By Our Reporters
The Governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP in Kwara State Alhaji Yakubu Gobir, has charged Nigerians not to leave the management of flooding disasters in the country to government alone.
According to him, matters of climate change and the attendant human displacements should be tackled with inputs from all.
Alhaji Gobir who is the first Waziri Karsar of Hausaland and Madawaki of Ilorin made these comments in Ilorin while speaking with newsmen after the official take over of the completion of the Gambari Mosque.
Gobir said that putting all the blames on the federal government or state governments in the affected areas does not solve the problem.
According to him “It’s about climate change; a phenomenon we don’t fully understand yet, I believe that Nigerians with means must pitch in to support whatever government brings,” he said.
On the Gambari Mosque, which was built about two hundred years ago the governorship candidate who promised to take over the complete renovation of the project, disclosed that the mosque will gulp about N250m for its completion.
According to him “It’s not about being rich, the construction of this mosque has been going on for three years.
“I am not the richest man in Kwara or Nigeria, but I have always put my money and resources into things that are meaningful and highly beneficial to people” Gobir declared.
According to him, the land on which the Mosque was built, historically, was donated by the Gobir family in the 17th century stressing that for two centuries, it has been a centre for Quranic Tafsir during Ramadan while Eid-Prayers have been taking place in the Mosque for more than 200 years.
Waziri Gobir enumerated that Sheu Alimi, the founder of the Ilorin Emirate also attended Jummat Prayer and Tafsir in the mosque.
The Mosque is now undergoing architectural and structural modifications to reflect its historical status and antiquities, after the foundation laying performed by the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari.
