Borno: Foundation tips ex-Accountant-General Dikwa as Zulum’s successor

Ahead of 2027 governorship election in Borno State, a group on the platform of Advocate for African Development Foundation (AADF), has called on all stakeholders in Borno state to ensure that a technocrat and former Accountant General of the Federation, Dr. Muhammed Kyari Dikwa succeed the incumbent Governor Babagana Zulum in the state.

The group said it will a disaster if an illiterate or someone without requisite experience is allowed to succeed a Professor who has performed creditably well in the state.

Addressing a press conference Wednesday in Abuja, National Coordinator of the Foundation, Aaron Mike Odeh, described Dr. Dikwa as a thorough bred technocrat with wide experience in human capacity building and community development.

The organiser said the press conference was organise to appreciate gesture of Dr. Dikwa through his Humanitarian gesture across the country.

According to Odeh, the former Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Finance through his Al-Ansar Foundation has built private University in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State where housands of Nigerians and especially indigenes of Borno State are also on studies scholarship both at local, national and internationally.

“The philanthropic work he has carried out via the Al-Ansar foundation which he founded many years ago to render humanitarian services to Nigerians across board and especially Nineteen Northern State and the people of Borno state in particular. Prominent among them which made our organizations to stage this timely press briefing are: creations of security jobs for over twenty thousand Nigerians through Al-Ansar Security guards.

“Already some of the private security personnel has been posted to provide security of lives and properties at Niger State, Adamawa, Bauchi, Taraba, Borno, Yobe, Lagos, Gombe, Kano etc. Al-Ansar Foundation which he established has also made significant impacts through the construction of schools in Abuja, Suleja in Niger State, Kaduna, Kano, Yobe and Borno State.

“Al-ansar Foundation has distributed thousands of bags of rice, grains and other food items as palliatives to Nigerians and in particular Borno State indigenes to cushion the hunger effect. The place of spirituality wasn’t also exempted in view of the fact that Al-ansar foundation has built so many mosque in Borno State, Kano, Niger, Yobe etc.

“There, we the entire member of Advocate for African Development Foundation wishes to use this medium, to endorse Dr. Muhammed Kyari Dikwa MNI, as the next Executive Governor of Borno State.”