{"id":167099,"date":"2025-06-16T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/zamfara-risks-loss-without-political-strategy-with-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:16:44","slug":"zamfara-risks-loss-without-political-strategy-with-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-risks-loss-without-political-strategy-with-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara Risks Loss Without Political Strategy with Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Monday, advised Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State to mend his political differences with President Bola Tinubu in the interest of the people of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu warned that the people of Zamfara could lose out on major development if the governor failed to play political economics with the President.<\/p>\n<p>The former Abia governor gave the advice when he commissioned the newly constructed Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development and renovated Zamfara College of Arts and Science both in Gusau, the Zamfara capital.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress said he was not advising the governor to dump his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and join the APC but he should maintain a good relationship with the President who is an APC power broker.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, though he was a PDP memberwhen he was a Governor,, he maintained a good relationship with Tinubu who was of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is not only my brother; he is my friend. People thought we met when we were governors, no. My children used to live in his house. Mrs Tinubu brought those girls up because we were living in Abia but they schooled in Lagos. They lived in Marina, in the president\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever my political differences with the President were, we have healed up and we are one. I want you to heal your political differences with the President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you are PDP. I am APC. The President is APC. Do PDP as a party but do economic development as a Zamfara man so Zamfara can develop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu further urged Lawal to play political economics to get more Federal Government funds for developmental projects in the state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Monday, advised Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State to mend his political differences with President Bola Tinubu in the interest of the people of the state. 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