By Boluwaji Obahopo

LOKOJA—THE governorship candidate of Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN, in Kogi State, Dr Ojuh Hussein, has said the party remained the best alternative for the people of the state in the next election.

Hussein said the candidates of the two leading parties, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governor Idris Wada, and that of All Progressives Congress, APC, Prince Abubakar Audu, were not the alternatives that the people of the state actually needed.

Hussein, who stated this during his formal declaration for the governorship of the state in Lokoja, yesterday, said the PPN was the only party that had a well thought out policy and programme for the development of the state.

He said, “My party is ready to provide viable alternative to Wada and Audu, who had at one time or the other had the opportunity of ruling the state but could not better the lot of the people. My party, PPN, had a 10-point agenda for the development of Kogi State. They include local government autonomy, industrialisation, youth and women empowerment, rural and infrastructural development, war against poverty and transportation. Others are quality health care services, tourism, job creation and free and compulsory education.”

Hussein said he was ready to harness the potentialities of the state to make it one of the richest in the country. He added,“The people of Kogi State have suffered from decades of mismanagement and lack of idealist leadership to steward the state to growth and development. Our phenomenon only fix Kogi state far back behind its glories of 1914 of being the first capital of modern day Nigeria.

“PPN has offered young minds and brains to steer the course of leadership for Kogi State so that eagle ideas can fly in the process of making our dear Kogi great once again. All young men and women come out en mass to vote for PPN come November 21, 2015.”

He stated that the party, with representation across the 21 local government areas of the state, had commenced voter education among the electorate in order to secure the majority of the votes on the day of the election.