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  • Don’t make the mistake to vote PDP in 2023 – Gov El-Rufai tells Kaduna Residents

    Don’t make the mistake to vote PDP in 2023 – Gov El-Rufai tells Kaduna Residents

    Governor Nasir El-Rufai has urged residents of the states not to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections.

    The governor made the call when he spoke at an empowerment program in the state today November 24. According to him, PDP will only destroy his good legacies if the party is voted into office in 2023. He added that the opposition party will also “drag the state and the entire country backward” if allowed to return to power.

    He urged the people to rally around and vote for the candidate he will anoint as his successor in 2023, asking them to trust him in his choice of who will be the next governor of Kaduna state.

    “Some people said that what we have done now cannot be reversed, wrong. A bad governor, a PDP governor can reverse this in six months.

    Don’t make the mistake of voting PDP back into office in 2023. If you do, things will go back to what they used to be. While we go through our process as APC and bring out a candidate and I endorse that candidate, please trust me that that person will be the better governor of Kaduna from 2023 and beyond” he said

    The governor accused the two former Senators of Kaduna North and Kaduna central, Shehu Sani and Suleiman Hunkuyi, of blocking the massive development in Kaduna State that would have surpassed the feat achieved by his administration which Kaduna people are now celebrating.

  • COVID-19: Kaduna family deserts home as returnee allegedly presents symptoms

    COVID-19: Kaduna family deserts home as returnee allegedly presents symptoms

    Some residents of Kurmi Kaduna Community in Igabi Local Government Area, Kaduna state, were on Wednesday, thrown into confusion after a Lagos-returnee presented feverish symptoms.

    The community members became more confused as family members of a 27-year-old man (names with held) ,who returned from Lagos on April 5, deserted their home after he (returnee) presented feverish symptom similar to that of Coronavirus.

    Malam Liman Hamsu, the Village Head of Kurmin Kaduna, told NAN that when the man displayed symptoms of high fever, his family members ran away from the house thinking he was having Coronavirus.

    “The family ran away when the suspect began vomiting and exhibiting symptoms of high fever.

    ”Thereafter, the entire community became tensed because all family members of the suspect ran away from him, thinking the man might have absconded from Lagos isolation center to take refuge in Kaduna,” Hamsu said.

    According to him, members of the community had to call the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and health representatives from Igabi LGA, who said that the symptoms had no correlation with COVID-19.

    ”After several calls to the NCDC, the Centre sent representatives to our community to see the patient’s situation.

    “Also, member of the health team from Igabi LGA came and confirmed that the suspected case was negative, without taking any sample,” he added.

    He then appealed to members of the family to return as the case had been confirmed negative, adding that only the return of the members would allay the fears of the entire community. (NAN)

  • Kaduna residents defy curfew, jog to keep shape

    Kaduna residents defy curfew, jog to keep shape

    Some Kaduna residents have taken advantage of the State Government’s imposed 24-hour curfew to curb Coronavirus pandemic spread, to get their bodies in shape.

    Some of them were seen on Tuesday by 6 a.m. Jogging and trekking while maintaining the social distancing restriction.

    The residents who spoke in separate interviews with our correspondent said that exercise was the only way to keep in shape and maintaining their sanity while the curfew lasts.

    Ms Jenifer Andrew, a banker said she goes out to jog or walk every morning in order to keep in shape.

    “This curfew has provided me the time to get outside my house to jog or walk,” she said.

    A Gym Instructor, Mr Michel Omale, said that with most of the gyms closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and social distance restriction, people were forced to jog outside.

    “The Coronavirus pandemic is limiting where people can go to.

    ”Gyms can become crowded so people go outside the streets for more privacy or nowadays to observe and keep social distancing,” he said.

    Omale said that people had been mindful of keeping the social distancing on the streets while jogging.

    “As I am jogging, I see that when people come around congested areas they move to the other side of the road,” he said.

    A resident in one of the Barnawa Estates, Mr Ehis Emmanuel, who was riding a bike along Barnawa road, said that the number of people out on the streets exercising was the largest he had ever seen on a weekday.

    “With more hours left for people in a day, exercise is a sure way to maintaining our sanity.

    ”To occupy my mind and time, l decided to start biking every day for a round trip of six kilometers.

    “I want to see how many kilometers I can cover on my bike before this coronavirus thing is over,” he said.

    Our correspondent reports that the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development had ordered immediate shutting down of sporting facilities within North West Zone of the state as a result of the fast-spreading Coronavirus.

  • Lockdown: Kaduna residents complain of hunger, demand food

    Some residents of Kaduna have expressed reservation over the stay-at-home order imposed on the state government, and alleged that starvation was setting in.

    A cross section of the residents, who spoke to Our Correspondent in separate interviews, said they could no longer go out in search of daily bread due to the lockdown.

    They also called on the state government to initiate food stimulus to ease their sufferings.

    Mr Nuhu Bala, a resident of Lokoja Road, Rigasa area of Kaduna, said he was into transport business but stopped due to the lockdown, adding that he had exhausted the food supplies in his home.

    Bala, however, commended the state government for the lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and called for palliative measures to assist the poor with food and medical supplies.

    Another resident, Muhammad Abubakar, a trader at the Central Market, said he suspended his businesses in compliance with the lockdown.

    “I am now feeding my family from my capital with no assistance from anywhere and I can not leave my children hungry.

    “I hope the government both at the federal and state levels will consider the situation being experienced by the masses and support them with food and other essential commodities,” he said.

    Sa’adatu Saidu, a 76-year-old woman, who resides at Abuja Road, Rigasa said that she and her husband had no means of earning due to illness.

    She said that her husband had stroke and could not go out while she is diabetic patient who depended on alms to survive.

    She urged government to distribute food to the poor and vulnerable at the grassroots to enable them feed their families.

    On his part, Mr Salisu Musa, a commercial tricycle operator and a father of eight urged government to relax curfew so that people could work for some hours to enable them fend for their families.

    “Tricycle riders were ordered to stop business even before the lockdown and there were no alternative means of livelihood; we are left with nothing, we only beg our family to be patient.

    “Prices of food items has also skyrocketed. A measure of Garri sold at N300 as against its old price of N90, while corn flour sold for N300 as against N190 per measure before the lockdown,” he said.

    Our Correspondent reports that Gov. Nasir El-Rufai had in a state broadcast on March 26, announced plans to procure food and other essential commodities to mitigate the effects of the lockdown in the state.

    The items would be distributed to community clusters in designated centres in rural and urban settlements in the state.