{"id":11268,"date":"2022-03-23T05:57:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=11268"},"modified":"2022-03-23T05:57:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:57:51","slug":"2023-guber-race-our-leader-governor-el-rufai-has-no-preferred-candidate-dattijo-he-has-not-endorsed-any-guber-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=11268","title":{"rendered":"2023 Guber Race: Our Leader,\u00a0 \u00a0Governor\u00a0 \u00a0El- Rufai has no Preferred Candidate &#8211; Dattijo   &#8230; he has not endorsed any guber candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">2023 Guber Race: Our Leader,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Governor\u00a0 \u00a0El- Rufai has no Preferred Candidate &#8211; Dattijo<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8230; he has not endorsed any guber candidate<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Zainab Tanimu<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">One of the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial aspirants in Kaduna state, the Commissioner for Planning and Budget Commission, Muhammad Abdullahi Dattijo has debunked the news going the rounds that Governor Nasir El- Rufai has endorsed an aspirant as preferred candidate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dattijo disclosed this at the APC secretariat on Tuesday when he formally declared his intention to succeed his principal come 2023 election as he\u00a0 presented his six points agenda for governance if elected into office.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Commissioner, a former Chief of staff to Governor El-Rufai<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0noted that his years of service in the state executive council since 2015 and that of CoS to the Governor, has exposed him to the fact that it is not a child&#8217;s play governing a state such as Kaduna.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">His stewardship under El-Rufai he said has given him the opportunity to understudy and understand the nitty-gritty of governance.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Opening up , he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;To be honest, with you our leader and the state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai tried his best and raised the bar in terms of providing infrastructural development and good governance. That is why the state need a credible person with competence to lead it in 2023 .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Therefore, we need to be careful in making a choice that whoever becomes the next governor is someone that is well experienced and educationally sound.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cOur leader, the Governor has no preferred candidate. He has given all of us his blessing and asked us to go and seek support of the people, then at the end agree within ourselves, (the aspirants) to have a consensus candidate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe APC gubernatorial aspirant noted that the ruling party must be returned to power so as to continue with the Governor El-Rufai&#8217;s policies and programmes of developing the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Presenting his six point agenda later at a press conference, Dattijo listed\u00a0 security of Kaduna by investing in people and technology, rural transformation by connecting rural economies to Agriculture and Solid minerals as well as Urban infrastructure as his topmost priorities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Others are building a smarter technologically advanced state, investing in the people by investing in health, education and youth development and lastly attracting\u00a0 local\u00a0 and\u00a0 International\u00a0 Finance\u00a0 for Development by working\u00a0 with\u00a0 development partners\u00a0 across the globe to drive the achievement of\u00a0 the Sustainable Development Goals and ensure no demographic is left behind.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 Guber Race: Our Leader, \u00a0Governor\u00a0 \u00a0El- Rufai has no Preferred Candidate &#8211; 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