Jigawa PDP Gubernatorial Candidate Appeals to People to Collect their PVCs
By Aliyu Dangida
HOTPEN – The Jigawa State PDP Gubernatorial Candidate, Dr. Mustapha Sule Lamido has appealed to people in the state to collect their Permanent Voters` Cards (PVC) in various INEC Local Government offices across Jigawa.
Mustapha Lamido made the appeal in his message to the good people of Jigawa state titled “My Mission for Jigawa State II”, saying the call has become necessary in view of the huge number of PVCs awaiting collection by their owners.
The young gubernatorial candidate explained that presently there are about 20 million uncollected PVCs in Nigeria between June to December 2021 alone, with a total number of 33,183 unclaimed PVCs in Jigawa state.
His words: -“ I` am calling on all my fellow Jigawa citizens to use this opportunity to register and those who have registered should go and collect their PVCs, Register to vote, it is your right, collect your PVC and use it to change the future of our state and country”.
Mustapha who is the son of former Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido stated further that his vision for Jigawa state is not close-ended, it is flexible enough to accommodate people`s demands and observations, urged people to always share them with him and his team so that they can see how to incorporate them into the vision.
He added that the vision doesn’t belong to him alone but it is for all Jigawans and will continue to make wider consultations with all the people, saying “I aspire to serve because I don’t have the monopoly of all the solutions, I am not aspiring to rule Jigawa but to govern it through your inspiration and encouragement”. He noted.
According to Lamido Jnr, to achieve these aims for Jigawa State, we require national and international partnerships, explained that he has already intimated the PDP presidential candidate, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar on the need to give special attention to Jigawa State if he becomes President.
He said “I have already started making efforts to understand the dynamics of establishing partnerships with international organizations for a working and beneficial relationship with Jigawa State and its people.
“From the public reactions, I understand many people are questioning our ability to implement this vision, as some mischief-makers even reported that we have claimed to make Jigawa work without federal allocations once elected.
“This is not true; we are not magicians; what we are saying is that we have developed short- and long-term plans to take Jigawa to greater heights. The execution of those plans would depend on so many factors including the level of support and cooperation we get from the people and we cannot do it alone”.