Mallam Saliu Mustapha, the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Kwara Central, has said that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari had greatly assisted Kwara State and other states in the country to resolve the infrastructural deficits facing them.
Mustapha made this revelation about state of the nation ahead of the president’s visit to the state for the campaign rally of the presidential candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu, scheduled to hold on Tuesday.
Mustapha commended the Nigerian leader for his consistency and commitment to addressing problematic issues he inherited from the previous governments.
“We, here, in Kwara State can testify to the dualization of the strategic Ilorin – Jebba-Mokwa road, which was only at 15.9% completion by the time the administration assumed office but today the road that links the South West to the North West is 100% completed and it is now easy for trucks moving agricultural produce to ply that route”, he said.
He added that the government of Buhari gave priority to the development of infrastructure, by also developing the socioeconomic status of the country.
The Turaki of Ilorin (Mustapha) also commended the president for initiating and executing various agricultural and National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIPs).
“Indeed, so much has been said about the infrastructure being put in place including the ongoing rail projects, but some of us believe that his efforts at diversifying the economy will be his major legacy.
“The ongoing agriculture revolution through massive infusion of funds through Central Bank’s Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) has now seen the country overtake Egypt as Africa’s largest producers of rice.
“Under the programme launched by President Buhari in November 2015, more than N1 trillion has been disbursed to over 4.8million smallholder farmers of 21 different commodities across the country including Kwara State to cultivate over 4m hectares of farmland.
“Our state is similarly benefitting from the Federal government’s Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) in
partnership with the African Development Bank through which agro processing centres are to be established with basic infrastructure such as water, electricity and roads as well as facilities for skills training in 7 states.
“All these and a lot more are some of the achievements of the APC-led Buhari administration and we can also see the evidently good work of our outstanding Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq”, APC Kwara Central Senatorial candidate added.
The senatorial candidate expressed confidence about the victory of the party’s presidential flagbearer, Tinubu in the state next month.
“With the leadership of Governor AbdulRazaq, we will continue to take Asiwaju’s campaign to the nooks and crannies of the state and we are convinced that our great party will record a landslide victory in the state.
“We are solidly behind Tinubu’s Presidency, and like we did in 2019, we will emerge victorious at the poll.
“The APC in Kwara has, in the last four years, delivered on most of its promises, and we will do much better in the coming years”, he said.
He further called on the citizens of the state to welcome the president on his first visitation to the state since 2019.
