BREAKING: ‘Berlin Wall’ finally demolished in Kwara, as INEC declares APC’s Abdulrazaq Governor-elect
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the governorship seat in Kwara.
Its candidate Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq scored 331,546 to defeat his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Razak Atunwa who polled 114,754.
He was declared winner by the Resident Electoral Officer of Kwara State shortly after official election results collation in Ilorin, the state capital Sunday afternoon.
With Abdulrazaq’s victory, the APC has now consolidated the victory it secured at the 23 February 2019 presidential and national assembly elections in the state.
Also the Abdulrazaq’s victory at the Saturday 9 March 2019 governorship election shows that not Senate President Bukola Saraki is now a retired political influence in Kwara politics but also that the over 40 years old of Berlin Wall built by the Saraki dynasty between Kwara and development now finally demolished.
Recall the Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the launch of ‘O To Ge’ campaign against Saraki and his domineering politics in Kwara, had promised that demolish the Berlin Wall that for that long had separated the people of the state from seeing development like their peers in other parts of Nigeria.
The ‘Berlin Wall’ was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992.
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