The Zamfara State Coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Kabir Marafa, has said efforts of everyone who worked for the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu will not be in vain because Tinubu had promised to change the reward system.
According to Marafa, Tinubu has put machineries in place to strengthen the reward system of the All Progressives Congress and would not encourage the trend of ‘Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop.’
Marafa, a former Chairman of the Senate Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources, stated this while addressing Zamfara State members of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council on Tuesday night in Abuja.
The event was organised to celebrate Tinubu’s victory and successful inauguration.
Hundreds of the Zamfara PCC members, including women and youths from across the 14 LGAs of the state, attended the event.
The PUNCH reported that while Tinubu won Zamfara State during the presidential poll, the APC lost the governorship election in the state to the Peoples Democratic Party.
There were also concerns in the APC that long-standing members who have laboured for the party do not get rewarded, while new entrants get juicy positions in government.
But Marafa told the APC faithful that Tinubu’s Presidency would right the injustices of the past.
He said, “Mr President said I should tell you that he is still on his promise to change the reward system of government. Mr President appreciates what Zamfara State did. The President has the people of the state in his mind; he is a person that appreciates people, he is the President of the whole country, not for Zamfara alone.
“I have told him everything, he is aware of the anti-party activities committed in the state and he knows the perpetrators and everything. The era of ‘monkey dey work, baboon dey chop is over’.
“Some people were given an assignment and they failed woefully; we were given an assignment and we delivered triumphantly. So, we thank God and I want to assure you that the President has Zamfara in his mind.”
Various leaders of the party, including Alhaji Abdullahi Shinkafi, who spoke during the event, extolled the virtues of the immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, and expressed optimism that the APC would regain the state at the Election Petition Tribunal.
