Chairman, Jigawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon Aminu Gumel, has declared that his party has fulfilled all the promises made to the Jigawa State people during 2015 and 2019 and therefore no vacancy for a “failed party” like PDP in 2023.
The APC chairman made the declaration while speaking to newsmen during a “Media Engagement Forum” organized by the state Correspondents Chapel.
He explained that the APC government has succeeded in executing a minimum of one project in every community across the 27 local government areas of the state.
The chairman noted that in the area of empowerment, the state government has empowered over 250,000 youths, women and others in their own jobs of choice for poverty eradication and wealth creation.
“160,000 under-privileged persons are currently receiving N5,000 monthly under the federal government ‘Cash Transfer’ while over 8,000 women engaged as cooks for feeding about 950,000 pupils in the state,” he said.
He added that in the area of infrastructure, the APC-led government has built over 1,670km roads to facilitate the movement of goods and services for economic growth and social development.
“For education in the last six years, we built and renovated over 5,000 classrooms, established over 250 new primary, junior and senior secondary schools to ensure access to education for all children in the state.
“Since his assumption to office, Governor Badaru has been allocating funds to health sector above Abuja Declaration average, this enables our the government to establish over 200 functional hospitals across our political wards, upgrade about 10 hospitals to the general hospital, constructed three specialist hospitals and one hospital,” the chairman declared.
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