The party was reacting to a statement by Kwara PDP Publicity Secretary, Masiud Adebimpe, which claimed that ACN's defeat in Ondo was a sign that the party stands rejected in the SouthWest including Kwara.

ACNs chairman in Kwara, Kayode Olawepo, said in a statement issued in Ilorin that the PDP ought to be bothered instead by the ineptitude and failures of its government as shown in the widespread protest against its land policy and inability to pay workers for three months running.

The statement read: "Months after shouting itself coarse that opposition does not exist in Kwara State, we are glad that finally Kwara PDP could no longer issue a statement without acknowledging in principle the threat we pose to their irresponsible government built around a political ideology representing underdevelopment, poverty, deceit, oppression and corruption.

"And as the PDP was issuing its baseless statement, the suffering council workers have declared indefinite strike to protest the non-payment of their salaries for three months running.

"While Kwara workers are groaning under excruciating poverty and denial arising from non-payment of their legitimate salary, the PDP rather than bury its head in shame over the failures of its irresponsible government still finds time to attack the opposition in the guise of congratulating Ondo Governor-elect Olusegun Mimiko whose opponent incidentally includes PDP's former Legal Adviser Olusola Oke, who, typical of the lawless nature of the PDP, was arrested in the early hours of Saturday roaming the street against the restriction order.

"We leave the public to judge who is being rejected by Kwara people between the ACN and the PDP whose government has recorded countless uprisings against its policies and is on record to expose the state to national disgrace almost on a monthly basis: from laughable oil discovery claim to CBN blacklist, burglary in the state's Ministry of Finance and theft of documents relating to issues over which its leadership is being investigated and of course incessant workers' protests over non-payment of salary etc. As we speak, Kwara council workers have embarked on an indefinite strike because the government has continued to invent lies upon lies to deny workers their entitlements."