A senatorial aspirant from Kogi East, Comrade Harirat Mabe Yakubu, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in the senatorial district not to elect those who would be bench warmers at the National Assembly, come 2015.
Comrade Harirat, who holds B.Sc. Biological Sciences (ABU 2005) and Master degree in Oil & Gas Management from the Coventry University (UK 2012), hails from Olamaboro Local Government Area.
She said ‘’the yearnings and aspirations of my people do not come into limelight at the National Assembly because our legislators there are bench warmers. Kogi East should make a shift from the old generation to the young ones because as youths, we are capable of doing the job.
‘’I want to make a clarion call to my people to allow me go to the Senate. Alhaji Maitama Sule became Minister of Petroleum at the age of 25, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) became Head of State at the age of 30 and there are many Nigerians like that,’’ she argued.
She said people can connect with her manifesto on www.campaigns.ng/harirat-mabe.yakubu, just as she enjoins well wishers to support her campaign/ticket via the donate button.
Although she said her House of Reps ambition in 2007 and that of House of Assembly in 2011 were truncated by what she described as power of incumbency exhibited by his co-contestants and conspiracy by screening committee members who tagged her as very youthful, the aspirant was optimistic that given a level-playing field she would have the mandate in 2015.
She therefore appealed to PDP stalwarts to give the ticket to an aspirant on the basis of competency and credibility rather than their wealth or being favourites of god-fathers.
On the defection of Senator Attai Aidoko from the All Progressives Congress to the PDP, Comrade Harirat said; ‘’although I learnt that Senator Aidoko has defected to the PDP, the party should allow him to queue behind old members of the party.’’
The aspirant who detested money-politics, advised the electorate from the district to jettison such trend, emphasising that ‘’politics built around how much money an aspirant or candidate can throw around will further under-develop and short-change our people.’’
She promised that if elected she would contribute meaningfully in all legislations to build a viable Nigeria. According to her, she had been into politics even as a student; as she was Vice President External Affairs of the National Association of Nigerian Students.
Harirat admitted that the senatorial ambition is daunting but believed that as a member of PDP National Youth Vanguard, Kogi Development Organisation and Olamaboro Youth Organisation, among others, she would liaise with youths and elders of the party to realise her dream.
While she called on the party in the state to give the 35 per cent affirmative action to women, she also noted that Rethink Nigeria in partnership with the office of the PDP National Youth leader had advocated at the National Conference 30 % youth representation in elective and appointive positions.
Source – Graphic Newspaper
God knows best but ours is to pray for them to have a change of attitude.
This guy is a joke. I don’t think he knows the enormity of what it takes to govern a state. A juvenile playing with the niceties of the art of governance