The leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, Sen. Bukola Saraki, who also represents Kwara Central in the Senate has advised the presidency to focus more on confronting the challenges of insurgency, kidnapping and other vices ravaging the country rather than personalities speaking about the inability of the PDP-led. administration to square up to the nation's problems.

This is as he assured Nigerians that the APC has the capacity to contain all the nation's challenges and restore the needed peace and development to the nation when voted into power in 2015.

Saraki, who was a former governor of Kwara state made his views known in an interview with journalists in Ilorin over the weekend, boasting that APC candidates will sweep all the elective positions in the state in 2015 general elections. He, however, stressed that he has no anointed candidates among all those aspiring for various elective posts in the state as they would all be fairly subjected to the test that would produce popular candidates for the party.

Speaking further Sen. Saraki noted that; "the level of insecurity and impunity is a thing that can be done and corrected by the APC led administration. They are not things that we are fabricating. When you make comments they attack you, but that does not change the issue. That is the way they operate. Address the issues and if you are not capable of doing them step aside.

"As a country if a scorecard says a government has not been able to provide security, then honestly that government should be voted out."

He further asserted that he; "always say to people it is not about Jonathan, whoever is the president now whether he is a Muslim, Christian; from the north or south and he is running a government like this then the person has to go. If tomorrow the president becomes born-again then it is a different ball game. But we must talk about issues and that is on ground."

As regards the forthcoming elections in the state, the strong man of Kwara politics said: "We are very prepared. We are waiting for them to bring their candidates. Until we see their candidates I will be able to tell you more. Let them cross that bridge first but we are ready and going ahead to sell our party and candidates to Kwarans.

"In this trying time, it is not a time for trial and error. It is a time for tested hands and when the time comes Kwarans will compare and contrast the candidates,But i can tell you that APC our party Insha Allah will sweep all the polls,because we stand by our people all the time."

He further explained that; "the key issue is that until other actors and actresses in the political space are ready to play a consistent politics of being with the people, not for selfish reason of when they are seeking election the people will not accept them. People are wiser than they think; people appreciate those who are always with them and that is the difference between APC and other parties. That is why come 2015 APC will win resoundingly."

According to the APC chieftain; "the only time you see the PDP doing anything here is only when the president or his wife is coming to Kwara that it holds rallies. It sums up what Kwara PDP is all about. It is not about the people at all. They should go and station their party either in Abuja or Bayelsa.

"I know that Kwarans are cleverer and wiser, they can see what some of us have been talking about. Otherwise, how do you explain when people have opportunity to serve, they give up such opportunity for selfish ambition like is going on now. For me, we are confident here and we have made our point that Kwara is no go area for PDP," he asserted.

Reacting to his recent victory at the supreme court regarding the last election, Saraki described it as a vindication of his testimony that he has the support of the people even as he regretted his inability to reconcile with his contender before the final judgment.

Hear him, "It is unfortunate, we tried before then to find ways internally to have prevented the case from getting to the apex court. It is not because we are weak, but part of our own mechanism of carrying everybody along. A lot of people will bear witness to the series of meetings we attempted to have at that time with the other person to find a way out. The judgement has put the case to rest. Again, it is to tell you that majority of some of those things are propaganda and hype.

"The case was a baseless case and I think that is why the Supreme Court judges in their comments they were very tough and hard on the lawyers," Saraki noted.