According to the former governor, in less than twenty-four months to when the general election is scheduled, the people of Kaduna state are now aware of the differences in the leadership style of both parties....CONTINUE READING
Alhaji Yero added that it is now time for the people to decide what the next step should be. He said the people of Kaduna state are to decide whether the PDP’s years in governance were better than the eight years of the APC or not.
According to THE SUN NIGERIA, the PDP chieftain stated this during an interactive session with members of the press in respect to the general elections slated for 2023.
The former governor disclosed his intentions to run for the governorship of Kaduna State in the forthcoming general elections.
Alhaji Ramalan Yero was the governor of Kaduna state till 2015 when Mallam Nasir El-Rufai defeated him at the polls.
Fielding questions from journalists about his plans for the 2023 general elections, the former governor revealed details about his views.
In his words: “The people of Kaduna State have tested PDP in the last 16 years and now you have tested APC in eight years. Now you have seen the difference. PDP was there in 16 years, APC is just eight years and you have now seen the kind of situation that you are in.
“You should compare and see whether during PDP you are far better off or you are hardly better off. If you have better off during PDP, then you should know that the PDP is the best place for you and then go back to PDP and vote for PDP. If you feel that APC is far better than now with the situation that they are in, you have all tested it.
“My advice now is that people have lost their jobs, people have lost property, lost their businesses, lost their houses, and people are now living in fears. The kind of insecurity that we have now, in the next few years, a few months from now, if you don’t address it, it is giving people that are living in town to find it difficult to sleep.
“Nobody wants to come to Kaduna. Everybody is afraid. So, I will like to advise the people of Kaduna that they should look inwards; look for good people that they know that will lead them, not the people that will come and do the government of family and friends, not the people that will come and do the government of family and friends.
“So, that is my advice to the people of the state and so they should vote for PDP and then the PDP should give the people, the credible people that they will manage them and then help them out.
“I will contest the Governor of Kaduna, in 2023. Being that I was there before, I was the one that handed the mantle of leadership to the current administration. The situation that we are in now is something else.
“We know what was there. We know the challenges that we had. We know the effort that we had put in stabilizing the situation and then we also know what is currently happening.
“I felt that whoever that will come in now will come as a new person, as a layman – somebody who does not know what was there before, somebody who does not know what was there before, somebody who does not understand what is going on now and then he will find it difficult to take the real situation at hand and then improve it.”
The former governor said the people of Kaduna state should be careful about who is elected as the next governor.
He said he has the goodwill and experience to add value to the state through good governance and purposeful leadership.
Alhaji Ramalan Yero pointed out that having served as governor of the state, he knows how best to meet the needs of the people and to ensure that they enjoy the dividends of good governance.
He added that he has decided to run for the governorship so he could complete some of the plans he had during his first tenure as governor of Kaduna state.