Former Zamfara Speaker Rikiji Donates Foodsfuffs To APC Supporters
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By Aminu Adullahi Gusau.
Former peaker zamfara state house of assembly, and also former chief of staff to the federal house of representatives RT Hon, Sunusi Garba Rikiji has today distributed food items worth millions of naira to his constituents.
Sanusi Rikiji, who is an APC aspirant for Zamfara Central Senatorial Zone in the forthcoming by-election handed over 2,803 assorted bags of Rice and millet as Ramadan package to the leadership of the All Progressive Congress for distribution to his party loyalists.
At the presentation of the foodstuffs held at the APC State Secretariat, Rikiji also announced a cash donation of N1 million from his friend, Musa Mallaha for the purchase of sugar to the beneficiaries across the four local government areas of Gusau, Tsafe, Bungudu and Maru.
According to him, the aim of the gesture is to support the less privileged in the constituency especially during the Ramadhan fast.
He however assured that both his foundation which has now attracted national outlook and his personal goodwill will continue to reach all the constituents in order to reduce the current global hardship facing them.
Rikiji also urged the people to continue to pray for an end to security challenges bedeviling the state in particular and the nation in general.
Receiving the items, the APC state Chairman, Tukur Umar Danfulani call on well to do groups and individuals in the state to emulate the Rikiji.
The chairman expressed confidence in Rikiji’s prowess as a law maker and political leader, promised to give him maximum supports, so that he will win the forth coming national assembly seat by election.
He revealed that so far, Rikiji is the only person from the APC who has formally indicated interest in the Zamfara Central Senatorial Zone by-election which vacuum was created with the recent appointment of Senator Hassan Muhammad Nasiha as the state Deputy Governor.
