THE Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Isa Ashiru, has urged registered voters to avoid apathy and vote in the March 11 governorship and House of Assembly elections.
He stated that voting for the PDP in the election was a vote for freedom from insecurity or for forced dismissal from the state civil service without benefits.
According to the gubernatorial candidate, people must put their recent presidential and National Assembly elections behind them and turn out in large numbers to vote for the candidates of the main opposition party.
He stated that voters should not be disheartened by the results of the previous elections and should not refuse to vote.
In a statement issued yesterday by the PDP Campaign Media and Publicity Deputy Director, Media and Publicity, Reuben Buhari, Ashiru commended voters for voting massively for the party during the previous elections.
The PDP won 14 of the state’s 23 Local Government Areas in the presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25, leaving the Labour Party with seven and the All Progressives Congress with two.
The PDP also won all three senatorial seats and ten of the state’s sixteen House of Representatives seats, while the APC and LP split four and two seats, respectively.
Consequently, Ashiru stated that voting for the PDP, regardless of party affiliation, will assure freedom for the people under after the APC’s eight-year draconian rule in the state.
He said, “If our dream is to have a secure, prosperous Kaduna State, then we owe it to ourselves and our families to resolve to go and vote for the PDP.
“Not voting would ensure that more of our people in Kaduna State get sacked with impunity or forcefully retired without them getting their benefits.
“Not voting might ensure that labour leaders who decide to legally protect the interest of their members when they would be sacked again, would be hounded and declared wanted like criminals.
“Not voting might ensure the continuation of school fees increment in Kaduna’s tertiary institutions without regard to the common man.
“Abstaining from voting would continue to see our traditional institutions bastardised without recourse to what the people genuinely desire.
“We would continue to witness more demolitions of houses and shops that the common man is using for sustenance; continue to see the forceful seizure of people’s land and continue to witness the most insecure environment that Kaduna currently has become.
“Not going out to vote for the PDP would ensure the continuation of these and many more.
“With us all strategically closing ranks and putting the result of the past election behind us, we will emerge with enough votes to ensure that the APC never again brings any hardship to the residents of Kaduna state.”
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