APC gov aspirant in Jigawa pledges free education

APC gov aspirant in Jigawa pledges free education

An All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant in Jigawa State, Ubale Hashim Yusuf has pledged to provide free education, as well as accord priority attention to agriculture in order to strengthen the state’s revenue base and boost industrialization, if voted into power in 2015.
Speaking on his declaration, Yusuf said that according the sector priority would lead to industrial development, which would make the state financially independent through gainful employment.
“Today is the dawn of a new era in Jigawa State, since it is the day of reflections on the past, especially the painful political history our state has gone through in the last eight years.”
“We are going to revive the agricultural sector by transforming our old method of farming to mechanized agriculture; where our peasant farmers would produce in large quantities,” he said.
According to Hashim, the amount spent in the construction of an airport, for instance, and other misplaced infrastructural developments by the present PDP administration, could be utilized to boost agriculture so as to attract investors for even development and creation of job opportunities.