Kogi: Disability Network Launches Team for Re-Election Campaign

“But our story does not end at the national level. Here in our dear Kogi State, the commitment to disability inclusion was further demonstrated under the administration of the former Governor, His Excellency Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello, CON, who replicated this commitment within the state and took steps towards establishing the Kogi State Office for Disability Affairs as an important institutional platform for advancing disability inclusion,” Nazir noted.

While appreciating the APC administrations in the state for giving political consideration to the community of persons with disabilities in Kogi State in the past decade, the Director-General expressed satisfaction with the level of political patronage extended to the PWDs in APC, adding that “much is given to us, and we must give much more to the Tinubu and Ododo administrations.

“It is under the APC-led administration in Kogi State that persons with disabilities began to receive greater recognition in the area of political inclusion and participation,” Nazir expatiated.

Speaking at the inauguration, Senior Special Assistant to governor Ahmed Usman Ododo on disability matters, Mukaila Sheidu said the Kogi State government is building a comprehensive database of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the 21 local government areas of the state to enhance government intervention programmes for the members of the disability community in state just as the state government intends to improve economic planning for general wellbeing of the state.

Secretary of the campaign network, Ibrahim Daniel Arome, said the PWDs in Kogi State would give over one hundred thousand votes to Tinubu in the forthcoming presidential election.