Date: 2017-12-28

Stakeholders in the Ilorin Emirate have urged the newly elected executives of the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressives Union (IEPDU) to embark on meaningful projects that will further unite and alleviate the living standard of people of the community.

The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, and a Social Entrepreneur, Alhaji Yakubu Gobir, in their congratulatory message issued on Wednesday urged the new President, Ambassador Sheikh Abdulazeez Uthman to use his wealth of experience to promote the economic activities of the emirate.

Gobir who is also the Waziri'n Kasar Hausa also charged the new executive to quickly address the disturbing situation of unemployment, poverty, youth restiveness, cultism, drug addiction, exhuming of dead bodies and other related crimes in the emirate.

He however congratulated the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari and the entire people of the emirate for the successful and hitch free conduct of the election and urged all sons and daughters of the Emirate to support the new executive and shun all forms of disunity and sentiments.

Similarly, an APC Chieftain, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, in a statement signed and made available to ROYAL NEWS felicitated with the members on their emergence as executive members of the Emirate and charged them to work towards addressing acts that are alien to the Emirate.

According to him, "the new executive under the leadership of Ambassador Sheikh AbdulAzeez Uthman must ensure that insecurity issues such as kidnapping, ritual killings, cultism, drug abuses and other immoral activities that are rampant in the Emirate are urgently addressed with partnership with the state government and security operatives."

Baraje also stressed the need to eradicate the rots in the Emirate, especially lack of respect for elders, youth restiveness , unemployment and disrespect of community heads, saying that "sanctity must be restored to the ancient city".