Kaduna Senator Rebukes Constituents Who Threatened To Derail 2027 Reelection

Senator Lawal Usman, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, on Tuesday, lambasted a group, Kaduna Central Movement for Development, for threatening to work against his re-election into the National Assembly in the 2027 general elections.

THE WHISTLER reports that KCMD had accused Senator Usman of non-performance and failure to fulfill his campaign promises since his election into the National Assembly in 2023.

But Usman, in a statement titled “Our Response to the Shameless Lies By a Faceless Group, Kaduna Central Movement for Development (KCMD), Against Distinguished Senator Lawal Adamu Usman,” issued by the lawmaker’s Media and Publicity Office in Kaduna, dismissed the KCMD’s threat as “laughable and “infantile.”

The lawmaker stressed that he has brought “unprecedented developments” to his constituency and electorate in the less than two years he has been representing them in the National Assembly.

Accusing the KCMD of deliberately peddling “malicious lies” about him, Usman emphasised that he is too busy with his legislative duties aimed at delivering the real dividends of democracy to his constituency and the Nigerian nation to engage in any argument with “jobless hirelings”.

The statement noted that Senator Usman’s several achievements and developmental feats in less than 24 months have brought great relief to his constituents in the Kaduna Central Senatorial District, who had earlier been unlucky to be saddled with “misfits” who represented them in the National Assembly before his election in 2023.

It noted that the evidence of Senator Usman’s achievements abounds in “various indisputable concrete forms” in terms of his unprecedented constituency projects and empowerment programmes.

“At the risk of sounding immodest, the Kaduna Central Senatorial District, for which the two immediate past senators have no record of achievements they can flaunt, is the same constituency where the people have continued to hail and acknowledge the unprecedented achievements already recorded by the incumbent senator in less than two years in the Senate.

“Parents, students and other constituents in Kaduna Central Senatorial District have continued to shower encomium on their amiable lawmaker, with many beneficiaries of Senator Usman’s various constituency projects and programmes sharing testimonies about how his supporters have positively impacted their lives in different ramifications,” the statement added.

It further stated that for political opponents, particularly the KCMD, to “falsely accuse Senator LA of non-performance is, to say the least, futile, unconscionable and a failed attempt to cover up their sponsors’ gross inadequacies and monumental failure in serving the people when they were given the mandate in the recent past.

“Just like the other belligerent faceless groups, the KCMD, alongside their masterminds, we believe, is suffering from a collective amnesia and intoxicated by the crumbs of the filthy lucre they’re being fed by their sponsors.”

The statement listed Usman’s achievements in the less than two years he had spent as the lawmaker representing Kaduna Central, including “the construction of 100 smart primary school buildings with modern learning facilities, the provision of hundreds of millions of Naira worth of scholarships, the distribution of over 30,000 tonnes of fertilisers to farmers, the provision of over 200 electricity transformers, boreholes for potable water and solar lights, entrepreneurial training and business startup capital for beneficiaries and the sponsorship of hundreds of students for WAEC and UTME (JAMB) examinations.”

According to the statement, in continuation of his gesture of payment of tuition fees of indigent students across the state, the senator has also “fulfilled his promise by giving the sum of between N100,000 and N150,000 bursary allowances to over 200 students in the humanities and sciences, respectively, across his senatorial district, having announced the setting aside of N500 million for settling tuition fees for hundreds of students of tertiary institutions in his constituency.”

The statement further noted that, to facilitate transportation across his constituency, finishing touches are being put to Senator Usman’s plan to construct over 20,000 kilometres of roads traversing the seven local government areas of his senatorial district.

On the lawmaker’s legislative achievements, the press release mentioned Usman’s motion to expedite the reconstruction of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano expressway, which received unanimous approval from the Senate, as well as four crucial motions and four bills currently in their third reading stages.

Kaduna Senator Rebukes Constituents Who Threatened To Derail 2027 Reelection is first published on The Whistler Newspaper