By ‘Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
Women in Kwara State in their scores have declared their supports for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in tomorrow’s elections.
The women, who were the first set of beneficiaries of the National Social Investment Programme, N-SIP, in the state staged a solidarity rally
in support of the APC candidate, promising that their votes would be for the APC candidates in both tomorrow’s presidential/National Assembly, as well as the March 11, governorship and state House of Assembly elections in the state.
Focal person of the group, Dr (Mrs) Rabiat Shehu-Jimoh, who led the rally to the private residence of the AbdulRazaqs in Surulere area, Ilorin, said, “We, the beneficiaries of the programme in the state are here to say thank you to the All Progressives Congress, APC-led President Muhammadu Buhari administration for giving the masses the privilege to be recognised in the society.
“We also thank Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for the good things he has done for the people of the state.”
She insisted that it was when AbdulaRazaq came to power in 2019 that N-SIP and the school feeding programme came up and that it was because of that that the cooks of N-SIP programme came to express their supports for the governor’s second term bid.
She added, “We are using this forum to recognise and support all APC candidates in this Saturday election and subsequent one, we are assuring the governor that we are behind him. Under N-SIP, we have two units; they are school feeding and Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT.”
They disclosed that the number of beneficiaries under the school feeding programme was 1,167, and 95,665 students were being fed daily as well, through the programme. Also, Under N-GEEP, they said that they had about 3,064 beneficiaries under the CCT, which are 24,324 altogether; pointing out that in the N-Power programme, no fewer than 26,147 had benefited.
