Alhaji Lado Danmarke, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governor in Katsina, stated that if elected in 2023, his administration would place a high priority on infrastructural development as well as the security of people's lives and property.
Banditry, terrorism, and other sorts of criminal activity, according to Danmarke, who was speaking in an interview in Abuja, have negatively impacted the state's governance and infrastructure provision.
He claimed that like most states in the northwest, Katsina experiences a problem with insecurity brought on by the actions of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, and rustlers.
As a result, he lamented that thousands of lives have been lost, kidnapped or maimed since the challenge started about a decade ago, with scores of residents that have now deserted their various communities.
Danmarke insisted however that despite the years-long security problem, the challenge can be overcomed in the state.
According to him, “the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), in the state has exhausted all its ideas on how to tackle the problems.