‘Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
Women in Kwara State in their scores have declared their supports for the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ahead of Saturday’s election.
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 the state capital, in support of the APC candidate promising that their votes would be for the APC candidates in both Saturday’s Presidential/National Assembly as well as the March 11 governorship elections.
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Focal Person of the group, Dr. (Mrs.) Rabiat Shehu-Jimoh, who led the rally to the private residence of the AbdulRazaqs, in the Surulere area of 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 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 to the people of the state saying 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.
“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 9CCT)”, they said.
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The women disclosed that the number of beneficiaries under the school feeding programne was 1,167, and 95,665 students being fed daily as well, through the programme.
Also, under N-GEEP they said they had about 3,064 beneficiaries under CCT which are are 24,324 altogethet pointing out that in the N-Power programme, no fewer than 26,147 had benefited.
