By Samuel Aruwan
Kaduna
The Concerned Southern Kaduna Realists yesterday said the late Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of Kaduna state was being persecuted in death.
The group added over one year after Yakowa’s death, the Kaduna state government had done nothing to immortalise him instead stopped all projects he initiated before his death on December 15, 2012, in a plane crash in Bayelsa state.
Addressing a press conference in Kaduna, its convener, Dr. John Danfulani said: “For every follower of polity unfolding in Kaduna state, the governor’s promises had turned out to be lies, deceit and mischief shrouded in hypocrisy of the highest order. There is clearly persecution of Yakowa in death and it is ongoing by the governor.
“For instance, all the road projects and other projects initiated by late Yakowa which Governor Yero promised to continue with have been put on hold without sufficient reasons. Apart from the new Kaduna Bridge constructed by the late governor which was said to have been named after Yakowa, Governor Yero has not found it worthy to name a significant institution or structure after the late governor.”
Danfulani noted that nothing was working in the state, saying that “the health and education sectors are in shambles, the road and other infrastructural projects are all gone with the wind except for signboards bearing giant portraits of the governor and robust media advertorials presenting failures as achievements, in the name of ‘silent achiever’, instead of ‘open failure’.
“It is based on the aforementioned reasons that we are making it clear that Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero remains unelectable in Southern Kaduna area of the state. It is a cause we are pursuing vigorously and leaving no stone unturned in making it a reality. We are aware of divisive plots by the governor in the ranks of Southern Kaduna people, but as a people we will triumph with God on our side.”
Kaduna state Commissioner for Information, Hon. Ben Bako, did not reply calls and text messages sent to him on the issue.