The Hausa community in Rivers State has thrown their weight behind the Accord Party Governorship candidate, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs in the forthcoming 2023 election.
The community stated this when Lulu-Briggs visited them at the Sariki Hausa’s Palace in Port Harcourt to mark the EID-AL-ADHA.
Leader of the community, Alhaji Issa Madaki, represented by Alhaji Haliu Usman, stated that the Hausa community will only support a candidate who is detribalized and willing to carry every Rivers person along irrespective of their tribe and religion.
According to him, “This time around, with the new electoral act, we are not looking for party, we are looking for the personality. We really appreciate him, he’s part of us. We are going to tell our people to vote for him.”
On his part, Lulu-Briggs, reiterated his commitment to recognize every Rivers resident as part of the Rivers project.
“I came to celebrate with my family, the Hausa community in Rivers State. By the special grace of God, when we win the election, we must remember that the Hausas and the Fulanis and all other tribes that live amongst us are part of the Rivers story. They are Rivers indigenes; how do you tell Baba (Sariki Hausa, Alhaji Issa Madaki) that he’s not a Rivers man? He’s been here since the 60s and the 70s.
“By the special grace of God, when we win elections, we’ll take it a step further by ensuring that for the first time we have someone from the Hausa extraction as Commissioner in Rivers State. We have said that in the government we are going to form, we shall use the best to work for the rest of us.
“So, if the best is found amongst our northern brothers, then we’ll use that person to develop the state. That is the type of state we want to build; a state without borders; where everybody is welcomed.”
