My Vision: To transform Governance into a viable State Enterprise whose proceeds or Dividend, transforms the citizenry into a viable single class devoid of any form of Social challenges, to develop the created demographic surplus human resources into States ( Countrys ) economic strength . My mission: To leverage our Global, Country-Wide and local exposure advantages to harness to the States advantage , best practices opportunities in harnessing multi-lateral and donor Agencies and local support in developing our Agriculture, Education and Human Capital and our State-Wide Hard (Economic, Urban and Rural) and Soft Infrastructure to transform the State into an economically advanced and self reliant entity. My Mission Program: a. social Security, Local Governments and Rural Development; Under Social Security, specialized Women & Youth Programs shall be generated to address unemployment, while the Local Government Structure shall be enhanced to give better value to Wards and their Developments in a more Institutionalized orientation, while the Rural Developments shall focus in a more institutionalized orientation, while the Rural Developments shall focus more specifically on upliftment of the rural living standards to that of the World Health Organization, UN and other such globally acceptable standards; b. Agriculture; the Soft and Hard Infrastructure components developments, rebuilding the basics from foundation to a sustainable structure; c. Knowledge Sector and Human Capital Development; the Soft and Hard Infrastructure elements to enable us give real and better value to this important sector; d. Development of critical Soft and Hard Infrastructures; This will look at the Key Economic and Social Infrastructure needed to support both Legal and Regulatory sides of most of our priority sectors to enable us to be fully prepared in driving a government that will be self-sustaining and fully independent of the sole funding source the State is dependent upon currently. In other words, we will develop our own version of an Integrated Infrastructure Development Master-Plan. e. Economy; Which will be the life-line of our Administration, looking deeply at every advantage available and at our disposal to take to drive faster & inclusive growth of the States economy and ensure better future for ourselves and our citizens. Details of each of these are fully developed in our Action Plan and shall be made public in our next briefing Insha Allah. My Vision for our State and its future has been deepened and matured over the years. I will be a Leader nit a ruler providing the right leadership with vigor and vision with indeed aggressive drive. A leader who will not be isolated from his people, but will be with them in our pains and our gains, share our dreams and take his strength , wisdom and courage from you. I see a Niger State on the move again, as united, diverse, tolerant, confident and a proudly Niger State. The State will live up to the majesty of its endowments and the decency of its citizens. That is the Niger State we want and that is the Niger State we will have Insha Allah. I am very well prepared and sufficiently exposed to provide and lead the process of Restoration of Niger State to the World Class standard. I therefore urge you all to trust and support us so as to make our VISION a reality and together, we turn Niger State into an emblem of good governance in Nigeria and a model for emulation. I like to share yet another quote with you by Oscar Wilde which says; When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood, it is hard to shake hands with het! I hasten to caution here that there are so many such Liberties around in the name if aspirants to the office of the Governor if all the States of this country. We have to look very hard so as not to shake hands with such, in particular now that there is so much e-Bola around that can lead us to our deaths because we have shaken hands with the wrong Candidates. May the Almighty protect us. My fellow citizens of our great State and other very dear residents of the State, Niger State is our State, we are either born here or we have grown up here, make a living here and have our families here, where we look after each other. The choice for the State to progress or stagnate is dependent on our action. Now that we are presented with the opportunity to make a choice, let us think, reflect, appraise, review and analyze to guide our decision making process to enable us make the right choice so as not to put our lives and our future at stake. Let us join hands together to support and choose Engr Mustafa Bello as our next Governor in 2015 to position the State on the right path. I am not saying I am the best but I believe I present the State with a variety to make a choice and surely I believe my weight on a scale of Quality may outweigh that of all others put together on the other side of the scale. I may indeed be the better Alternative. Thats why I started with first quote in the beginning of the statement. Lastly, and for the benefit of the doubting Thomases, I end with the following quote by late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. which says; The old Law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. We surely need to place the State and its citizens above every fear or interest. I thank you very much for your attention. May Allah SWT Bless us all, Bkess our State and Bless our Country Nigeria. Engr Mustafa Bello, FNSE. October 16th, 2014.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:19:30 +0000