Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Monday charged the newly elected local government chairmen to prioritize service delivery to the people at the grassroots and look beyond partisanship in the discharge of their mandates.
He congratulated them on their emergence from the 2021 local government elections which the state conducted using electronic voting, for the second time after its introduction in 2018.
El Rufai also reminded them that God who entrusts power to whom He chooses, has chosen them to be the leaders of all citizens in their local government areas without regard to their political, ethnic or religious persuasions.
The governor reiterated that the chairmen are now custodians of a sacred trust so they must be fair, just and reasonable in all their dealings, decisions and interactions.
He warned them not to discriminate against those that did not vote for them, neither should they favour those with whom they share the same ethnicity or religion as that will offend their oath of office.
The governor who gave these counsel while swearing in 16 chairmen who were elected on the platform of APC and five who were voted under the PDP ticket, noted that elections could not be conducted in Birnin-Gwari due to security concerns while the outcome in Jaba is subject of litigation.
