THE All Progressives Congress (APC)has brought smiles to the faces of it’s teeming members and supporters to cushion the effects of prevailing economic hardship and in the spirit of the Holy month of Ramadan by donating food items worth millions of naira.
A statement issued by Malam Muhammad Garba, Chief of Staff to the National Chairman of the party, said the distribution of the palliatives, which was flagged off on Saturday in Dawakin Kudu local Government was part of the party’s continued effort to identify with it’s members.
He said the donation was funded by leaders of the party, prominent among them are , the Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin; Chairman House Committee on Appropriation, Hon Kabiru Abubakar Bichi; gubernatorial and deputy gubernatorial candidates of the party, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna and Hon. Murtala Sule Garo respectively.
Other donors are Minister of State Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Dr. Mariya Mahmud Bunkure, her counterpart in the Ministry of Housing Urban Development, Engr. Abdullahi Tijjani Muhammad Gwarzo.
It added that the donation was initiated by the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
The food items distributed included 10, 000 bags of rice, 3, 000 bags of millet, cartons of spaghetti and cash, which will be distributed at state, local government and ward level.
The state chairman of the party , Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas formally flagged- off the distribution of the food items while the chief of staff to the National Chairman, Malam Muhammad Garba coordinated the program with Kano South as the first batch of beneficiaries.
