Farmer emerges UPN presidential candidate

The Unity Party of Nigeria on Saturday elected a farmer, Alhaji Ahmed Sakil, as its presidential flag bearer for the 2019 general elections.
Sakil, who was elected at the party’s primaries on Saturday in Abuja, promised to restore the nation’s lost glory in the agriculture, education and health sectors.
He said: “Nigeria has the potential to be a developed nation and lead the way for other African countries to follow.
“This can only be achieved however with a genuine leader that would prioritise the major sectors of the economy that will spur development.
“I am the man that will do the job, I promise to transform all the sectors and declare free education and healthcare systems.”
Sakil, an agro-based businessman, urged Nigerians to ensure to collect and use their voter cards for the elections to enable them exercise their franchise.
The Gombe state-born candidate is also an animal husbandry professional who is into cattle, poultry and horse care.
Prof. Bankole Okuwa, the National Chairman of UPN, said the party was not an ethnic one even though one of its premier leaders was from the South West.
Okuwa said that the candidate had better plans to transform the nation if elected, adding that Nigerians needed to embrace the party that would develop the country.
He said that the nation ought to turn around and much more modernised than its present status.
He said that the party’s ideas would be made into policies that would bring the required progress for Nigeria if given the mandate.
He added: “So as we go into 2019, I urge all citizens to make the right choice for a better nation.”