No second term for Kwara governor, says PDP

Date: 2014-11-30

Kwara State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has declared that the incumbent governor of the state, Ahmed Abdulfatah, won’t be re-elected in 2015 because of what the party perceived as his failure in office.

Speaking with Saturday Independent during an exclusive interview, the chairman of the party, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, rubbished the endorsement of the governor, who recently declared his intension to seek re-election as the consensus candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), saying; “His endorsement by his leader, Bukola Saraki, was just a mere autocratic and selfish pronouncement which the people of Kwara State will reject at the poll in 2015.

“Our party will reclaim the stolen mandate the governor and his godfather, Bukola Saraki, took to the APC. The governor has nothing to show to the electorate. The roads in the state are bad, students scored less than 10 per cent in West Africa Examination Council Result, primary schools are dead and there are no adequate health facilities in the state, as there are no drugs for the people.

“Governor Ahmed has failed the people of Kwara South where he hails from. Nothing to show in that area, I am from there too. They deceived the state by bringing in just 15 farmers from Zimbabwe and siphoned millions of naira into a failed agric project. In my own house, like most Kwarans, I am both the local and state governments because I provide my own water, security and road network.

Oyedepo said: “ What PDP is asking for is just a level playing ground for people to cast their votes. Tell Saraki, the person you called giant, that nothing lasts forever and that by 2015, we are going to defeat APC in this state.

In his reaction, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ahmed, Wahab Alabi Oba, faulted the PDP chairman’s claims, stating that both the governor and Saraki were not gold diggers and reeled out some achievements of the governor in health, agric, education, infrastructure and other sectors across the three senatorial zones in the state.

He said the duo, because of their commitment to democratic tenets, teamed up with other Nigerians in APC to salvage the nation from the misrule of PDP.

Alabi said: “The submissions of the Kwara PDP that Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed will not get a second term as the governor of Kwara State because of failure of budget performances since he assumed office, is not only shallow, unsustainable and unverifiable but it’s also untrue. Though the burden of proof is squarely on those who alleged, we make bold to say that the governor has kept faith with his pledge to the people and has religiously implemented the budgets based on inflow of resources, especially from the Federal Government.

“For the records, the administration, for instance, upped the ante of rural electrifications through the procurement and installation of transformers in over 159 communities across the state. Additional 100 transformers have been purchased, awaiting installation. The logic is that rural electrification will enhance development and Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the nooks and crannies of the state.”

“Similarly, roads are been constructed and rehabilitated as a means of driving and promoting socio-economic development of the state. Thus, over 800 kilometres of urban and rural roads as well as federal roads, that ordinarily is the statutory responsibility of the PDP run Federal Government, are been touched for the good of our people,” asking;  “What has the PDP stalwarts done to prevail on their masters in Abuja to attract federal attention?”

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