Kaduna State Governor, Mr. Ibrahim Patrick Yakowa has promised that Nigeria will enjoy a stable power supply by the year 2015. This was just as he said that the country’s power supply has improved since the inception of the government of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Making this pledge at the 2011 anniversary of the Northern peoples Frontier called Zumunta in Atlanta during the weekend, Yakowa said that power was the key to the economic transformation of any country, and noted that the President and his Vice, Namadi Sambo, would ensure that this vital resource was addressed to an achievable point.
The Governor also said that the federal government, in conjunction with the state governments has began to make efforts to ensure that the country enjoyed full and uninterrupted power supply before the end of the administration in 2015.
He also said that the Northern Governors, under the umbrella of the Northern Governors Forum (NGF), would as well as other areas received special attention and stressed that the Forum has been able to organise summits on the area of farming due to the potentials that the Northern areas have for agriculture.
Also, the National President and the National Public Relations of the association, Dr. Ezekiel Macham and Mrs Lami Dogonyaro respectively promised that the group would continue to cultivate programmes that would uplift the Northern states of the country.
They further said that they would also continue to reach out to leaders in the country in order to know the areas to support them in implementing programmes that would bring about improvement in the social and economic welfare of the people.
The Vice President’s wife, Hajiya Amina Sambo,who said in her own reaction that the forum was an opportunity to discuss the Vision 20:2020 and the challenges faced by the country added that the Vision 20:2020 could only be realised through the collaboration of the government and the existing Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
She observed that some of the organs of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were dedicated to the affairs of women and children and added that the federal government has developed a national gender policy to identify some of the challenges of women, gender equality, domestic violence and other issues.
The Nigerian Ambassador to the United States who was represented by Ambassador Zango A. Abdu at the occasion said that Nigerians living in the US were ready to come home to develop the good agenda of the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ambassador Zango also urged the group to work together with the federal government in order to foster a better Nigeria.
The Consul-General of Nigeria in Atlanta, Honorable Geoffery I. Teneilabe urged them to open the door of Zumunta to every Nigerian who wanted to come in and added that it should not be limited to the Northerners alone or made a regional thing.
He promised that the Nigerian Consulate in Atlanta would continue to work with the association in order to ensure a better Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the Mayor of the City of Riverdale in Atlanta, Dr. Evelyn Wynn Dixon urged Nigerians to engage in inculcating their culture in others and said that the theme of the convention was an appropriate one for all the important work that the Zumunta association has done towards the advancement of the Nigerian community in the United States.
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