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The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Senator Yusuf Datti-Baba Ahmed has paid a condolence visit to both the victims of Beruet Market, where a three-storey building collapsed at the Computer Village and the Kantin Kwari market, where flood destroyed property in Kano.
Yusuf Datti was received by the Kano State gubernatorial candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Bashir, the North West geopolitical zone coordinator, Mr. Hafiz Bello, the Kano State coordinator, Abdulahmeed Abdulahi and other members of Peter-Datti Global Network.
He thanked members of the group for finding time to welcome him and for their huge mobilization as they strongly believe in the Peter-Datti course to rebrand Nigeria and make it an enviable country in the comity of nations.
Speaking at both markets, the vice presidential candidate expressed shock at the magnitude of collapse and destruction of properties of innocent marketers.
The marketers, he said, left their homes to seek daily bread in their shops but we’re left shattered by disaster.
He enjoined the Kano State Government to carry out proper investigation to ascertain the cause of the fire incident.
He commiserated with the bereaved family members and pray for quick recovery for the injured.
“I bring good message of hope from my principal and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi to condole and sympathize with you on this heinous act that has befallen you, indeed all of us and the country at large.
“Obi sent his warm greetings to you, he commiserates with you and pray God to grant the family members who lost their loved ones the fortitude to bear this irreplaceable loss.
“He prayed God to heal the injured faster so that they can reunite with their family members in no distant time,” he said.
He made cash donations to the victims at both markets to aide them pick up their businesses once again.
Earlier, the vice presidential candidate paid a courtesy visit to the palace of the Emir of Kano, His Eminence Ado Bayero where he intimated him on the reason for his visit to sympathize with victims at both markets.
On his part, the Emir thanked Yusuf Datti for the visit and prayed God to grant him and his principal, Obi their heart desires to rebrand Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the global coordinator of PPGN, Michael Chukwujekwu and all the regional, national and state coordinators have also joined Obi, Datti-Baba, Bashir and all Nigerians to sympathise with the market victims as well as Kano State.
