Sit up, Zamfara is grounded, PDP tells Gov Matawalle
By IBRAHIM KANOMA, Gusau
The Zamfara State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the state governor, Mohammed Matawalle, to sit up and save the state from total collapse, as it said the state was being grounded by his ‘carefree’ attitude towards the problem confronting it.
The call was made by deputy chairman of the party, Prof. Kabiru Jabaka, while briefing newsmen at the party’s secretariat in Gusau, Monday on the state of the state.
He said, “Zamfara has suffered several banditry attacks, kidnappings, payment of ransom to bandits yet the governor is displaying carefree attitude to the suffering of the rural people who are at the receiving end.”
Jabaka expressed dismay that all socio-economic activities have collapsed including agricultural activities, which the state is known for, “yet the governor finds pleasure in traveling to Niger Republic to watch wrestling competition while the state is burning on daily basis without government concerned.”
He further said that schools in Zamfara had been closed indefinitely since last year with no sign when they would be reopened, considering the importance of education to the state.
The PDP chieftain said since the coming this administration of Governor Bello Matawalle, he could not boast of a single capital project in the state and appealed to him to either sit up and face governance for the remaining time left or resign.
The DEFENDER reports that the Zamfara State PDP eently elected former Military Administrator of Nasarawa State, Col Bala Wande, as its Chairman.
