Minister to Kwarans: It’s time to vote out the rapacious government in Kwara
The Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the time has come to
retire the political oligarchs who have appropriated Kwara State and its
resources to themselves to the detriment of the people.
The Minister made the remarks while addressing the mammoth crowd that attended
the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally in Ilorin, Kwara State
on Monday.
“It is time to retire those who have held Kwara State down and made our people
and our state very poor. They have been deceiving the people. They have been
blaming the federal government for their failure.
”When they can’t pay workers salary, they blame the Federal Government. When they
can’t provide infrastructure, they blame the Federal Government. They forgot to
tell the people that Mr. President has graciously approved bailouts and Paris
Club Refund for states, including Kwara. Ask them, where is the money? What did
they do with
it?” he said.
Alhaji Mohammed warned that voting the present crop of leaders in Kwara State
into power again is like giving them another licence to embark of a looting
spree, and urged the people to be wary of their Greek gift under the guise of
offsetting workers’ salaries
“With elections approaching, their leader, I said their leader, NOT the state
government, suddenly brought out 2.5 billion Naira from his kitty to pay
workers. Where do individuals pay state workers? Where did the money come from?
It is your money that they have been keeping. They have brought out some of it
because they are desperate,” he said.
The Minister said the Buhari Administration has executed various infrastructural
and social development projects in Kwara, listing them as including the
rehabilitation of Ohan and Moro Bridges on Ilorin-Igbeti road; Construction of
Patigi-Kpada road and the rehabilitation of Ilorin-Jebba-Mokwa road, which used
to be a nightmare for motorists.
He also listed the roads being rehabilitated or constructed to include the
Ilorin-Kabba-Obajana road; the Ajase-Ipo-Offa-Erin Ile-Osun state boundary;
Kaiama-KIshi Road; Offa Bypass in Offa as well as the dualization of Michael
Imoudu Ganmo/Afon junction road Ilorin
In addition, Alhaji Mohammed said about 50,000 Kwarans are benefitting from
Tradermoni and Marketmoni, 9,886 homes in Kwara State are benefitting from the
Conditional Cash Transfer that gives 5,000 Naira monthly to the most vulnerable
while the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme has seen the number of rice farmers in
Kwara grow from 5,000 to 30,000.
He therefore urged the people of the state to vote for President Buhari, APC governorship
candidate Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and all other APC candidates in the
forthcoming elections.
The mega rally was attended by President Buhari, National Chairman of the APC
Adams Oshiomhole, National Leader of the APC Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Osun
State Governors Bisi Akande and Rauf Aregbesola, Ministers of Transportation as
well as Interior, Rotimi Amaechi and Abdulrahman Dambazau respectively, and the
APC governorship candidate in Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman, among
others.
