By Muideen Akorede

The ACN is clearly alarmed that the Kwara State Government's giant strides,  the latest example of which is the prestigious Asteria Grand Prix for A Farm For Africa, is consigning the party to irrelevance in Kwara State. It will therefore stop at nothing to diminish the state government's achievements even where these are obvious to all well-meaning Kwarans. Mr. Dele Belgore is clearly grabbing at straws in challenging the fact that the film, commissioned by former governor of the state and distinguished senator, Dr. Bukola Saraki during his tenure as Governor, beat 200 other entries to win a Grand Prix Award at the prestigious Deauville Green Awards, held in North France, last week.

Again, ACN has demonstrated its unseriousness by using the prejudiced tweets of its paid hacks on social media site, Twitter, for a feeble attack on the state government and distinguished Senator Bukola Saraki. As the representative of the state government at the event, I wish to state with all emphasis at my disposal that I received a Grand Prix for A Farm for Africa, which is a documentary film on the revolutionary Shonga Farm project in front of crowd of film producers, government officials and representatives of non-governmental organisations. Clearly, ACN and its leaders are the ones peddling falsehood here.

As everybody can tell, ACN Kwara has been rendered comatose by inordinate ambition of its leaders which demonstrates a bid for power for its sake rather than with a vision for transforming Kwara State such as demonstrated by former Governor Bukola Saraki and upscaled by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed.

Again, ACN and its leaders are playing ostrich by denying what is obvious to all in Kwara State: that its members, confronted by the party's decline in Kwara State and the turmoil caused by the hustle for the party's 2015 ticket by Belgore and others, are daily defecting to the winning PDP. The PDP which demonstrated such a huge capacity to transform Kwara State in tangible and long-term basis that dazed ACN members are daily seeking refuge in the only party capable of meeting their aspirations for good governance.

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