The wife of the gubernatorial candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Katsina State, Hajiya Farida Muhammad Barau, has said her husband is in the race to clean the All Progressives Congress(APC’s) mess in the state.
Hajia Barau, who stated this during the inauguration of her programme tagged: “Women Sensitization Awareness and Political Awareness” at the state gubernatorial campaign headquarters in Kastina on Thursday, also described the ruling APC as a dead party, claiming that the major opposition party PDP is a divided house.
She said the APC-led administration has made Nigeria the poverty capital of the world, saying that Nigerians are living in hunger and abject poverty.
“People can no longer have three square meals a day. Hundreds of thousands of women were rendered widows and homeless. Thousands of people including women and children were kidnapped,” she alleged.
She added that Nigerians cannot continue to be treated in their own country as cows, saying that the NNPP is out to right the wrong.
Hajiya Barau, however, described supporters of the NNPP as responsible people, adding that: “Wherever you see NNPP candidates support them and vote for them during the 2023 general elections.”
While commending her husband, Hajiya Farida Barau said Engr. Nura Khalil is a kind, generous and compassionate politician.
“He has been using his wealth to assist people especially the poor and the vulnerable groups. What do you expect from him if he is given the opportunity to lead Katsina State people as their governor 2023? He will transform the state and make life better. He has never held any political office and he has never fed his family with ill-gotten money,” she said.
In his speech, the gubernatorial candidate of the party, Engr. Nura Khalil, promised to empower 34,000 women with palliatives to ease their suffering, if elected governor of the state in 2023.
In his address, the chairman of the party, Alhaji Sani Liti Yankwani, described Hajiya Farida Barau as one of the most dedicated, hardworking and responsible women in Nigeria.
He maintained that her passion is always to assist people especially those in critical condition, attributing the success of Engr Nura Khalil as a politician and philanthropist to the tremendous contributions made by Hajiya Farida Barau.
Also in his speech, Bashir Bala Funtua, one of the leading youth leaders campaigning for Engr. Nura Khalil project 2023, advised women not to allow any politician to use and dump them because of pittance, appealed to them to cast their vote wisely and vote for Khalil in 2023.
