http://www.newsportng.com.ng As the 2023 presidential election draws closer, group under the auspices of Peoples Living With Disabilities, (PLWDs) Northwest zone, has pledged their total support for the candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubukar.
The group in their numbers, stormed Kaduna on Tuesday, said only Atiku and his Vice presidential candidate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, can salvage Nigeria from it’s decades of misrule.
Speaking at the event, the Director General, (DG) campaign Northwest, Senator Hayatudeen Gwarzo, who is also the chairman of people living with disabilities, in northwest zone, said the meeting is aimed to mobilize and sensitize their people on the need to embrace the candidacy of Atiku and other PDP candidates across the country.
Senator Hayatu disclosed that Atiku was able to convinced them the day he celebrated the world’s disability day with them and promised to give them give them 5% in his cabinet peradventure he emerged as Nigeria’s president in the February 2023 poll.
He said, “we are here to pledge our full support for the presidential candidate of the people’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alh. Atiku Abubukar as our next president because he is the only candidate that identify with us and promised to carry us along once he emerged as our next president.
“We appreciate his efforts to had invited us into his campaign council to ensure his victory and we are not going to let him down. We encourage our people to go to local government and units to make sure we canvass for support from our electorates so we can be able to deliver our unit to PDP.
“We believe in Atiku because he is the only one that knows our flight and even celebrated the world’s disability day with us. He promised us that when he wins, he will give five percent to people living with disabilities so there is no way we will not support such candidate from top to bottom.
Speaking with Journalists shortly after the event, the Kano state Coordinator, PLWDs Tudun-wada, Mr. Aminu Ahmed, said Kaduna is the heart of the North and as such, the group deemed it fit to capture the Center of learning so that other Northern states can follow suit.
In his remarks, the deputy director PLWDs Northwest, Mr. Ephraim Balarabe, noted that Nigerians are passing through a lot of hard times under the current administration of the ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC) adding that APC is campaigning for Atiku through the unfavorable policies that have brought pains to the average Nigerians.
While reiterating that only Atiku can rescue Nigeria as it’s next president, Ephraim called on PLWDs, including their families to come out and vote massively for PDP, adding that the government of PDP will give them the enabling environment to explore and improve the quality of their livelihood.
