Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed yesterday said the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), does not have the wherewithal to wrest power from the All Progressives' Congress (APC) in 2015.

The state chairman of the PDP, Otunba Iyiola Oyedepo, had shortly after his election vowed that his party would soon occupy the government in the state.

But Governor Ahmed described such utterance as wishful, especially from a party whose politicians of substance had left for the progressive platform.

He added that the bloody PDP ward congress in the state bore eloquent testimony to its lack of organisation, purpose and unity.

"It has always been enmeshed in one controversy ever since. The PDP is a rudderless party. All the politicians of substance have moved to the APC," he added.

The governor said this in Ilorin during his radio/television programme tagged the "Governor Explains."

Said he: "This is a people's government and you cannot take a people's government from the people. When you take a people's government from the people, what do you want to give them. We must recognize that Kwara State has come thus far because of transparency, well articulated and marshalled out government process backed by strong political process engendered by All Progressives Congress (APC), and that is what will continue to sustain the state because we have a strong leadership. That leadership has allowed programmes to be articulated.

"It is not enough to just put people togetherl; you need to be organised. What has sustained the state is the structure and the structure was not built by the current leadership. It was built by the late Wazirin of Ilorin, Dr Olusola Saraki. It is that structure that has been sustaining governance in the state and that structure is election winning machinery because it has an all-inclusive platform embedded in it. It has a consultative platform embedded in it. So this allows everybody have a sense of belonging.

"Why do you think the APC congresses from the ward to state went on smoothly in Kwara State? It is because of the all-inclusive platform that has been created and that is what will sustain the state; it has sustained us in the past; it is sustaining us now and it will sustain us in the future. Anything other than that will not be able to sustain Kwara as Kwarans know what they want.

On the current insecurity in parts of the country, Governor Ahmed said recently "the United States of America invited the governors of the 19 northern states to know about the security challenge in the north because what they have been reading largely has been the position of the Federal Government. They want to hear from the perspective of the governors of those states.

"I'm happy to know that the governors outlined some of the security challenges that are facing their states and how they are interlinked with economic and other social activities.

"And the government of America sincerely sympathized with us on the situation we have found ourselves, and they gave their words to do everything humanly possible to help Nigeria overcome it, current security challenges."