From :Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
In the face of the growing feud between the incumbent Governor of Kaduna State and his predecessor, Nasir El-Rufai, the State Executive Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has passed a vote of confidence on Governor Uba Sani.
The Party’s SEC at the Meeting held at the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Hall, Murtala Square Kaduna, said the confidence vote became imperative following the numerous achievements recorded by the Governor within his one year in office.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, former Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, and the National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the Party, Hon.Garba Datti Babawo declared their loyalty to Governor Sani as the leader of the Party.
The Zonal Vice Chairman while addressing the well-attended meeting, moved the motion for a confidence vote on the Governor, while the motion was seconded by former House of Representatives of Chikun Federal Constituency, Hon. Yakubu Umar Barde, while the party executives unanimously adopted the motion.
Addressing the meeting, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas said, that Governor Uba Sani is the leader of the APC in Kaduna state, therefore all stakeholders of the party must support him.
He said, “I want to assure you that both myself and the Governor are on the same page and we will do everything possible to ensure that the welfare of our party members and the Executives are given priority.
“I want to use this opportunity to congratulate our Governor on his one year in office with a lot of achievements especially infrastructural development among others. I believe in the next three years, it will be more successful and impactful in the lives of our people.
“I want to urge you to maintain the political tempo. I talk about unity in Kaduna State, the unity of our party in Kaduna State, I believe after the last election, so many things went wrong, and I call on our great party to please use this opportunity to heal the wounds inflicted during the last elections.
“Try to calm whoever feels aggrieved during the last election. I believed we have no better time to reconcile, to forgive each other than now”.
He however urged the APC to use whatever process and machinery to commence the process of reconciliation to commence with immediate effect.
