Nasarawa State Government has reassured that All Progressives Congress APC would win the 2019 presidential election with wide margin contrary to allegations that it was only interested in victory at the governorship polls.
This was made known by the state Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Jamil Zakari in an interview with Nasarawa Eye at his office in Lafia, Wednesday.
Commenting on why APC has never won the presidential polls in the state in spite of having the only CPC-led government in the country that went ahead to form the APC, Jamil Zakari explained that it was due to manipulation of results by the PDP government at the centre.
The commissioner maintained that APC in Nasarawa State has always won the popular votes, but the PDP had always manipulated the official results in its favour, adding that this time the opposition party would be confined to its rightful place.
On the first recently concluded primary elections, particularly the governorship primaries, the commissioner stated that the election remains one of the most open, free and fair elections by the APC or any other party in the country.
He disclosed that all the aspirants have already pledged their continued allegiance to the APC, adding that most of them have congratulated the winner, Engr. Abdullahi A. Sule for emerging victorious and expressed willingness to support the party in the forthcoming general elections come 2019.
Jamil Zakari maintained that the APC remains the party to beat from the centre to the states’ and LGCs’ levels with its glaring progressive programme aimed at improving the generality of lives of the people through good governance.
The commissioner maintained that the achievements of Governor Almakura’s administration in terms of infrastructural development in the state is unprecedented as everything is there on the ground for all to see.
He said that the state government has been able to key into the economic diversification agenda of the Federal Government and has been looking into the future by attracting billions of naira worth of sustainable investment in the agricultural sector where over 80 percent of the population belong to.
According to him, the proposed Sugar Refinery in Awe LGA of the state which Dangote Group of Companies is set to invest billions of naira in would eventually employ over 30,000 workers, which is even more than the workforce of the state government.