The Katsina State Governor, Dikko Umaru Radda has alleged the opposition’s stance against the return of peace in the state to proclaim the All Progressives Congress-led administration as a failed government.
He explained that the “return of peace” in banditry-ravaged local government areas of the state had annoyed the opposition because they didn’t want his government to succeed.
Radda, who spoke Thursday in Danmusa, one of the bandit-infected local government areas, said farming and socio-economic activities returned in all the hitherto frontline local governments of the state.
The governor was in Danmusa in continuation of his local government tour across the 34 local government councils of the state to inspect projects and interact with people at the grassroots.
While addressing the critical stakeholders of the local government, Radda stressed that after over 10 years of battling with security challenges orchestrated by bandits, peace had returned to Danmusa.
Radda, who spoke extensively in Hausa language, did not mention the names of the individuals, but findings revealed that he was referring to opposition leaders who have been criticizing his security initiatives.
An indigene of Danmusa and leader of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the state, Dr. Mustapha Inuwa, has been criticising Governor Radda’s revolving security measures to curb banditry and other criminalities besetting the state.
Inuwa’s criticism and that of former Senator Ahmed Babba Kaita, might have aided the governor’s speech during the statewide tour, which has since been described by opposition as a 2027 campaign.
But Radda, who described the opposition as celebrants of killings and abductions in the state, said his government would not be deterred by their blackmails to fail Katsina people.
He said: “Some individuals are averse to witnessing the return of peace in Katsina, as they seek to proclaim the APC as a failed government; however, the APC-led government has come to stay.
“You will observe certain individuals, endowed with wisdom, education, and respect, yet blinded to governance, who seek to capitalise on violence to proclaim the government’s failure on radio stations.
“But if the government fails and you assume power, will you govern without the people if they are being killed? My primary concern is Katsina, not governance, and I shall continue to act in the best interest of the people of Katsina.”
He, therefore, called on the people of Danmusa Local Government to continue to be law-abiding citizens and shun any act capable of truncating the existing peace and development in the state.
Francis Sardauna in Katsina
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