The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) governorship candidate Alh. Mustapha Sule Lamido has promised to provide free medical care for 70yrs old people and above when voted into power in 2023.
A statement by the Deputy Director, Media and Publicity of the Santurakin Campaign Directorate, Umar Kyari Jitau, quoted the Gubernatorial Candidate, to have dropped the hint while addressing the people of Yankwashi Local Government Area at the ongoing consultation meeting with Local Governments stakeholders.
Lamido said, the policy is meant for the aged in the state to benefit from government’s health programme.
He therefore called on all Jigawa citizens to vote massively for the PDP in the forthcoming elections.
In his address, the chairman of the campaign council, Alh. Isa Duniya Bahutu regretted that APC murdered innocent people along Yankwashi axis as a result of it’s retrogressive boarder closure policy.
He called on the electorates to teach APC a bitter political lesson by rejecting it in the 2023 election.
Earlier, the state PDP chairman, Alh. Ali Idris Diginsa assured that, the party will carry everybody along as he called on the local government officials of the party to ensure that information on all policies and programmes get to the people in the rural areas.
Others who spoke at the occasion include, Dr Babandi Ibrahim, Deputy Gubernatorial Candidate, Hon Nasiru Umar Roni, Director General of the Campaign Directorate as well as Kabiru Nura Dare, PDP youth leader in the state.