YPP Governorship Candidate solicits support for flood victims in Nigeria

The Governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP in Kwara State North Central Nigeria, Alhaji Yakubu Gobir has charged Nigerians not to leave the management of the flooding disasters reported across the country in the hands of the government alone.

According to him, matters of climate change and the attendant human displacements should be tackled with inputs from all.

Alhaji Gobir who is the first  Waziri Karsar of Hausaland made these comments in Ilorin during an interview with newsmen after taking over the completion of the Gambari Mosque which is still under construction.

On the environmental disaster, Gobir said that putting all the blames on the federal government or state governments in the affected areas does not solve the problem.

“It’s about climate change; a phenomenon we don’t fully understand yet, I believe that Nigerians with means must pitch in to support whatever government brings,” he said.

On the Gambari Mosque, which was built about two hundred years ago falls within his constituent,  the governorship candidate who promised to take over the complete renovation of the project,  disclosed that the mosque will gulp about N250m for its completion but lamented that it has been dragging for over three years.

“It’s not about being rich. 

“I am not the richest man in Kwara or Nigeria, but I have always put my money and resources into things that are meaningful and highly beneficial to people” Gobir declared.

According to him, the land on which the Mosque was built, historically, was donated by the Gobir family in the 17th  century stressing that for two centuries, it has been a centre for Quranic Tafsir during Ramadan while Eid-Prayers have been taking place in the Mosque for more than 200years.

Waziri Gobir enumerated that Sheu Alimi, the founder of the Ilorin Emirate also attended Jummat Prayer and Tafsir in the mosque.

The Mosque is now undergoing architectural and structural modifications to reflect its historical status and antiquities, after the foundation laying performed by the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji  Ibrahim Sulu Gambari.

Dominica Nwabufo