Dele Moses, Ilorin
Members of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara state on Thursday held two parallel stakeholders meeting.
One of the meetings had the governor in attendance and was to appreciate the performance of the governor in the last two years.
The meeting which was held at the State Banquet Hall opposite Government House in Ilorin was attended by some of the chieftains of the party, including Abdullahi Samari who was there as the chairman of the party caretaker committee.
The other meeting was held at an open field at the Basin area of Ilorin and also had some chieftains of the party on attendance with Bashir Bolarinwa who also laid claim to being the chairman of the party’s caretaker committee.
The party stakeholders at the Baquent Hall meeting praised the performance of the governor in the last two years as some of the were canvassing for a second term of office for him.
Many of those who spoke hailed the governor’s performances in infrastructural development and welfarism programmes.
Those who spoke included the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Engineer Yakubu Danladi-Salihu, the Head of Service, Mrs. Susan Oluwole, representatives of people living with disabilities (PWLD), Bashiru Yusuf, the victims of #EndSARS protest, and Iyaloja of Ipata market, Balikis AbdulRasheed among others.
Two commissioners and a Permanent Secretary; Femi White (Water Resources), Rotimi Iliasu (Works) and Dr. Abubakar Ayinla (Health) also rolled out the achievements of the Abdulrazaq’s administration at the event.
The Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Danladi-Salihu said: ” We, at the Kwara State House of Assembly are satisfied that Governor Abdulrazaq has done wonderfully well in the last two years. Whoever is saying no to Governor Abdulrazaq is saying no to the progress and development of the state. What the governor needs is our prayers. He has changed the narrative of Kwara politics and governance. This administration is for all Kwarans. We are solidly behind the governor.
“We are satisfied with the governor’s social investment schemes which have taken some Kwarans out of poverty, infrastructure projects scattered around the three senatorial districts and regular payment of workers salaries and retirees pensions.
Bashiru Yusuf of the PLWD said that, “The governor is taking good care of those of us living with disabilities as he has provided job opportunities for some of us”.
The governor, while speaking at the occasion, said his administration has turned the state around from its ‘sorry’ past in the last two years through prudent management of resources.
Abdulrazaq who castigated the past administrations for the backwardness of the state said:” We have our records. At the right time we shall expose them. They were getting the same money that we are getting, but they squandered everything. We shall continue to do the right thing for our people”, he said.
At the other meeting at the Basin area, the party chieftains and supporters who were in attendance faulted the recently concluded membership registration/revalidation exercise in the state saying it was not in line with the party’s guideline
Bolarinwa, said that he remained the legally and authentic chairman of the party in the state and asked that that party members allegedly shut out of the registration/revalidation exercise should be duly registered and revalidated.
He also asked that the registration/revalidation of those members be done before the commencement of various congresses of the party, saying that the party congresses at all levels should be conducted in a transparent manner.
Bolarinwa described party members in his group as committed and loyal APC members, stating “we all remain resolute, strong and steadfast in moving our party APC forward”.
