2019: We’ll resist attempt to annex Kwara to South West ― Saraki

SENATE President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said that people of Kwara State will resist plans by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidates in the coming general elections to annex the state to South West.

Speaking at the flag off of Peoples Democratic Party PDP campaign at Bode Saadu in Moro local government area of the state on Tuesday, the Senate President said that Kwara state 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 culture and 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,” he said.

Also speaking, Governor Abdufatah Ahmed said that the last three years of the APC had witnessed hunger.

“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 state,” he said.

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The state chairman of the PDP, Hon Kola Shittu, said that only PDP government would 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 welfare programmes,” he added

In his remarks, Atunwa promised to run a government of welfare 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 mean 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 paradigms themselves as the gubernatorial candidate now. They have never contributed anything to the development of the state,” he said.