PDP deputy chair supports Mbaka’s prophesy on Dankwambo
The National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Babayo Garba Gamawa, has said that Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe State has what it takes to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari come 2019.
Senator Gamawa spoke with newsmen at the weekend, in Gombe, while reacting to the prediction of Enugu State-based cleric, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, who reportedly endorsed Governor Dankwambo as the next president of Nigeria.
He said the PDP will be glad to have Dankwambo as its flag bearer in 2019.
“Only Allah knows the future, but there are people from different faiths who make predictions which sometimes become real and sometimes don’t. If his (Mbaka’s) prediction becomes reality, we will definitely be glad to have Governor Dankwambo our flag bearer.
“He (Dankwambo) has transformed Gombe State in the past seven years and going by his record, having excelled in his professional career to the rank of Accountant General of the Federation and later governor, he is qualified to be the flag bearer of the PDP come 2019,” he said.
The PDP deputy national chairman said the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration led by President Buhari had been inflicting hardship on the Nigerian masses since coming to power in 2015.
“If you are presiding over the affairs of a government, you are expected to introduce policies that will impact positively on the lives of the populace. You cannot compare life during the PDP and now; things are tough and people are in hardship while prices of goods in the markets have skyrocketed,” he said. as
Gamawa also debunked claims by the APC that the hardship was due to economic recession as result of PDP’s mismanagement of funds.
“Economic recession is not peculiar to Nigeria alone. It is a global phenomenon. If you go through the economic books, recession is something that comes once in a while, whether you apply something or not it will go. But what matters is how you manage the economy to come out quickly.
“Governor Dankwambo knows how to manage finances going by his discipline as a professional accountant and apart from him, we have so many others in our party who have ideas,” he said.
The PDP stalwart said even in the area of insecurity, the APC-led administration was yet to defeat the Boko Haram and tackle other security problems, considering the daily news of killings in different parts of the country.