…Says I ‘ve no case with the EFCC 

By Ibrahim Hassan, Kaduna 

The governorship candidate of People’s Redemption Party (PRP) in Kaduna State, Hayatudeen Lawal Makarfi has said come come Saturday the 11th of March, he would be declared winner of the governorship election in Kaduna because the youth and other citizens were in his support being the youngest  gubernatorial candidate in the country. 

He ebunked the rumours making the rounds that he has stepped down for a political party in the State and called on his supporters to come out enmasse on election day and cast their vote for the PRP.

Speaking at a press conference in Kaduna on Wednesday,the candidate also said he had no case with the anti graft agency as was wrongly speculated. 

“We are confident that we will win the governorship. And we want to call on the INEC chairman to give the people hope of fair, free and credible elections. And We also call on the good people of Kaduna to come out enmass to vote PRP next Saturday,”Makarfi said.

He said he was in the race to Sir Kashim Ibrahim House and there was no going back as it would amount to disappointing late Balarabe Musa, Aminu Kano and other founding fathers of PRP if he stepped down for any party for the governorship election.

“Some political parties made some remarks that we should step down for them. We would not step down for any political party. We want to lead and emancipate the people as Balarabe Musa did in the 70s and 80s.This is my first outing as governorship candidate in Kaduna State. So it will not be proper for me to step down for any political party..”

“For the past nine days we have been campaigning across the local government areas in the State. We could see the need for unity among the people irrespective of religious  leaning because we love ourselves as Muslims and Christians, but in the last few years we have allowed enemity to divide us.”

“So let’s vote leaders based on the competence and good characters. We pray that  the PRP emerge victorious, and carry everybody along.We have been doing issues based campaigns. PRP was in government in 1979 and 1980. Balarabe Musa spent 18 months in office. The good record is there. So we cannot run alliance with APC or PDP or any other party.”

“In the last 24 years it had been money politics, we need to reverse money politics because those days people supported political parties with money and not political parties spending money to win election.”

“We are confident that people across the 23 Local government areas of Kaduna State will support us. So we are confident that PRP can form the next  government.”

“Campaign of calumny notwithstanding, I came out clean from EFCC investigation after falling apart from governor Nasir El-Rufai government. And I got another job at Nigeria Financial and Intelligence Unit.”

“Nobody believed that PDP would be removed from power after 16 years in office. Kaduna people did it. So we are calling on the people to vote Balarabe Musa and Aminu Kano’s party, the PRP,” he said.