The entire traditional and political party singers under the platform of All Progressive Congress, have taken a drastic measure against the Jigawa State Government, boycotting its activities and all other functions.
The Singers, who stormed the Kano NUJ secretariat in their hundreds on Sunday, expressed dismayed over what they term, “total I don’t care attitudes of the Government on them despite what they had went through in the hay days of elections.
Addressing newsmen, the Chairman of the Group, Alhaji Lawan Gujungu popularly known as “Maibaban Gandu said, “We have decided to take this punitive measure against the Jigawa State Government in an effort to protect our collective integrity, our rights and the source of our livelihood”.
He said the actions affect every Singer within and outside Jigawa who though is a Jigawa State Citizen, and it entails that wherever the Government is conducting its activities none of the singers will participate there.
“We cannot sit down and allow our collective rights trampled upon, we have our children and other family members who fen on us, if the government feels we are not important ok we are staying aside, let them do without us”, the chairman said.
The Traditional and Political Party Singers who came from across the Jigawa State 27 local government areas, explained that overtime the government shows serious negligence on them and this is the time they would respond appropriately.
Although the singers refused to openly specified areas of their disagreement with the government, but indications shows that the Jigawa authorities discarded them in all their activities and refused to patronize them by extending invitations to them whenever they are performing a function.
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Also speaking, the Treasurer of the association, Alhaji Jamilu, hints that they have suffered enough including spending their personal monies to campaign for the Governor Umar Namadi.
“We have outlined six major actions to be taken against the government, this is the first step and if the government refuses to listen to us, we will go to the second to all the agenda we put against the Governor”.
The aggrieved Singers presented one of them whom they said had lost all his belongings in the course of ensuring that Mallam Umar Namadi emerged, but when he fell sick nobody was there for him not until they organized their association support to secure medical treatment for him.
