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Senator Kalu advised Governor Lawal that Zamfara risks missing out if he doesn’t align politically with Tinubu. The senator recommended engaging in strategic political maneuvers to secure increased federal funding for state development projects.
On Monday, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu from Abia North urged Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, to reconcile any political disagreements with President Bola Tinubu for the benefit of the people in the North-West state.
The senator expressed this view while inaugurating the newly built Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development and the renovated Zamfara College of Arts and Science, located in Gusau, the state capital.
He said, “The president is not only my brother; he is my friend. People thought we met when we were governors, no. My children used to live in his house. Mrs Tinubu brought those girls up because we were living in Abia but they schooled in Lagos. They lived in Marina, in the president’s house.
“Whatever my political differences with the President were, we have healed it up and we are one. I want you to heal your political differences with the President.
“I know you are PDP. I am APC. The President is APC. Do PDP as a party but do economic development as a Zamfara man so Zamfara can develop.
“Once you leave economic diplomacy and play politics, you will lose, Zamfara people will lose. Go and take the federal money. If you do politics, you leave the federal money. If you do political economics, you get the federal money and develop Zamfara State.
“(Former) Governor (Abdul’aziz) Yari is from here and you are from here. You people should come together and give Zamfara (people) the development they need and the livewire they need.
“This place needs the attention of the Federal Government. I am not saying join their party but I am saying be on good terms.
“Tinubu was not in our party when President Obasanjo was in office. I was the governor of the PDP. He was the only one that was not in PDP but we shared the same ideas.”
