By Aaron Ossai
Member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Suleiman Gumi has urged politicians not to wait until election period to embark on programmes that could impact positively on lives of Nigerians.
Hon. Gumi representing Gumi/Bukkuyyum Federal Constituency of Zamfara State spoke when he defected from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC amidst pump and pageantry.
He said that the mammoth crowed that graced the occasion was a clear indication that he has been doing the will of his constituents without waiting for electioneering campaign period.
According to him, he thought that by moving from one party to another, he would have left some supporters behind but expressed happiness that almost 100 percent of his supporters and political allies moved with him.
“The message I passed across to all the politicians in my Zone is that the way forward is not waiting till election time for them to give out money to the people but be kind to the people, be just to them as you execute your official engagement and by doing so, people will always align with you.
“The 2027 general election is still far away, we are not thinking about 2027. What we are thinking about is how do we bring development to our people? Bringing development, the way forward, that is why we’re you are there to represent them properly and bring the goodness of politics to them, when they vote for you, you return by being kind and being a good a good representative for them. The message is we should be responsible to our people”, he said.
On the massive turnout of party stalwarts at the rally, the lawmaker said “it’s just a rare occasion where you see the executive of one party merging with another executive of another party under one umbrella. I think it was a remarkable sight to see, where the whole structure of Local Government is coming together to work for one individual towards achieving dividends of democracy. So, today was a very good event and I’m hopeful that when the time comes, there won’t be any much struggle to get re-elected or for you to get the support of your people
“Today’s donation is one of the things we do, we get items for them as much as we can from the federal level. Today was for the distribution of irrigation equipment, so that we can empower our youths to go back to farm. That is one way we can take our teeming youths out of joblessness to being gainfully employed through agriculture and that is what we are trying to promote.
Apart from the solar pumping machines, we are trying to encourage the youths to go back to farm.
“I announced the commencement of the construction of a major road that is leading to the farms in Gummi Local Government. The reason is that if we are encouraging people to go farm, we should pave the way for them to go to farm and bring out their produces with ease, that is why we launched that and it will be constructed in the shortest possible time.
“Secondly, there’s another Ward called Zonma in Bukkuyyum Local Government which the road in their town has a lot of water crossing a particular point where there’s a dam. Unfortunately the dam gave way during the raining season and the road is really not motorable and very difficult terrain for them to pass through. So, we think it’s better to create a permanent solution by constructing a Steel Bridge for them so that they can be accessing their homes and coming to town to do their normal day to day business”, he added.