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From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has pleaded with members of Arewa Traders Association in the 19 Northern States and Abuja to cooperate with Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to create a decent environment for commercial activities in the city of Abuja.
Ganduje spoke when the traders paid him a courtesy visit at the ruling party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday. He also assured that the former Rivers governor will prioritise security, energy power and transportation in the FCT.
“I assure you that Mr. President is providing an enabling environment for you to do your legitimate activities. He is working very hard on the security of this nation, we all know how important security is to traders. If ther i’s no security, there will be no trade, no marketing and most importantly no feeding.
“So you know and likely enough, you have a competent, Minister of the FCT, the former governor of River state, Nyesom Wike who came from a big city himself, but has now gotten another mandate of administering another big city the FCT.
“So, I urge you to cooperate with him, so that he can creates a decent environment for commercial activities in the mega city of Abuja. Security is his number one program that he mentioned, and am sure he will improve the transportation system of Abuja.
“As traders you know how important transportation is in the city, he will improve the lighting of the city so that trading can take place at night if there is light everywhere in Abuja.
“We thank you for coming, we have taken note of your request; we assure you as a political party, we will also involve you in our political party activities.
“Although we have elections coming in November, Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi state, and in all these states there are traders. You will get the key to those traders so that they participate actively in the election,” he promised.
Earlier, chairman of the traders, Adam Hassan Ibrahim, disclosed that they supported the President Bola Tinubu/Shettima project by unanimously working day and night for their successful election across all levels.
“We will like to make some appeal to you being a father and leader who always listen in understanding the feelings of the people especially when you were the governor of Kano State. “You are aware that members of this noble association are well educated in spheres of life and we constitute majority in our economic and political ontribution.
“We will like you to use your good office to provide good format for inclusion of traders to the various governmental appointments and the committees so that traders will feel confident in the campaign activities for the party,” they pleaded.
