Ahead of 2027 governorship election in Borno state, a group under the aegis of Advocate for African Development Foundation (AADF), has called on all stakeholders in Borno state to ensure that former Accountant General of the Federation, Dr. Muhammed Kyari Dikwa, succeeded the incumbent governor, Babagana Zulum.
The group said it would be a disaster if an illiterate or someone without requisite experience was allowed to succeed Prof Zulum who had performed creditably well in the state.
Addressing a press conference Wednesday in Abuja, National Coordinator of the foundation, Aaron Mike Odeh, described Dr. Dikwa as a thorough-bred technocrat with wide experience in human capacity building and community development.
The group said the press conference was organised to appreciate the humanitarian gesture of Dr. Dikwa across the country.
Odeh said the former permanent secretary Federal Ministry of Finance, through his Al-Ansar foundation, had built a private university in Maiduguri, where thousands of Nigerians, especially, indigenes of Borno state were on scholarship both at the local, national and international levels.
“The philanthropic work he has carried out via the Al-Ansar foundation which he founded many years ago to render humanitarian services to Nigerians across board and especially in the 19 northern states. Prominent among them which made our organisations to stage this timely press briefing are: creations of security jobs for over twenty thousand Nigerians through Al-Ansar Security guards.
“Already, some of the private security personnel has been posted to provide security of lives and properties at Niger state, Adamawa, Bauchi, Taraba, Borno, Yobe, Lagos, Gombe, Kano states, among others.
“Al-Ansar Foundation which he established has also made significant impacts through the construction of schools in Abuja, Suleja in Niger, Kaduna, Kano, Yobe and Borno states.
“Al-ansar Foundation has distributed thousands of bags of rice, grains and other food items as palliatives to Nigerians and in particular Borno state indigenes to cushion the hunger effect. The place of spirituality wasn’t also exempted in view of the fact that Al-ansar foundation has built so many mosque in Borno, Kano, Niger, Yobe etc.
