 Still, plus politics, my name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. Constituency projects are critical to national development as they are one of the means by which the federal government intends to take development to the nooks and crannies of the country through active involvement of the senators and honorable members of the National Assembly. In Nigeria, we still have issues of responsiveness of the electorates to voting and approach to choice of candidates of various parties in various states. Well, joining us to discuss this is Tua Fik, or Gunjimi, PDP House of Assembly candidate at Beokutin North Constituency. Welcome to the program, Tua Fik. Good evening, sirs. Good evening, viewers. Okay. You are contesting to run for office, and we're wondering, let's just get to know why you decided to take up these race as it is, this journey. Well, my party of years, I was a banker, and going through the marketing aspect of banking helped me to know what are the issues affecting some of our people living in the rural areas and the urban areas. And because of it, I interacted with some farmers, which I know Nigeria's system has had today is not good for them. And there's a need for somebody to champion their course. And I think part of the reason why I decided to put myself forward for our elected post is to put an end to some of these issues I discovered in the course of my banking career. There are so many others like that. I work with the marketing team, and I know I have to suffer to go first to do their businesses. Many bankers are interacting with so many foreign organizations that are doing lowest interest rate for developing countries. And I think I can also bring that to a close when I'm elected as a member of the first person. Okay. The problems that you have identified, border on agriculture and economy and all that, what are the things that have you seen? Have you identified in a Bikuta not constituency that you think you can address when you get there? My local government has system works. 12 of the works are in the urban areas, while the four are in the rural areas. The four in the rural areas, what they go through on daily basis to make a living is very, very tasking. And a person who has the feelings of others attacked, you also want to find solutions to some of these problems. And you cannot do it except in a relative position that you can move forward some of these issues to be considered in the house. Others who are also part of it can also reason along with you to find solutions to them. That's why. Secondly, the youth in my local government currently, as it affects almost all parts of the country, their jobless, we have to find a way to bring them to sense. Some of their house, in fact, some of them, they have ideas that prepare this country forward. There must be a way to bring all of them together and reason with them, make a policy that will help them to live. Well, sometimes in the political space, what a lot of people are interested in is antecedents. Since you're trying to come into that political space and be the member representing a Biokutan-NOT constituency, so many people would like to know who you are. What are the antecedents that you think will make people vote for you? Okay. My name is Tafi Polada, I'm from the family in Nagorno. Biokutan-NOT for the states. I was born over 50 years ago, had my primary education. I was in primary school. Yeah, before we go into all that. Before we go into all that. My university education. I'm going for that. It's a bank grant. Okay. So I'm in my university education. In my primary, in my early age, after the university, I was into banking for 20 years before I resigned. And then my political journey started in 2016. However, before then I've been to other parties and politics, but in full-time politics, I started in 2016. And by 2019, I contested for House of Assembly. In Nagorno-Kutan-NOT under Action Democratic Party. Which I didn't know. By 2019, I joined PDP. And I was able to also predicate again. That's the background. Well, thank you for the background. Now, we've heard, because we're concerned about your chances in that election, the SDP we have heard has endorsed the PDP candidate, Ladi Adebutu. Meanwhile, the LP has endorsed the APC candidate, Dacoab Yodun, who happens to be the incumbent right now in Nagorno-State. Incumbent, yeah. How do you think that will play out knowing that LP is like the beautiful bride now? LP is like the most valuable player in 2023, according to some people, 2023 elections. That is a formidable force that you are contending with. How do you think your chances are in the forthcoming election on the 18th of March 2023? In my local government, the total number of votes cast for Labour Party, we know the figure. And in Nagostate too, we sum them up. We know what the figures are. So that does only because they have won in Lagos State and the rest. That means they have won in all parts of the country in Nagostate. They have marginal figures. So it's not a threat. It's not a threat to us. It's not a threat. So the PDP chances are high, according to what you are seeing? Very, very high. But you are contending with the incumbent governor. Our governorship candidate, Adebutu, is a man of the people. I can tell you. I can assure you, this time next week, when we will be at the peak of the preparation, the rating by death, we will tell you that time. Today, we will win over 60. If Adebutu is a man of the people, what are those things that you think will make the people really vote for him? What are the things that you think people love about him that will make him vote for him and his party, which you also are a part of? Because if it affects him, it affects you too. Yes, it's a philanthropist. He has never been an executive man in any government establishment. And I want the dose, in terms of welfare, every listen of the people. He has no equal in the government. I can tell you the transformers that he has donated to so many communities, over 300, over 300. And he has done those things without looking back. He is not the person that will respect the touch from those things or people to pain. He's just fortunate that time is contesting now. He has done that in the past 10, 15 years. He has done that on his own. He believes in human welfare. A man, a woman, people must live well. So there are aspects for him, and he's praying for the party. Okay, 18th of March is still some days away. Are we looking at more alignments and realignments with some parties, more collaborations with other parties, or you're just comfortable with the SDP endorsing your candidate, and that's all? Are you in talks with other parties? 46 is a continuous exercise. We'll keep on talking, keep on talking, keep on talking. Today, before I'm live now, we are just coming from a place. We are going to talk to one of our leading leaders in the street too. And the governor is there with him. And so many other groups like that, we have talked to them. We'll keep on talking with the other political parties that are interested in us, with the D.C. and the rest, and the rest. We'll keep on talking. 