By Danzumi Ishaku
The Taraba state governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC Alh Sani Abubakar Danladi has promised to revive the local government administration in the state to bring governance and development closer to the people who he becomes the state governor.
Danladi made the promise in Bali local government area of the state on Tuesday while addressing the people as part of his tour of the central zone of the state.
He said that the current situation where local governments were run from the state capital by state administrators rather than the local government authorities was detrimental to the growth of the state.
“I have been in this system and I can tell you that there is so much that is desired. One of my top priorities would be to revive the local government administration in the state to that what is meant for them goes to them for development.
That is the only way we can bring development to the doorsteps of the people. This present situation where local governments are run from the state capital and council chairmen have no say in the management of their resources is totally retrogressive.”
Danladi promised to work hard to break the “walls of disunity created by government along religious and ethnic lines so that the people would see themselves as one and work towards collective progression rather than thinking along the lines of sectional interests.”
He further called on the youths of the state to eschew violence and embrace progress as crime would only help in frustrating the brilliant future that awaits them.
The APC chieftain lamented that, despite raising over 17 Billion Naira from the zone in the last three years through Madrid, the current administration in the state can not boast of any meaningful development in the zone and promised to make sure that all sections of the state experience even development.
