Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City
A presidential aspirant on the platform
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso, Monday
promised to replicate his developmental strides in Kano State to the
entire country.
Kwankwanso who was in Benin City,
capital of Edo State to seek the support of the PDP delegates ahead of
the party’s primaries slated for next month, said he achieved a lot when
he was governor of Kano State from 1999 to 2003, and 2011 to 2015,
especially in the areas of education, infrastructure development, youth
and women empowerment.
In the area of education, the two-time
governor said under his administration, a total of 2, 600 students of
Kano State origin were sponsored to obtain Doctorate Degrees in 14
foreign universities as well as universities in the country.
Acording to him, the state dominates other states by having the highest the number of lectures in the North-west.
This, he said, was done alongside
building of infrastructure to the extent that Kano is the only state
with two universities – Kano State University of Technology, and
Northwest University, all built when he was governor.
He said in his first and second four
years as governor, he never borrowed a Kobo because he displayed
prudence and capacity to confront all the challenges.
Kwankwanso further said one of the
things that kept him going during his tenure was that he did not collect
security vote of any kind.
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