Jigawa governor speaks on President Tinubu’s visit, projects to be commissioned

The Jigawa State Government has promised President Bola Tinubu a rousing reception when he arrives in the state on Tuesday for a working visit and campaign rally.

Speaking to reporters late Sunday after conducting an inspection tour of the project sites and the campaign rally venue, Governor Umar Namadi said all logistical and security arrangements have been finalised ahead of the visit.

According to the governor, President Tinubu will inaugurate key developmental and agricultural empowerment projects in Dutse, the state capital, during the visit.

He said the president will unveil 400 brand-new tractors fitted with implements, 60 combined harvesters, 150 threshers, and 150 boom sprayers.

The governor said Mr Tinubu will also commission the Renewed Hope Technical Services, the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Multipurpose Skills Acquisition Centre, and the newly dualised Garo Road within the Dutse metropolis.

Governor Namadi said his administration has executed projects across the state’s 27 local government areas, but those to be commissioned on Tuesday were selected in Dutse due to the president’s tight itinerary.

“We have supervised all the project sites that will be commissioned by the President and the venue for the campaign rally, and we are very confident and waiting for Mr President. I can say, perfectly, that Jigawa is waiting for Mr President,” Governor Namadi stated.

“We selected a few projects within the metropolis, conscious of the timing of the President. We have hundreds of projects spread across the 27 local government areas, but because of the President’s schedule, he cannot do that in a one-day visit,” he added.

Reaffirming the state’s solidarity with the administration, Governor Namadi expressed optimism about massive public turnout, noting that the people of Jigawa hold the President in high esteem.

“We believe that Jigawa is for President Bola Tinubu; all we need to do is inform the people that the president is coming, and they will come out en masse to welcome him. The residents are ready to receive the President,” the governor stated.

Jigawa State is not in the schedued 12-state campaign tour of Mr Tinubu released by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

While inaugurating the Jigawa State APC campaign council on Saturday, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Haruna Aliyu, announced that the president had included Jigawa because of his confidence in the state’s leadership and its people.