The Kwara state government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are quarrelling over the devotion of one week to the commemoration of the state government’s third year in office.

The PDP said that such move given the current security challenges in the country is ill-timed and vexatious, but the state government argued the celebration is an eloquent testimony of the supremacy of democracy, which is the only weapon that “can get us out of these doldrums.”

Alternative chairman of the Democracy Day Committee, Dr Amuda Kannike, said: “As a state, we are not insensitive to the plight and situation of the nation.

“The options we have as a state is to be helpless in the situation that Nigeria as a nation has found itself. In the alternative, it is to say that we will mark the democracy day which is the last hope of the common man.

“There is nothing that can get us out of all these doldrums, sadistic events, deaths and loses but the supremacy of democracy.”

Kannike, who is the Commissioner for Works and Transport, added: “So, we feel that as a state it is still worthwhile to mark the democracy day that the hope for the common man in this country is not lost.”

“It is also to chronicle some of the achievements that this administration is committed to delivering the dividends of democracy to the people and to also showcase and commission projects.”

But the PDP, in a statement by its spokesperson, Chief Rex Olawoye, said: “We received the proposed celebration of the third year anniversary of Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed as the state governor with great shock, surprise, embarrassment and gross disappointment.

“Not only that the activities as planned are condemnable but it is also vexatious owning to the mourning circumstances the nation had found itself which has further attracted sympathy even from friends of the nation and the entire international community.

“This has in addition showed that Kwara APC is highly ignorant and insensitive to the yearning and plights of the people of the state and Nigerians at large for the release of over 200 school girls in Borno State, multiple bomb blast in Nyanyan, Abuja, Kano bomb attack and the most recent attack on a market in Jos, Plateau State as well as the daily kidnapping and maiming of innocent souls in the different parts of the country.