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The presidential candidate of the Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN), Nuhu Ribadu, and his running mate, Fola Adeola,
yesterday assured the people of Kano State that the ACN would wipe
their tears by running an open government if elected in the April polls.

The candidates address a large crowd of ACN supporters in Kano during the party’s presidential campaign to the state on Sunday.

“We are going to provide the change the people are
asking for; we promise to work hard and win. We are going to succeed in
this election,” Mr. Ribadu said.

“We have a good message and we also have good
messengers. We have seen our gubernatorial candidate, and how much he
has been accepted in Kano. You have also seen the rest of us. People
are excited and delighted. We are very happy with what we have seen
here in Kano and it is amazing, and I don’t think anybody has seen
anything like this since the beginning of this transition period,” he
further said.

He assured the people that good days are ahead, with
an ACN government in power, and urged the crowd to vote the party at
the polls.

Mr. Ribadu said he was satisfied with the level of turnout, saying it signifies acceptance of the party in Kano.

“We have seen clearly that people are talking about
change, and that the broom revolution has reached Kano. We are glad and
happy, and we are ready to take this challenge. We are the party of the
moment, and we are going to take Kano, and already, we have taken Kano,
no doubt about it. But it is a challenge. We would take it and we would
work hard,” Mr. Ribadu added.

The Kano State ACN governorship candidate, Abdullahi
Tijani Mohammed Gwarzo, urged the party supporters to come out enmasse
and vote for the party in the April polls. He pointed out that the
massive turnout was a clear indication that the people are yearning for
change.

Government of the greedy

Former governor of Lagos State, Ahmed Bola Tinubu,
described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the party inflicting
poverty on Nigerians.

Mr. Tinubu said in the last twelve years, the PDP has
subjected the nation to infrastructural deficiency and economic
backwardness.

“For 12 years, 90 per cent of our power supply is a
disaster in Nigeria, because of PDP corruption, because of PDP failure,
because of the PDP leadership. They define democracy as government of
the people, by the people, and for the people. But democracy, according
to PDP, is government of the greedy, for the greedy and by the greedy.

“PDP and ANPP are one and the same, and I want all
Nigerians to be wary of these two parties, because they have the same
antecedents and characteristics. So Nigerians should not repeat the
mistakes of the past by voting them to power. What they did in Kano to
the deputy governor is a clear manifestation that they are a party of
betrayal,” Mr. Tinubu said.

He expressed confidence that the Ribadu/Adeola candidacy would usher in the change that Nigerians have been waiting for.

Other leaders of the party at the rally are the national chairman of
the party, Bisi Akande; the director general of Ribadu/Adeola Campaign
Organization, Audu Ogbe; former minister of labour, Musa Gwadabe; and
the party’s governorship candidate in Katsina State, Usman Bugaje.