The All Progressives Congress Candidate for the Kano Central Senatorial district, Abdulkarim Zaura has expressed optimism of winning the coming Saturday elections.
He made the remark while flagging off his Scholarship programme for 10,000 selected youths in Kano on Tuesday.
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Kano is the second biggest commercial center in Nigeria, while Kano Central senatorial district is the largest in Nigeria with 15 local government areas and 172 wards.
He said the campaign across the 15 LGAs and 172 wards in the senatorial zone had been very successful.
“So, we are ready for the election which we are confident of winning by the grace of Almighty Allah,” he said.
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He said if given the mandate, he would, through legislation, influence policies that would have direct impact on the masses as well as effective use of constituency projects to their benefit.
“I promised to complement efforts of the state government in the areas of health, education, roads, agriculture, infrastructures, human capital development among others for the benefit of the people in my senatorial zone, especially the masses,”
On the scholarship, Zaura said he had earmarked N200 million to be disbursed to 10,000 students pointing out that each student would collect N20, 000.
According to him, no fewer than 3,000 students had been paid through their bank accounts while the remaining students would get their own between today and tomorrow.
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“A total of 36,700 students applied for the scholarship through our portal out of which 10,000 were selected after the screening exercise, ” he said.
He said the scholarship programme which is being handled by his Foundation, AA Zaura Foundation, had also supported a number of Islamiyya Schools in the state in addition to sponsoring students who memorised the Holy Qur’an to go for further studies.
