Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state on Monday said that his re-election in the next year governorship election is almost a done deal.
This was even as he said despite the risks he had taken on his path to make Kaduna great again.
The said though, getting re-elected as the governor of the state is not paramount in his agenda, but doing the right thing.
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El-Rufai stated this while delivering his address at the 2018 National Council On Finance and Economic Development (NACOFED) conference holding in Kaduna on Monday.
He said his administration in the past three and half years undertook far-reaching reforms in the education, economic and health sectors with outstanding results.
According to the governor, his immediate and utmost priority is to put the state on the right track and sound footing, while his achievements and reforms in all sectors will naturally take care of his re-election to consolidate on the achieved successes.
He said “being re-elected is not important. What is important is doing the right thing and posterity will judge us. From all indications, from everything I have seen because we call regularly, we are very scientific, we don’t guess in the dark.
“In spite of all the risks we have taken and all the people we are supposed to have upset, the election on the second of March, 2019 as far as Kaduna State is concerned, it is almost a done deal.” He said.
In the economic sector, he disclosed that his administration has created lots of jobs and empowered the women folks with soft loan with plans to do more going forward.
He also informed that plans are under way to recruit no fewer than 3000 health workers to further boost the health sector.
On the ease of doing business, the governor said, before he took over the mantle of leadership, Kaduna state occupied the twentieth position in ranking on ease of doing business in 2014, “but as at 2018, Kaduna State occupies the first position in the ease of doing business”.
In the area of security and Judiciary, he disclosed that his administration has so far hired 75 lawyers to boost the state judiciary sector, just as a said, his administration has removed the tenure system for directors and permanent Secretaries to open doors for young people.
The 3-day NACOFES conference organised by the Federal Account Allocation Committee in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Finance is expected to among other paper presentations look into alternative sources of revenue generation outside oil.
Mr Ben Akabueze, director general Budget office of the federation, Mr Shettima Umar Abba Gana. Ag. Chairman, Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, Tue Mab Lee, Senior Economist, World Bank Group, Mr. Asishana Okauru Esq.director general Nigerian Governors Forum and Mr Tunde Abdulkareem FAAC Post Mortem Consultant all gave goodwill messages at the opening ceremony.
Sure
Meaning that u have almost completed paying bribe to the inec chairman to rig u in again in the next election
Fake master planner
are u sure as evil as u are?
based on perfected rigging strategy by apc with service chiefs
All rigging channels is intact abi? And Allah will close every corner u will failed woefully
Bros dis one election never u don say almost done deal that must there is something u know which we don’t know
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I have never seen a stupid mentally ill idiot like El-Rufai
Let’s hear from Shehu Sani before we can conclude
Election is not won on the pages of newspaper, so we live to see by God’s grace.
Just print the prepared result
With INEC in your pocket
You’re deceiving yourself.
Is true
Stupid man. People are dying, you are talking of re- election
*FIVE (5) REASONS WHY PRESIDENT MUHAMMED BUHARI WILL WIN 2019 GENERAL ELECTION*
They are those who say he’s failed so woefully, » a second term is well beyond his and the APC’s grasp. They are those who beg to differ, telling everyone who cares to listen that Buhari is still the best thing to happen to this country since sliced bread.
For all the hoopla over Buhari’s perceived ‘incompetence’ out there, the man is on the cusp of getting re-elected and here’s why:
1. *Registered voters in geopolitical zones*
Out of the 73,944,312 registered voters across Nigeria, as of January 2018 , » the Northwest had a total of 18,505,984 voters while the Southeast had 8,293,093.
The North central had 10,586,965 registered voters, while the North east zone had 9,929,015. The Southwest had the second highest number of registered voters with 14,626,800.
The South south as a whole had 11,101,093 registered voters.
Look at those numbers again and it begins to hit you—the APC strongholds of Southwest and North, have the highest number of registered voters. The Southeast and South South where anti-Buhari sentiments are pretty strong, are still playing catch-up.
For all our social media rants, when the North votes, it often votes big. Ask Kano.
If the North and Southwest settle for Buhari again, the smart money is on him getting re-elected.
2. *There is no opposition*
The PDP has become a joke since it lost the center in 2015. The party spent two years trying to put its house in order » after Goodluck Jonathan got trounced by Buhari.
My big brother in this business, Simon Kolawole, captured it all in his latest Sunday column:
“PDP, as presently constituted, is still the strongest opposition platform. But its brand image is not sparkling. After overcoming the storm-in-a-tea-cup internal imbroglio which many swore had the hand of APC, the PDP is now perceived as the property of one or two Governors.
“Meanwhile, the SDP has been telling us that Governors and senators will defect
The devil himself