Kwara ACN on Sunday dismissed as outright lies the many achievements the PDP-led state government claimed to have made in the past one year, especially in the areas of road, education, healthcare, water and other public infrastructure.

The party said it delayed its assessment of the Ahmed administration in honour of "our compatriots who died in the air crash penultimate Sunday." In a detailed sector-by-sector analysis of the government's activities, the ACN said the government could only be given a pass mark in the areas of propaganda, corruption, empty sloganeering, dubiously high debt profile and mismanagement of public fund.

"Their claims in education, human capital development and youth empowerment, economic growth, strategic infrastructure, quality health care, water supply and agriculture are bogus, and the government tells lies against itself," the party's chairman, Kayode Olawepo, said in the statement issued to the media on Sunday.

He added that "the days leading to May 29 were filled with all manners of praises for Kwara Governor. Radio and television airtime and newspaper space were bought to list the achievements of the administration, even when citizens groan about the rising poverty, unemployment, corruption and mismanagement of public funds."

Laughing off the government's claim of constructing over 600kilometres of road in the last one year, Olawepo said: "The government, on May 29, 2012, listed the Ijomu-Oro as one of the roads it built. No such thing exists! This is an open challenge to the government. When last has any government official gone to Abuja through Osi to Eruku? Is any of them from Offa and Erinle to know the state of the road? Most of the top government officials are from rural areas, we ask them what is the state of the Edidi to Odo-Eku Road, Obo–Ile to Isapa, Osi to Obo–Aiyegunle.

"The government's claim on free education is false as parents still pay for their pupils in public schools. Its claim on the issue of payment of NECO/WAEC fees is absolutely false as it remains in the realm of political intention and pronouncements. Parents paid the fees and they are not yet reimbursed. Yet this government has already claimed it as an achievement. Furthermore on education, apart from the fact that for some years there has been no evidence that the government of Kwara State contributes its own counterpart fund to the funding of Universal Basic Education in the state, the government recently directed school heads to generate fake figures on enrollment in supplied registers to all schools in Kwara State.

"What we still have under this sector is a policy of alienation of the over one million Kwara indigenes and residents that have one thing or another to do with agriculture. Government in continuation of its ‘foreigner-based' commercial farming have now brought into Kwara State one Vasolar Consortium of Spain for rice cultivation, processing and packaging. We have since made clear that the group is either nonexistent or has no record in rice production. Yet the Ahmed government is committing Kwara's seven million euro (N1.37b) and 20,000 hectares of public land to this project. They also intend to bring into Kwara State Mosib Group from the United States. All the above are joint venture relationships. The two promise to be another Shonga Farm which has variously been described – and rightly so – as a fraud or a rip-off. And in any case, we wonder why they need be listed as achievements of government as they are not yet on the ground but in the realm of contemplation. But the question that ought to be asked is: what has the government of Kwara done for the teeming population of Kwara farmers?

"Year in year out from the administration of Governor Shaaba Lafiagi in 1992 to the present government, water remains a great and seemingly unsolvable problem of Kwara State. If Governor Ahmed lays any claim to an achievement in this sector, where is the water?

"The last one year for the people of Kwara State is not a period of shared prosperity which is the mantra of the administration. Nothing is working whereas people in government are churning out fake statistics that conflict with the reality on the ground. What is being shared in Kwara State is not prosperity but poverty, pains, hardship and hopelessness? If this government deserves to be praised for anything, it is for its ability to make false claims and celebrate corruption. In fact, Kwarans are embarrassed at the shamelessness of our government which, for want of any verifiable achievements, in rolling out the drums for mere unveiling of a new logo, which, together with the empty noisemaking of May 29, cost Kwara people a whopping N31m. Kwara definitely cannot continue like this, 45 years after it became a state. Our people deserve a better deal!"