Senatorial candidate Abdullahi visits victims of Alanamu fire incident, donates #2.5m relief 

By Jimoh Sulyman

The Kwara Central senatorial candidate under the umbrella of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has donated a sum of N2.5 Million, to support victims of the Alanamu fire incident which occurred last week.

Abdullahi a known philanthropist stretched forth his supportive hands to the victims on Friday during his commiseration visit to the Alanamu community, to sympathize with them over the unfortunate incident which he described as unfortunate.

Speaking at the home of the Balogun of Alanamu, Dr Usman Abubakar Jos, Abdullahi said donating to victims of any tragedy should be genuinely done for the love of the people, and not for political calculations.

He said since the Alanamu incident, politicians that were never seen in the area before now have been falling over themselves to prove that they are generous people.

He noted that during COVID-19 outbreak, rainstorm ,flood among other disasters in the past, most of those who are now demonstrating overnight generosity, were never there for the people.

He said, “We have come to commiserate with family, to commiserate with our father, Balogun and to also see what we can do to support the people.

“As you can see, since the incident of Alanamu happened, you can see that politicians that we have never saw before have been falling over themselves proof now that they have been generous to the people.

“But, when covid happened, we didn’t see them but we are here, when rainstorm happened that peoples roof were blown away we didn’t see that but we are here. So I can understand why politicians will think that it is necessary for them to play politics with peoples hearten.

“But for us, we have come home to commiserate with our people, so it is not about the politics of today.” The former commissioner said.

He however cautioned politicians, to stop attempting to dance on people’s tragedy in an effort to make political points. He therefore, restated his commitment and continued support to the community as he has always done.

Abdullahi then went ahead to make the donation relief to the affected families and persons whose businesses were affected in the fire incident and the development of the community.

The former Minister’s donation was distributed as follows; Victims of the fire incident got N1m, orphans got N500,000, Alanamu Traders were given N500, 000, PDP Alanamu ward got N200, 000, the Women were given sum N100, 000 while the community Youths got N100, 000.