A former Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authourity (NPA); Engr Omar Suleiman has alleged that 75 per cent of capital projects in the 2017 budget went to the southern part of the country, a development he attributed to deficiency on the part of Senators from the north.
Suleiman who is APC aspirant for Adamawa Central Senatorial District said this when he visited Gov. Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa state on Thursday.
He said that the purpose of the visit was to register his support and that of his campaign organisation to the governor and to solicit his support.
Suleiman said that he was motivated to vie for the position in order to bring development which was presently inadequate in the zone.
The former NPA boss explained that 75 per cent of capital projects in the 2017 budget went to the southern zone of the country because their senators were good in lobbying and more determined than senators from the north.
Suleiman promised to attract more dividends of democracy from the Federal Government to the zone if given the chance.
While welcoming the aspirant, the state Governor said he had no preferred candidate for the forthcoming primary elections in the state.
He said that he was ready to work with whoever would emerge during the primary elections.
According to him, as the leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, I have no preferred aspirant but ready to work with anybody that emerges as the candidate of the party during the coming primaries.
Bindow described the aspirant as a person, who had been endowed with all the prerequisites to be a senator.
“If it is all about me, I will nominate you as the candidate of the party in the central senatorial zone because of your credibility, capacity and capability but I am not the one to decide; rather the delegates.
“I advise you and all other aspirants to know that power and authority belong to God Almighty and he gives to whom He wants at the time He wants. So it should not be a do or die affair, ‘’ Bindow said.
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