By Busari Kabirat
The former Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has been slammed by the Kwara State Government, noting that he is not in the right position to condemn the state’s recently concluded Local Government elections.
This was made known in a statement by Bola Olukoju, who is the State Commissioner for Communications as the former Senate President condemned the outcome of the LG polls because most of the chairmanship and councilorship was won by mostly APC candidates in the state.
Kwara State Government, reacting in a statement said, as far as people’s welfare was concerned, Saraki lacked the moral standing to talk. Noting that Saraki’s PDP was not only fruitlessly but still tried to disrupt the conduct of the election through the court and still mobilised rascals and other local collaborators to disrupt polling process immediately he realized that his party records are not credible.
Statement reads, it took the popular will of the people to cast their ballot, stressing that 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.
“We are bewildered 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.”
