The former Governor of Abia State and Senator representing Abia East Sen. Orji Uzo Kalu had asked the Governor of Zamfara Dauda Lawal to work closely with the President Bola Ahmad Tinubu and key into his economic policy reform for the development of Zamfara people.
Sen. Kalu who was a Governor of Abia between 2007 and 2015, was special guest of the Governor at the formal commissioning of the newly constructed Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development and renovated Zamfara College of Arts and Science both in Gusau, the Zamfara capital.
Even though he did not ask the Governor to directly abandon his party, the PDP but urged the Governor to mend his political differences with President Bola Tinubu in the interest of his people.
He warned that the people of Zamfara could lose out on major development if the governor failed to play political economics with the President.
According to him, though he was a PDP member when he was a Governor, he maintained a good relationship with Tinubu who was of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, at the time.
The president is not only my brother; he is my friend. People thought we met when we were governors, no. My children used to live in his house. Mrs Tinubu brought those girls up because we were living in Abia but they schooled in Lagos. They lived in Marina, in the president’s house.
Whatever my political differences with the President were, we have healed up and we are one. I want you to heal your political differences with the President.
“I know you are PDP. I am APC. The President is APC. Do PDP as a party but do economic development as a Zamfara man so Zamfara can develop,” he said.
Kalu further urged Lawal to play political economics to get more Federal Government funds for developmental projects in the state.
