Kebbi 2027: Accord guber candidate promises N500,000 minimum wage

From Ola Muhammad, Birnin Kebbi

The Accord Party gubernatorial candidate in Kebbi State, Alhaji Muhammad Abdullahi Bunza, has promised to pay N500,000 minimum wage to civil servants in the state if elected.

Bunza, who disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Birnin Kebbi, noted that the take-home pay of Nigerian workers does not match the reality on the ground.

The Accord gubernatorial candidate stated this at the Candidates Engagement Forum, organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kebbi State Council.

The candidate lamented that civil servants were subjected to trauma and untold hardship due to unpopular government policies, adding that such policies were gradually driving workers into hopelessness.

According to him, “Let me categorically make my point clear: if I am elected Governor of Kebbi, I will ensure that the least paid worker goes home with N500,000.

“This is with a view to improving workers’ welfare because they are the engine room of every nation’s development; therefore, they must be treated with dignity.

“Nigeria has the money to pay workers a living wage, not a minimum wage. In Nigeria today, a worker is just a slave to those in positions of authority. I want to change the narrative if elected,” he assured.

He assured that he was not contesting for personal aggrandisement but “I am contesting to liberate Kebbi and the people of Kebbi.”

The gubernatorial candidate identified security as one of his topmost priorities, insisting that the present governments at all levels were not doing enough to end banditry, kidnapping and other criminal activities in the state and the country at large.

He observed that the security of the country was tied to those in the corridors of power and their families, adding that there had never been a day a governor, senator, House of Representatives member, minister or a member of their families was kidnapped.

The candidate pledged to tackle the issue of security head-on to give the people of Kebbi a sense of hope and peace.

On agriculture, he said, “If I am elected, I will ensure that agriculture is truly transformed because I am a farmer; I know the ins and outs of farming.

“My mission is to make Kebbi an agricultural hub of this nation. In Nigeria, our government doesn’t think out of the box; however, my approach will be different from what is obtainable.

“I will ensure I give free fertilisers, chemicals and other farming inputs to individual smallholder farmers and large-scale farmers to encourage them to produce more food.

“I will focus on mechanised farming; I will procure tractors and other machines to support my ambition.”

He also said the health sector would be given adequate consideration to completely prevent people from going abroad for medical tourism.

“All our hospitals will be transformed and equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to provide effective and efficient services to every citizen irrespective of status.

“Apart from that, I will ensure that enough medicine is supplied to every hospital in both urban and rural areas and it will be given to patients free. I want a situation where no patient will complain.”

The candidate, therefore, appealed to the electorate across Kebbi to vote wisely by casting their votes for the Accord Party.

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