Jigawa State governor, Badaru Abubakar has said he will conduct the Ondo APC governorship primary election transparently, while stating that he doesn’t believe in or fear charms.
He said this after he was sworn-in as the Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Ondo Primary Election Committee.
He said, ”Free and fair election will solve the problem. If they believe we are free, fair and transparent, they will accept the result.
”Well in the first place, I don’t believe in juju so certainly I am surely not afraid.
”In Jigawa, we are not owing salaries. In fact we always pay on the 25th of every month whether the federation account comes in or not.
”We are not owing either local government or state salaries and we are not owing pension. In fact pensioners collect on the 13th or 15th.
”We are not owing gratuity as well. We are really very clean as far as staff welfare is concerned and even this week or next week, we’ll be paying the annual leave grants as promised.
”The magic is being prudent. You just have to do what you think is good for the people.
”Paying workers is of paramount importance and we have to sacrifice all what we do to be sure to pay our workers because workers have to remain focused.
”We do a lot of cost savings and employ cost saving techniques to reduce expenditure of the government.
”For instance in the government house, the expenditure has been reduced by as much as 80 per cent, while general overhead has been reduced as much as 47 per cent.
”The security vote has been reduced as much as 87 per cent. We use only 13 per cent of what they normally used.
“So, all those expenditure that have no direct bearing to the common man have been reduced drastically to give room for service to the people.”
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