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Members of market associations and numerous women groups in Kaduna State have reiterated their loyalty and support for President Bola Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani's administration.

Over the weekend, the demonstrators trooped to the Kaduna metropolis in their hundreds to peacefully express their feelings about recent developments in the polity.

The protesters advised Kaduna residents not to be deceived into opposing the incumbent governments at the state and federal levels.

This follows El-Rufai's defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

While announcing his exit from the APC, the former Governor claimed that his decision was influenced by misalignment of values with the ruling party.

Meanwhile, the protesters recounted their ordeals during the previous administration's eight years, alleging that hundreds of market shops belonging to individuals were either seized, demolished or confiscated.

They said the situation triggered ill health in many traders and business owners, leading to paralysis and multiple deaths of their colleagues.

"We’ve been in the market for over 40 years and have never experienced the kind of set backs we suffered under the previous Governor,” Daniel Audu Maigari, a stakeholder of the Kaduna Market associations, has said.

“A lot of lives were lost,a lot of finances were ruined by reason of his kind of policies. We are here to speak with one voice and say that anything that would kind of revive such kind of philosophy in Kaduna market, we don’t want it.”

Explaining further, Maigari said, “this incumbent Governor began by healing the wounds, the wounds that were really severed by the former Governor. Governor Uba Sani has been doing so,so very well and that’s why we’ve been with our leader, Alhaji Abdurrahman Mohammed, who like Governor Sani,has been charting the right course, ensuring programmes and plans that will heal these wounds.”

He added that there has never been a time when they have had the impact of leadership in the Kaduna market like they are now.

” Now we’ve lots of incentives, lots of policies that are driving us to progress .We are now standing with one voice to denounce anything that would reverse this,” he stated.

The protesters later marched to the streets, hoisting placards with various inscriptions denouncing the previous arrangements and chanting slogans supporting Tinubu, Sani and the APC.

zero8zero:
El Midget, a butterfly thinking himself a bird. I want to see how he will build SDP, when he was following leaders of his previous political parties, he thinks it is easy to rally people and build a party. Let's see how SDP will gain political value. SDP youths are already throwing him away.

id4sho:
Jokers , everybody wan chop Jagaban dollars

The street is feed up.

Tinubu vs Nigerians

zero8zero:
El Midget, a butterfly thinking himself a bird. I want to see how he will build SDP, when he was following leaders of his previous political parties, he thinks it is easy to rally people and build a party. Let's see how SDP will gain political value. SDP youths are already throwing him away.

discusant:
Rent a crowd. Most of the people in the crowd would not even know why they were marching.