Senator, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial zone, Comrade Shehu Sani ,yesterday distributed camels and cows to seven Local Governments under his zone.

Senator Sani, while presenting the camels and cows to representatives of the LGAs and mammoth crowd that gathered to receive him at Zango Live stoke market in Tudun Wada Kaduna, explained rumor of his purported ambition to run for governorship of Kaduna State in 2019, saying: “People are saying that, I am taking advantage of assisting people as a plan for 2019 governorship race. For now, my very important focus is to see how I will use the opportunity of my senatorial seat to serve my people in conformity with the pledges and promises I made to them before the 2015 election.

“You can’t stop people from talking and praying for you, but for now I want to make sure that I please and appease them.”

He said 12 camels and eight cows in addition to food stuffs worth over N15 million have so far been distributed during the month of Ramadan.

“In the last 28 days, my office has been involved in a programme of feeding the poor in the seven LGA of my zone and to my own very ward for them to celebrate Salllah with it. Today I am here to share 12 camels and eight to people within my senatorial district.

“This is in addition to food stuffs of over N15 million distributed since the beginning of Ramadan till date,” he said.

He said he is distributing the camels “because camels symbolises endurance, resilience and courage and this is what all Nigerians need at this very time of Sallah event.”

He expressed hope that the distribution will encourage all elected representatives to do all they can to help the poor at this very time of need when the country is passing through a very difficult moment in history.

“I am here in fulfillment of that very promise to feed my people and to make sure the Sallah turns out to be a memorable one for them and their families. This will continue for the period that I will continue to serve as a senator.

“This is what we need to do to help the poor, even though there was a saying that ‘the poor should be taught how to fish and not to give them fish’, but the poverty in Nigeria has reached a humanitarian state where you need to give them fish to be able to fish,” he added.

•Photo by Abdullahi Garba shows Sen Shehu Sani on the back of one of the 12 camels distributed to his senatorial zone for Sallah . . . yesterday in Kaduna.