I am ready to die for youths – Bala Mohammed

Bauchi State gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)‎, Senator Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir has said that Bauchi state youths are worth dying for and will do that in order to brighten their future.

According to him, “the youths are ready to die for me and I am also ready to die for them. I am in the contest to bring the people of Bauchi State out of the woods. Our youths and women will be given utmost priority if I am elected the governor of Bauchi State”.

Senator Bala Mohammed Kaura who was speaking ‎on Sunday at a town hall meeting in Bauchi to present his manifesto said it was worrisome, the current trend where the youths are been used by some selfish politicians to guard campaign posters and billboards.

He said, since inception, the present administration has refused to employ a single graduate into the state civil service despite the fact that year-in year- out hundreds of youths have graduated from different institutions across the world.

The guber hopeful who lamented that the youths in Bauchi state have been relegated and have become political thugs said he would do everything possible to bring them to limelight if eventually elected governor in March, 9 gubernatorial and state assembly elections.

He said that the youths in Bauchi state are solidly supporting his gubernatorial candidature and are ready to ensure that they cast and protect their votes from been rigged.

“If I am given the mandate by the good people of Bauchi, I will not allow the youths to engage in thuggery, I will engage them in meaningful ventures. I will take their profile; employ those that have the educational requirements”. Senator Bala promised.

He pledged to provide skills acquisition programme that will train those who do not have educational qualifications and assist those who dropped out from school to go back and complete their studies.

On Local government autonomy, the governorship candidate said “I will allow them to function effectively; I will give them their funds and will conduct local government elections because they are the most closest to the people at the grass root, and by so doing, it will foster development.

Speaking on his trial at the EFCC, the Ex- FCT Minister said the act a clear case of witch-hunt aimed tarnishing my image and hard-earned reputation.

“For the fact that I am being question by the EFCC doesn’t make me guilty and will not stop my aspiration because I know that I have not committed any crime until it is proved otherwise in the court of competent jurisdiction but everybody is aware that I recently won a case against the EFCC and was awarded‎ with five million naira damages which I am yet to be paid. So they owe me”.

The former FCT minister who boasted of been the closest minister to then President Goodluck Jonathan said, “I tabled a lot of developmental proposals which includes the establishment of additional universities across the country and many others. And I will do same in Bauchi if elected Governor”.