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Outspoken lawmaker and member representing
Bagwai/Shanono federal constituency in the House of Representative,
Farouk Lawan, inaugurated his gubernatorial campaign team over the
weekend in Kano with a pledge that if elected the governor of Kano
State in 2011, he will give the state a purposeful leadership.

Mr. Lawan, who addressed a crowd of supporters, said
Kano State has been misgoverned over the last seven years despite the
huge amount of money the state has collected from the federal
government coffers.

“You will agree with me that Kano is lagging behind
in terms of infrastructural development and in so many spheres of human
life. Just go to Gombe State, for instance, to see what the governor
has done or go to Lagos which is an opposition state. In just three
years, look at what the governor has done,” he said.

“There are several states like that, but for us in
Kano we are not lucky and that is why I have offered myself to give the
state a purposeful leadership. Virtually all the important areas needs
attention at the moment, the decay in education, health and many are
too much for one to just ignore.”

Qualified to lead

Mr. Lawan warned his supporters not to take the
contest as a do-or-die affair, stressing that power comes from God and
they should always look up to God in everything they do. He added that
he is qualified to take the state to the promised land, having garnered
enough experience as a federal lawmaker.

“I think I have enough experience to lead the state,
this is my eleventh year in the House and that has given me a lot of
experience that is enough to govern Kano,” he said.

The state coordinator of the Farouk Lawan gubernatorial campaign
team, Jibrin el Doguwa, called on the leaders and members of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to give Mr Lawan the chance to lead the
party in the elections. He said that the lawmaker has all the qualities
to win the gubernatorial race for the party.