Igbawase Ukumba in Lafia
Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday led a high-powered All Progressives Congress (APC) delegation to Lafia for the get together’s presidential marketing campaign rally, urging voters in Nasarawa State to ship a straight-ticket victory for the get together within the 2027 basic election.
Shettima, who represented President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was joined at Lafia Square by APC National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas.
The rally, which varieties a part of early mobilization actions for the 2027 polls within the North-central, drew get together leaders, members of the National Assembly, APC governors and hundreds of supporters from throughout Nasarawa State.
Addressing the gang, Shettima mentioned voting for Tinubu and different APC candidates will translate into extra dividends of democracy for the folks of the state and the nation.
He mentioned Nasarawa has benefited immensely from reforms on the centre, which had led to huge infrastructure improvement not simply within the state however throughout the North-central zone and the nation at giant.
He cited examples of such tasks, together with the Lafia bypass linking the state to Benue and the Nasarawa-Plateau-Bauchi-Gombe freeway undertaking, whose groundbreaking happened just lately.
He mentioned the Tinubu administration has positioned Nasarawa on the centre of its Renewed Hope Agenda by means of investments in highway infrastructure, training and stable minerals improvement, and would maintain the momentum if given one other mandate.
He known as for uniform voting for the get together throughout all ranges.
“APC from top to bottom, APC from bottom to top. We do not want a situation where they say vote for the president and not the governor, or vote for the governor and not the president, or the senator, or the House of Assembly. We want APC straight!” Shettima declared.
In his remarks, APC National Chairman Prof. Yilwatda, mentioned Nasarawa stays strategic to the get together’s electoral calculations within the North-central and counseled get together stakeholders within the state for his or her unity and group.
Also talking, Speaker Abbas mentioned the connection between the National Assembly and the Executive has by no means been higher, noting that the synergy has resulted within the passage of 78 payments in three years in help of the Renewed Hope Agenda.
The rally was additionally attended by Senator Ahmed Wadada, whose supporters chanted his identify throughout the occasion, alongside different federal and state lawmakers, members of the Progressive Governors Forum, and APC stakeholders from throughout the 13 native authorities areas of the state.
