Get Guardian on GoogleThe Kwara State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt Hon. Salihu Yakubu-Danladi (SYD) has promised a befitting permanent secretariat for the state’s Correspondents of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) within 100 days in office if elected the governor in 2027.
SYD, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who, on Friday, featured on the Correspondents chapel’s News Keg, reeled out his developmental plans for the state.
Describing himself as “home boy,” SYD boasted to be a respected grassroot influencer.
According to him, the former leadership of the chapel led by Mallam AbdulHakeem Garba had on many opportunites discussed ways of possible assistance for the Journalists at that level, but for incapability and limitations, couldn’t grant the request.
Reacting to the chapel’s chairman, Alhaji ’Biola Azeez’s request for better office and improved environment, SYD recalled his many encounters with the erstwhile chairman, saying: “i promise to give you permanent secretariat in 100 days I assume as governor in 2027.”
This, however, attrracted applause from the desperate Journalists as well as from his entourage.
Earlier, the Speaker listed that he was able to drill over 200 boreholes in his Ilesha-Baruba-Geanara state constituency and across the Baruten local government in his first tenure as the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly.
Also, he hinted that he had alleviated the infrastructural challenges of his people, having graded over 33km road linking the local government.
