Democracy: In 1999, we started as if we were going somewhere but we have since derailed - Idris - Businessday NG

Abdulkadir Yelwa Idris is the senatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress for Adamawa South senatorial district in the 2027 general election. In this interview with journalist, he spoke on national issues, the ADC, lack of quality representation in his senatorial zone since the inception of democratic journey in 1999. He also said that his senatorial zone which comprises nine local government areas lack federal presence in infrastructural development. He further said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has failed Nigerians. BLESSING ADIMABUA brings the excerpts:

Why do you want to represent Adamawa South Senatorial Zone under the African Democratic Congress come 2027?

Very simple; because since the inception of the current Nigeria’s democratic dispensation in 1999, our representatives have failed to do what they are supposed to do. Then, after I retired as a public servant in 2023, I joined a friend who happens to be the chairman of Senate Committee on Public Accounts in the person of Senator Ahmed Aliyu Wadada. So, it was from there that I got to see and know what a senator can do for his constituency.

With what my principal did then for his constituency, I found out that we are lagging behind especially in the areas of youths suffering abject poverty, no youth skill acquisition programme, no women empowerment programme, and no efforts was made to attract infrastructural development. I can tell you that nothing is happening in the nine local government areas that made up the Adamawa South Senatorial Zone. So, with my experience in that arm of government working with a performing senator, I understood what a senator can do for his people to enhance development, growth and humanity at large especially among youths and women. It’s not because I am new into politics, I was born into a political family because my family was involved in the old NCNC era. So, that is why I have decided to come in now to see the difference I can make in the lives of our people through quality representation at the National Assembly.