The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday disclosed a merger plan by the opposition parties to wrest power from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State.

Speaking with members of the Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Ilorin, the state CPC Chairman, Alhaji Suleiman Buhari and the Public Relations Officer, Mr. Obasanjo Alashi, said the planned merger was a response to the failure of PDP in Kwara State.

They said that the PDP might depend on the power of incumbency at the poll, opposition parties had concluded arrangements to end what they described as the anti- people policies of the government which, according to them, started under former Governor Bukola Saraki.

The CPC chiefs said that come October, the opposition would win at least 12 local government areas during the council polls. Buhari and Alashi listed the anti-people policies and programmes of the state government to include the Aviation College, the multi-million naira Metropolitan Square, the Shonga Farm and the Joint Account System "put in place to corner local government fund".

They said it amounted to insensitivity on the part of the government to collect allocations from the federation account on behalf of the people only to use such on white elephant projects that had no bearing on the masses.

Buhari said the people of Kwara State had respect for Dr. Olusola Saraki while alive because of his contributions to the state and not his son, Bukola.

He said: "Bukola can never be a leader here. We are aware of his smokescreen and deceptive projects but now that his father is dead we will reduce him to size, at the right time.

"We will embark on credible agricultural revolution with their products physically available in markets here in Kwara and not in Zimbabwe that we cannot see. "We will also ensure the provision of standard physical infrastructure to the advantage of the common man."