By Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has vowed to eliminate kidnappers and other terrorists in Kaduna State in North-West Nigeria.
He made the vow at the APC North-West Presidential Campaign Rally in Kaduna on Tuesday.
“All those troublemakers, violent kidnappers, killers; all troublemakers who are (disturbing the) security of Kaduna, I assure you, we will eliminate them,” he affirmed.
Stonix News reports that Kaduna, one of the seven states in the North-West geopolitical zone, has recorded increasing bandit and terrorist attacks in the last two years.
These included the infamous infiltration of the Nigerian Defence Academy on August 24, 2021 and the dastardly attack on a moving train on March 28, 2022.
The Kaduna State government said 1,192 persons were killed by bandits and other violent groups in 2021 while over 3,000 residents, students and travellers were kidnapped.
So far, over 800 people have been killed by bandits and more than 1,200 persons kidnapped in Kaduna between January and September 2022, according to official data.
However, Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, told a crowd of APC supporters decked up in party paraphernalia on Tuesday that he can bring an end to the security challenges in the state.
He also said the incumbent governor of Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai has done creditably well since he assumed office in 2015.
He, therefore, urged the party faithful to vote himself and the APC governorship candidate in Kaduna, Uba Sani in the 2023 general elections.
“El-Rufai has done a good job, go around Kaduna, you will see how organised, how clean (the state is).
“He has more internally generated revenue,” Tinubu said, promising to create jobs, harness agriculture potential and empower youths if elected on February 25, 2022.
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