{"id":12192,"date":"2018-09-28T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T09:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12192"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T09:46:17","slug":"tambuwal-wants-buhari-to-operationalise-nedc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12192","title":{"rendered":"Tambuwal wants Buhari to operationalise NEDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m3400544530951909741\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Sokoto state governor and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately operationalise the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) to accelerate development of critical infrastructure and social services to the people of the geo-political zone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Addressing party members at the PDP secretariat in Bauchi on Thursday, Tambuwal recalled that the establishment of the NEDC was one of the initiatives by House of Representatives and his leadership and that of the current Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, to repair the damage caused to the North-East by the activities of insurgents.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">He appealed to Bauchi delegates to support his presidential aspiration to enable him provide the much needed inclusive leadership to Nigerians.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">\u201cI have the legislative, judicial and executive experience, and I am well prepared for leadership.\u00a0\u00a0I promise you that if elected, we shall not shut the doors of the Aso Rock Villa against you or anybody. We shall carry all Nigerians along irrespective of religion, ethnicity and culture,\u201d Tambuwal said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">He assured that he would assemble the best brains in the country to provide workable solutions to the nation\u2019s economy, insecurity and other challenges confronting Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">State Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Hamza Ibrahim Usha, in his response, stated that Tambuwal had invested heavily in Bauchi and that this was the time for the former speaker to reap the benefits of such investments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">He acknowledged the role played by Governor Tambuwal in the emergence of Hon. Yakubu Dogara from Bauchi state as the current Speaker of the House of Representatives and other forms of support to the state.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">\u201cWhen we were preparing for the last Bauchi Senatorial bye-election and we had no funds to run our campaign, Governor Tambuwal came to our rescue by sending us N10billion to assist us,\u201d he recalled.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">\u201cTambuwal has been good to us, not once or twice, and the people of Bauchi are ready to reward you for your investment in us. I assure you that come October 5<sup>th<\/sup>-6<sup>th<\/sup>, no vote from Bauchi delegates (to the PDP national convention) will go out of you,\u201d the Bauchi PDP chairman said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">He said that at the convention, all Bauchi delegates would line up behind Speaker Yakubu Dogara and other leaders like former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed and Hon Abdul Ningi, who were present in the meeting,\u00a0\u00a0to cast their votes for Tambuwal.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sokoto state governor and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately operationalise the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) to accelerate development of critical infrastructure and social services to the people of the geo-political zone. Addressing party members at the PDP secretariat in Bauchi on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}