from Zone 2 on Saturday, comprising APC members from Kaduna North and Kaduna South, Chikun, Kajuru, Igabi, Birnin Gwari and Giwa local government areas.

On Sunday, he and senior government officials met with stakeholders from Zone 1, made up of Zaria, Sabon Gari, Soba, Makarfi, Kubau, Kudan, Ikara and Lere local government areas.

He also interacted with stakeholders from Zangon Kataf, Kachia, Jaba, Jema’a, Kaura, Kagarko and Sanga local government areas of Zone 3, the southern Kaduna senatorial district.