Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has said that partisan politics should be played with caution among different state governments to enable Nigerian citizens enjoy benefits of democracy.

Speaking during a monthly radio/TV interactive programme with people of the state, tagged, "Governor Explains", the governor said partisan politics, in a way, would hinder development, adding that people are denied development they ought to attain.    

He said that it would be difficult to find neighbouring states ruled by different political parties execute projects which were desirable for mutual benefits of their people.

"This is so because you can hardly find platform for cooperation and integration because of partisan colouration which politicians and the party supporters would give such move among states of the federation", he said.

Ahmed said neighbouring states, regardless of which parties governs them, ought not to discourage their coming together for execution of projects or programmes that would be of mutual benefit to their economy and welfare of their people.

The governor said that the state own companies now under Harmony Holdings, a firm set by the government to coordinate and manage the companies are now thriving better than they did when they operate individually.

He said that some of the companies which hitherto hardly found fund to run their business now generate substantial fund and make profits.

Ahmed disclosed that the Public Private Partnership Office (PPPO) newly introduced by the government is being set up to shop for investors and to give life back to some of the moribund businesses in the state.

He said that the PPPO would work to help the Harmony Holdings be more efficient by packaging relationship between the state and the private sector and hand it over to the Holdings.