The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Nasarawa state has urged the state government to concentrate on fighting poverty, banditry and kidnapping in order to secure lives and property as well as improve on the standard of living of the people.
This was contained in a statement signed by the state chairman of the party, Mr Adams Nyisana, and made available to journalists Wednesday.
Nyisana said the party remained the people’s choice for change, security, democracy and development in the state, while urging APGA supporters to continue to be law abiding for development thrive.
The chairman said the prevailing hardships in the state would continue to strengthen the party membership and support base across party lines.
This, he said, would change the situation if APGA secured power in subsequent elections in the state in order to improve on the standard of living of the people.
The statement said, after the 2019 election, we returned to God and the people continued to put our case before them.
“The people in anger continued to follow APGA and her candidate, Labaran Maku, former minister of Information, who is also a former deputy governor of Nasarawa state.
“Given the general collapse of governance, unpaid arrears of salaries, pensions and gratuity across the state; and the intense suffering in the rural and semi urban areas, banditry, kidnapping and violent crimes, it was not surprising that in 2019, even those who didn’t follow APGA in 2015 turned to APGA,” the statement read in part.
Nyisana said the ruling party in the state has devised strategies to use the present severe economic pressures on every family across the state to dangle poisoned carrots on APGA members to defect to the APC.
“We understand that after months of deploying the entire government machinery to cajole targeted APGA members, they went round to promise appointments and other pledges to anyone that defects from APGA to the APC.
“Politics of fake promises of personal favours to woo APGA members won’t change the desperate situation facing the people of Nasarawa state across all the political parties.
“Including founding members of the APC, majority of who are living in frustration and bitterness, because of the way they are being treated and or ignored,” it said. (NAN)
