The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to face governance, adding that his claim that the Peoples Democratic Party would reclaim Kwara State was not realistic.
Jonathan had on Tuesday while granting audience to a delegation of Kwara State chapter of the PDP in Abuja, said all the mandates of the party allegedly stolen in the state by virtue of recent defection by the state governor and others would be returned to the PDP. The Presidency had made similar comment in the past.
But the Interim Publicity Secretary, APC, Kwara State, Alhaji Sulyman Buhari, stated that there was no stolen mandate in the state. He said Jonathan’s comment was suspect and wondered whether Jonathan would adopt unorthodox and unconstitutional means to upstage the political leadership in the state.
It remains a mirage how a party without leadership and structure, with no councillor in any of the 193 wards; a party with no chairman in any of the 16 local governments councils of the state and with just two members out of 24 members in the House of Assembly, will win any election in Kwara State.
“Or is Mr. President thinking of announcing election results from Abuja? This will certainly attract uprising from Kwarans and it should best remain in his imagination,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Kwara South Senatorial District has said that it is not opposed to the nomination of a former Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, Gbemi Saraki, as a minister by President Jonathan.
In a statement signed by the representatives of the three blocks of the district, the party said the appointment of Saraki as a minister had never been an issue of concern.
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