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I’m pleased to be associated with your successes, initiatives, Buhari tells el-Rufai

President Muhammadu Buhari, has expressed pleasure in being associated with the successes and initiatives of the Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai. Buhari, in a release by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, said this yesterday as he continued the inauguration of projects executed by the Kaduna State Government, with stops at Zaria, heaping encomiums on Governor Nasir el-Rufai, saying ‘‘I am pleased to be associated with your successes and initiatives.’’ Speaking at the palace of the Emir of Zazzau, Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, the President noted that within the context of scarce resources and prevailing economic reality, the Kaduna State government has done well for the people.

‘‘As they say in Hausa ‘Gani ya Kori ji’ (seeing is believing),’’ he said. The President, who is on a four-day official visit to the State, on Thursday commissioned projects in Kafanchan and Kaduna metropolis in the State. On Friday in Zaria, the northern senatorial district of Kaduna, the President inaugurated the remodelled Sabon- Gari Market with 3,400 shops; the Circular Road with two spurs on River Road and Kufena Road; and the Queen Elizabeth Way. At the Sabon-Gari Market, President Buhari, while appreciating the governor for rebuilding one of the oldest markets in the State and paying compensation of over N300 million to traders, jocularly said he would consider opening a consultancy service in the market, where a ‘‘Presidential Block’’ is named after him. In his remarks, Governor el-Rufai recalled that in August 2019, the President was in Zaria to commission Phase 2 of the Zaria water project, providing a basic amenity that was not available for residents of Zaria for over 30 years.

‘‘Our State is an agricultural State and this Emirate is associated with farming. We know Mr President’s passion for agriculture and we are grateful you appointed a son of the State to head the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. ‘‘We look forward to more agricultural interventions in the State,’’ the governor said, pledging that the people of Kaduna and their elected representatives will continue to stand by the principles and values associated with the President: honesty, integrity and commitment to public service. The Emir of Zazzau thanked the President for the intervention of the Federal Ministry of Health in providing a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, in line with the desire of the people of Zazzau.

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