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9th Senate: Fulani herdsmen endorse Sen. Ahmed Lawan
Kulen Allah Cattle
Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN) has endorsed the candidature of Senator
Ahmed Lawan as the next Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
This was made known
in a statement issued on Saturday in Damaturu by the National President of the
Association, Khalil Mohammed Bello where he said the endorsement was based on
Senator Lawan’s track of records and year’s of serving humanity.
“He (Senator Ahmed
Lawan) has a genuine concern for the development of both livestock and arable
farming in the country.
“For example in the
year 2017, Dr. Ahmed Lawan spent millions of naira in procurement of animal
vaccines and freely vaccinated 2 millions head of Cattle in Yobe State and he
did same to help arable farmers in Yobe North Senatorial District.
“The free animal
vaccination was the first of its kind in Yobe State done by an individual
legislator”, the National President explained.
He added that,
Senator Lawan has brought many physical developmental projects, such as
provision of portable drinking water for both animals and human consumption and
in addition to numerous empowerment projects to the people of his district.
According Bello the
Association is confident that, as a former renowned Scholar, Senator Ahmed
Lawan knew the value of education, hence will help towards formulating and
total implementation of beautiful educational policies, that would promote
education and bring to an end the intermittent strike in the nation’s
Universities and other higher institutions.
“Having come form
the Northeast part of the Country, where the esteemed seat of the Senate
President is zoned, he knows the security challenges of the area, which are
almost the same with that of the Northwest and some parts of the country for
which if elected, he would cooperate with the Federal Government to find out
immediate solution to it, so that peace and harmony would immediately flourish
in our beloved Country.
“We are optimistic,
that if he (Senator Lawan) has gotten the seat under reference, he will carry
everybody along, so that Nigeria will once again be blessed with having a
National Assembly, that will work hard towards solving the problems of security
challenges that are hindering the development of our great country”, Bello
said.
The President
described Senator Ahmed Lawan as a person whose main concern is the development
and unity of Nigeria, adding that he would surely create a good working
relationship between the two chambers that would accelerate decision making
process and execution of those decisions by the Federal Executive Council.
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