The Special Adviser on Political Communication to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara state, Alh Bashir Adigun has said that the gang-up of the opposition members under the aegis of Kwara Redemption Movement(KRM) is among others based on members’ inability to pocket the governor and prevent him from delivering dividends of democracy to residents of the state.
Recall that recently, the coordinator of the opposition group Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo addressed a press conference in Ilorin where he said members drawn from various political parties, and different individuals have formed a political alliance against the interest of the current administration ahead of 2027.
Adigun who said this in a statement titled, “Akogun KRM: Failed politicians in Pull Him Down Syndrome.” made available to journalists in Ilorin on Saturday, queried,”How credible and trustworthy are Akogun and his cohorts lost in their ungodly desperation to return Kwara to the discredited, disclaimed and condemned era of looting commonwealth of the people for the personal aggrandizement of a handful of villains and detriment of the majority?
He noted in the statement that, “many Kwarans may not be aware of the grouse of Akogun and his fellow travellers. They are certainly annoyed because of the Governor’s unbending principle against using the people’s wealth for personal aggrandizement as practised by the displaced dynasty .”
He also that,’”the people of Kwara should be aware that the gang up is driven by their failure and frustration not to have pocketed Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and prevent him from focusing on providing dividends of Democracy and positive impact on the people of Kwara State.”
Adigun recalled that,”the same group misled some of its members to join the Social Democratic Party SDP ahead of the 2023 General Elections with incalculable negative consequences to those members.
“Akogun, their leader abandoned them in the SDP to reaffirm his membership of the All-Progressive Congress and pledged his loyalty to Governor AbdulRazaq.
“How many times must Akogun deceive the gullible in the public space, claiming to have parted ways with the Governor only to find him singing praises of the same Governor as attested to by circulating video clips in the public space ?” he queried again.
The contradictions of the group, according to the statement,” stemmed from its claim to be non-partisan and at the same time claiming that its members are drawn from different political parties; taking sole ownership of the 2019 Peoples Revolution known as O to Ge which swept away the failed Saraki Political Dynasty, replaced by the current Republican Kwara political space under the inspiring leadership of Governor AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq .”
It added that “O to Ge is a revolution by the people of Kwara and not by any individual or group of people.
“The people showed their love, support and endorsement for Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq through the 2019, and 2023 General elections and the just concluded Local Government Elections in all of which they overwhelmingly voted for the administration in 2019, 2023 General elections and recently the 2024 Local Government election,”Adigun added in the statement.
He also said that “they are dissatisfied with Kwara Social Investment Programme empowering the poor and the vulnerable in the State instead of them cornering the people ‘s wealth to themselves.”
The so-called movement,he added,’ is frustrated because Governor AbdulRazaq has excelled beyond reasonable doubt in all sectors; education, health , poverty alleviation , infrastructural renewal , Security , food production, prompt payment of salaries, pension and gratuity for workers at both State and LG levels and the pensioners unlike the dehumanizing experience of the PDP era.
“The Governor has continued to win landslide by the overwhelming votes of the people of the State against their own conspiracy with their disgraceful paid Master.”Adigun said.
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