Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai has invited former Vice President Namadi Sambo, pioneer national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande and his successor John Odigie-Oyegun, to commission various projects of the Urban Renewal Programme of his administration tomorrow.
Also invited to the event are former governors and the two serving ministers from Kaduna State, Hajiya Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed and Dr Mohammed Mahmood Abubakar.
A statement signed by the special adviser on media and communication to the governor, Muyiwa Adekeye, listed the projects to include the Safe City Command and Control Centre and the new Ungwan Rimi Market.
Adekeye also listed the Umaru Yar’Adua Road which links the Millennium City to the Eastern Bypass, the Isa Kaita Road and 10 other roads as projects to be commissioned, recalling that ‘’President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the projects of the first phase of the urban renewal programme in January 2021.’’
He said the choice of Sambo as one of the dignitaries that will commission the projects, was because he is the highest-ranking elected official that Kaduna State has so far produced.
The statement said, Akande, Odigie-Oyegun, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Pastor Tunde Bakare and former governor Ali Modu Sheriff would be honoured for their sterling roles in the merger of the parties that fused into the APC.
Adekeye said Senator Aisha Dahiru, the APC gubernatorial candidate in Adamawa State, ‘’has worked hard to break the glass ceiling limiting the political aspirations of women in Nigeria.’’
Part of the statement reads: “It is only right and proper to recognize the service of Hajiya Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed and Dr. Mohammed Mahmood Abubakar as ministers from Kaduna State.
“The projects to be commissioned are part of the comprehensive effort to expand and improve critical public infrastructure across the state through the Urban Renewal Programme and projects undertaken by the newly created metropolitan authorities.’’
