Yusuf Markus Sawa from Gwoza Local Government and Abdullahi Muhammed Sheikh, both Chairman and Secretary respectively of the Borno Councillors Forum told journalists in Maiduguri yesterday, that the 312 councillors were determined to remain in the APC with Governor Kashim Shettima to move the party forward.
“As far as 2015 is concerned in Borno State, Governor Kashim Shettima’s landmark of people-oriented projects executed during this difficult period, are his pass mark for another second term and APC is the party we’ve all chosen,” Sawa said.
He stated that the APC would continue to hold sway in Borno as against the PDP because the latter has not been on ground in the state for long.
He reasoned that as the representatives of the people at the local government level, councillors were closer to the people than other party chieftains. “We are the ones that are at the grassroots and we know that the only person that can lead us to our promised land is Governor Shettima. That is why the entire 312 councillors that represent the 3,993 electoral units in the state are showing 100 per cent support for him,” he said.
Sawa said the governor had been developing infrastructure and education in the state contrary to the notion in many quarters that development might be crippled by more than three years of insurgency in the area. “The governor has identified education as the best solution to the lingering insurgency and development for Borno people. That was why he invested so much in education by sponsoring Borno indigenes to study abroad, support girl-child education, increase study allowances for medical students and above all, the personal donation of mega buses to enhance free transportation of students from their homes to schools in Maiduguri and its environs,” he said.
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