3rd May, 2015
Adi Femi/Kaduna
Wife of Kaduna state governor-elect, Aisha Nasir El-Rufai, on Saturday received another solidarity trekker, Haruna Muhammed Salisu, in Kaduna as he journeys from Kano to Abuja in protest against what he termed, “injustice against gubernatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Taraba state, Hajiya Aisha Al-Hassan, during the just concluded Taraba state governorship election.
According to Salisu, he is walking from Kano to Abuja with documented facts on the massive rigging against Taraba APC female gubernatorial candidate, Aisha Jummai-Alhassan to hand over to the party leaders for action.
Speaking to journalists along Ahmadu Bello Way, where she received Salisu, Aisha El-Rufai said she was amazed, seeing a man doing what ordinarily should have been the responsibility of a woman.
“I expected our women to be protesting injustice against a woman in the just concluded governorship election in Taraba state, but Salisu is doing it for us,” she said.
According to her, Salisu is fighting for justice for a woman because he understands the role that women play in the overall development of the society.
While pointing out that what has been done to Madam Aisha is not only injustice but travesty of democracy, she also stressed the need to support Salisu’s protest trek to fight the APC candidate’s cause.
She however promised to support Salisu to ensure that justice is achieved in the end.