Uba Sani to ADC, NDC: Stop using social media against APC, go out for campaign

Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has challenged opposition parties to reach out to the people directly through campaign rallies, instead of reacting to what the All Progressives Party (APC) is doing on social media.

Sani said this in an interview with TVC in Kaduna on Sunday night.

The governor said: “If you are campaigning to win elections, you have to go out and meet with the people.

“The only party that I see reaching out through town hall meetings, other than our party, is probably APM. I’m surprised. I have seen them going round. But you cannot say the same with ADC and NDC.

“Are they reaching out to the public, particularly the downtrodden? The answer is no. Have they come out with any strategy on their campaign? The answer is no. You can’t run a campaign by reacting to what another party is doing. Go and do your own campaign.”

He noted that instead of canvassing for the people’s support, the opposition is using digital technology like Artificial Intelligence and doctoring pictures and posting on social media to disparage APC.

“We are the only party that is reaching out, talking to the people. So, whether the opposition decides to come together or not, it’s not our business,” Sani added.

Sani recalled that the APC National Chairman, Prof.  Nentawe Yilwatada, had promised that the North will give President Bola Tinubu 70 per cent of its votes, promising that Kaduna State will give a higher percentage.

“In Kaduna State, allowing any candidate to even get 25% of the votes is a failure on our side,” he stressed.

The governor cited various projects that the Tinubu administration has sited in Kaduna State in the last three and half years, which he said the people never dreamt of, adding that “now we can see development, we can see intervention, we can see support.”

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He commended the president for handing over the Ahmadu Bello Stadium to Kaduna State Government, promising to re-construct it to a FIFA-standard 33,000 seating-capacity stadium.

Sani also highlighted the reconstruction of the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari 123 km road, saying N178 billion has been released for the project, which he said had been abandoned for more than 40 years.

Sani also thanked Tinubu for the ongoing reconstruction of the Zaria-Soba-Kambuwa road and the proposed Kaduna metropolitan light rail project, adding that $865 million has been approved for the rail project, while the contractor, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, has been mobilised with $300 million.

Sani also disclosed that Kaduna State now has four federal universities, including the upgraded Federal University of Education, Zaria, the Federal University of Applied Sciences, Kachia, and the proposed Shehu Musa Yar’adua University of Petroleum Studies, Kaduna, as well as Kaduna Polytechnic which has been converted to Federal University of Technology.

According to him, the only way that the people of Kaduna State can reciprocate this kind gesture is to vote for Tinubu massively in 2027.