I FEAR NO JUJU - JIGAWA GOV.

Gov. Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State
says he is not afraid of charms and
will conduct the Ondo APC primary
election transparently.
Abubakar said this while briefing
newsmen in Abuja after being
sworn in as the Chairman of All
Progressives Congress (APC) Ondo
Primary Election Committee.
He said: ”Free and fair election will
solve the problem. If they believe
we are free, fair and transparent,
they will accept the result.
”Well in the first place, I don’t
believe in juju so certainly I am
surely not afraid.
”I don’t know of any imposition,
my duty there is to be free, fair
and transparent and I think that is
the only thing that will help the
party.”
He said the issue of identifying the
delegates was important and their
international passport, permanent
voter card or national identity card
would suffice.
”Any one of the three will be able
to solve the identification
problem,” he said.
Abubakar advised other governors
to cut expenditure in order to
overcome the embarrassment of
owing staff salaries.
He said once the workers were paid
and happy, any state could move
forward and be productive.
”In Jigawa, we are not owing
salaries. In fact we always pay on
the 25th of every month whether
the federation account comes in or
not.
”We are not owing either local
government or state salaries and
we are not owing pension. In fact
pensioners collect on the 13th or
15th.
”We are not owing gratuity as well.
We are really very clean as far as
staff welfare is concerned and even
this week or next week, we’ll be
paying the annual leave grants as
promised.
”The magic is being prudent. You
just have to do what you think is
good for the people.
”Paying workers is of paramount
importance and we have to
sacrifice all what we do to be sure
to pay our workers because
workers have to remain focused.
”We do a lot of cost savings and
employ cost saving techniques to
reduce expenditure of the
government.
”For instance in the government
house, the expenditure has been
reduced by as much as 80 per cent,
while general overhead has been
reduced as much as 47 per cent.
”The security vote has been
reduced as much as 87 per cent. We
use only 13 per cent of what they
normally used.
“So, all those expenditure that have
no direct bearing to the common
man have been reduced drastically
to give room for service to the
people.”
The APC Primary Election
Committee is made up of Dr Bruce
Ugbide, Rep. Hamma Ali, Prince M.
Martin and Mr Mohammed Lawal.
The Election Appeals Committee is
headed by Mrs Helen Bendeha,
with Alhaji Musa Umar and Ms
Nicky Ejezie as members. (NAN)


Source :naijaloaded
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE