LOKOJA – Ahead of the APC presidential primaries, persons with Disabilities (PWD) on Friday Stormed National headquarters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to drum support for the Party , president Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Yahaya Bello for the forthcoming general elections.
This is just as they commended them for the roles played for granting free nomination forms and creating employment for members.
“For said Governor Bello to have domesticated the disability law in Kogi State, would do more for us he wins the Presidency.
The chairman Kogi State disability board, Hon Ibrahim Daniel Arome, said the board he chairs was established by Kogi State Governor.
“We want to let everybody know that the inclusion we have been yearning for can only be found in the party APC under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari who made it possible for us to have a voice.
The Executive Secretary of the Kogi State Office for Disability Affairs Barr. Zacchaus Dare Martin said they came to the APC party headquarters to appreciate the leadership of the party for harkening to their agitation to make nomination forms for People Living With Disability, PWD free of charge.
“We made a National protest asking for APC to declare forms free for PWDs and as a listening party they obliged us the request.
“Today, that has in no small measure brought major PWDs who are highly educated and politically agile to showcase their leadership capacity across the states.
“We want them to succeed. Nigeria will never go back to Egypt. Under His Excellency, Dr. Abdullahi Adamu as the National Chairman, APC will coast home to victory in all our elections.
“He gave them appointments as special advisers, senior special advisers, board members and more importantly, he gave them assignments, not in area of disability.
“There is a visually impaired person who is Special Adviser on Media. He does this to show that he believes in their capacity to showcase their potentials.
“More importantly, His Excellency recently established Kogi State Office for Disability Affairs. It is the first of its kind, in the history of Kogi State no agency, no commission, no board has been in charge of PWDs for inclusiveness, but Bello has changed the narrative.
“We are here today to thank him and appreciate him for all he has done and what he is yet to do for us.
“We want to use this window to endorse him for President. We are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to help us garner support for him” He said.
