The Kwara State Government has criticized former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, for his comments on the recent local government election.
Recall that the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission, KWASIEC, had declared all Chairmanship and Councillorship candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as winners.
In response to Saraki’s criticism, made through his media aide, the state government, through a statement by the Commissioner for Communications, Bola Olukoju, stated that Saraki lacks the moral authority to comment on the election.
Olukoju asserted that the people of Kwara have rejected Saraki’s leadership, stating that “when it comes to the welfare of the people, Saraki has no moral standing to speak.”
”He is a bald hairdresser recommending his unfailing hair restorer. He is a snail claiming a championship in a community of horned animals. The world is facing serious economic challenges. Nigerians have not been immune to the same.”
Saraki’s PDP not only fruitlessly tried to frustrate the conduct of the election through the court, but it mobilised urchins and its local collaborators to disrupt the balloting with their shenanigans and hooliganism after seeing that they lacked the credibility or a record of convincing people to vote for them.”
“It took the popular will of the people to cast their ballot. The government has done well enough to win the trust of the people, and that was what played out, regardless of the noise from Saraki’s men.
“It is bewildering that Saraki’s party is confused between floating the narrative that no election took place and claiming a victory from an election it said was never held. That is the lot of confused, desperate people that Senator Saraki leads,”
“We also find it incredible that Senator Bukola Saraki was talking about people’s welfare. The record of his iron-fist imperialism, which featured non-payment of salary, use of thugs to intimidate people, and high rate of suicides and destitution and other menaces faced by workers is still fresh”
(Vanguard)
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