A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has promised to tackle insecurity in the country if elected the president in 2019.
Kwankwaso made the pledge on Friday in Makurdi when he led other members of the Kwankwasiyya Movement to pay a visit to the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom.
He asked Benue people to vote for peace and good governance come 2019 general elections.
Kwankwaso stated that the PDP had credible, tested and trusted candidates and called on Benue electorate to ignore money bags but vote only those who will ensure their peace and security.
“I’m sure the Benue people will vote for peace, good education, good agriculture and everything good can only be found in PDP,” he said.
According to him, the country had enough funds to use for the protection of its citizens but most of it ends up for private security.
”My desire is for us to continue to live in peace. It is only when there is peace that development would thrive in our society. I will ensure that the security agencies are trained and retrained to be abreast of current security techniques so as to tackle insecurity.
”We came to congratulate Ortom for defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to his former party, the PDP. Having been in PDP for 16 years and APC for three years, we discovered that there was no comparison and the best thing was to go back to PDP
”You did the right thing for defecting. Everyday people learn new things as events unfold. Today PDP is wiser than it was in the past years. The party is aiming towards success. It has learnt its lesson.
”I encourage you my members to give the Benue PDP maximum support in order to clinch all the elective positions in the state and at the federal level.
”Membership of my political movement cut across all political divide because they believe in my antecedents both at the grassroots, state and federal level,” he said.
Ortom welcome Kwankwaso and hailed him for offering to serve and fix a country that was heavily divided
Ortom lamented that Nigeria had become a country where lawlessness was the order of the day.
According to him, cows were preferred to human beings and a country that has become a laughing stock in the committee of nations.
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He therefore vowed that come 2019 “we are going to retire some people from politics. We say no to godfatherism and yes to good governance.”
Ortom assured the presidential aspirant that if the PDP would give him nomination he might not need to come to Benue for campaigns because the state had been taken over to PDP.
He said that the party was working assiduously in order to get a leadership that would unite the people.
Earlier, the Coordinator, Kwankwasiyya Movement in Benue, Engr. Nathaniel Alaaga, said that the movement had registered 650,000 people in the state.