24 hours in politics is a long time. So many of the things you are hearing now, these are these. Within 24 hours, the co-post can see change. Interesting. Politicians can never cease to amaze me with their bra-cadabra that they do. But now, PDP is going into an election with the incumbents. APC is on the throne as it were. And there are so many other parties, no matter how small they might be. But you are going into this election brandishing a manifesto, which others are also brandishing anyway. What is it in your manifesto, the PDP manifesto, that is different from all the other ones that other parties will show the people? What are the things that you intend to do as a party that gives you an upper hand as it were? Our slogan is food for all. Food for all. And you know that this says, when you have food, half of your problem is solved. When you are welfare, the half of your problem is solved. So we are going to food-skilling agriculture that will provide food for everybody, and that is the most important. People are hungry now. You know people are hungry. People are hungry because of living. In fact, you know what the country is, the state is. So you know what we are saying. Once we are sworn in May 29, we will quickly move into action. And then before six months, we will start seeing the effect of our governance. How do you intend to do that? Food on the table is very vague. It's like in the other time, in the one administration that said stomach infrastructure, that's how it is sounding. Eventually it was also a PDP governor. Now when you say food on the table, how are you going to do it? Is it that you are going to give us a father rise or you are going to give us Gary on our table? No, I just told you. What strategies are you going to use to provide the food on the table? Once everybody, once everybody, yes, you know, once the conditions for people to do their business is well spattered, people will take advantage of it and we start those who want to do farming, those who want to do business, those who want to do trading, those who want to do this, once the environment, for instance now, if farmers have rights to lose to spend on their farms in six months, six in a year, that would be better than what it is to do. Once a woman can get lose from banks at the lowest rates or from our agency at the lowest rates, then this has to improve. Once youth also can go into any vocational training or whatever that they want in life and there is support from government for them, the taste will change and everybody will have money in their pocket and once you have money in your pocket you have food on your table. Is the environment, is the policy, once the policy is flexible for everybody to come into everybody, we are in this country, we are in the field, in 1999, you know how the policy is. Once people are not satisfied with Gudansban and the Guamari and other one and they start getting between my old one, they will know that one is better than the other. Okay, we were just afraid that okay, at the national level you had problems and those problems were not addressed and those problems may have contributed to your performance at the national level. I hope it's not going to be the same at the state level that we are talking about right now. We wish you luck, you and your party, we wish you luck and may the best man win, that's all we can say. Everything, power comes from God as we say. Thank you so much. I am the best man I will win. I am the best man I will win. Thank you, Taufiko Gunjime for coming on the program today. Thank you. We've been talking with Taufiko Gunjime, PDP House of Assembly Candidate at Biokuten North Constituency and that's how we wrap it up today on the show. We leave you with highlights of the week. My name is Nyam Ghul Aghaji. Members of the Labour Party today are already identifying with the PDP. We are only talking about the candidate himself. The candidate himself has an internal issue within the party to resolve and it has nothing to do with us and we don't want to get into it. We don't want to be involved in that internal issue of the Labour Party. As many members of the Labour Party in later states who are willing, who are happy to support in dislodging the people that have held the state by the jugular over the 24 years, of course we are hoping to welcome them and work with them in Labour and let them stay. It is you and I that cause this trust of the judiciary and it is people like PDP Elements, like people in PDP. When I say you and I, I'm not talking about you in person. I'm talking about the average Nigerian about our people. It is only when it pays us that democracy is flourishing. The moment we don't get the results we anticipate. We say democracy is under attack. Democracy is under siege. No, it's not over. I made a promise when I became 50 years old last year that I will spend the rest of my life surfing the country. So I spent 50 years growing up and taking care of myself, so I'm fine. So I will spend the rest of my life surfing the country. But surfing the country is not always I must have the government. What I'm doing now is public service, I believe so. And we have said enough not only me, other people. So all of this that AINEC is doing is really medicine after death. These elections have been really below the standard whether international or even African standard. But of course we've had some bodies like ECOWAS and the African Union and the Commonwealth saying that they were largely peaceful. Former President Aboumbeki said that and also President Baikoroma former President Baikoroma of Sierra Leone. But as a party we believe that these elections the presidential elections have not been conducted in the manner and way that AINEC particularly the chairman Professor Mahmoud Yakubu told us that the results would be uploaded from the polling units to the IRF. So I think preventing conflict is going to have a lot to do with AINEC being more transparent about how it is handling this material. What is it going to do when it tries to wipe the BVAS machines in preparation for the gubernatorial elections. It's promising to have all that backup data available. I think AINEC is going to need to be much more transparent than it has been so far in this process. I think a lot of the conflict and violence that we've seen so far was a result in part because AINEC was not especially transparent about this data over recent days. I think if AINEC had been a little bit more straightforward about what was happening a lot could have been prevented. This election left to me as the first thing is probably the serious election in the history of this country. I'll give you a few reasons why. First time that seven sitting governors have failed in their bid to go and retire in the Senate. Seven of these seven governors have not seen one of them to come out to say I was unfairly beaten because they knew to be beaten fair and square. In last hour, the former governor of last hour lost his election to an SDP member. SDP.