The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Tuesday said the people of Kwara state will frustrate any attempt to hand over the state to Lagos and Abuja politicians in the forthcoming elections.
He added that the people of the state will resist plans by some desperate politicians and their local collaborators to annex the state to the South West using the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidates in the polls.
The Senate President spoke at Bode Saadu, headquarters of Moro local government area, in Kwara North during the official flag off of the campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Razak Atunwa, in the state.
He said Kwara belongs to Kwarans and all efforts by seasonal politicians to hand it over to their Lagos and Abuja paymasters shall be frustrated.
“This election is not about me or our governorship candidate, Razak Atunwa. It’s about this state, our tradition. Time will tell about whatever we do today.
“We go back to PDP because we need a government that will care for our people, gives jobs to our people. We should not vote a candidate whose DG said ‘he does not care, he does not know,’” Saraki said.
Also speaking, Kwara state governor, Abdufatah Ahmed said: “We’ve flagged off our campaign to usher in another PDP government.
“You can all see hunger, poverty in the last three years of APC government. We want to bring in PDP to change the narrative. We shall usher in PDP government in Nigeria and Kwara.
The state chairman of the PDP, Hon. Kola Shittu said only PDP government will be beneficial to the people of the state and Nigerians in general.
“PDP government will provide jobs for our youths. Many people have decamped to PDP because of our leaders’ sincerity and welfarism programmes,” he added
In his remarks, Atunwa promised to run a government of welfarism if elected as the state’s next governor.
He lamented that “the APC-led federal government denied Kwara youths job placements. Our government shall provide jobs for them. Women will be empowered.”
In his opening remarks, the Director General of PDP campaign council in the state, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman described APC as a deceitful party which does not meant well for the people of Kwara state.
He thanked Kwarans for their unwavering support for Saraki.
“Kwara election is between the real stakeholders and pretenders and those with territorial expansionist ambition. Kwara belongs to the north and we should not allow them to take the state to the south west.
“The APC has nothing to offer the state, they only have deception. We should vote for Atiku. Kwara should not vote for ‘ ghosts’ because” we don’t know those parading themselves as gubernatorial candidate now. They have never contributed anything to the development of the state,” he said.
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