Kwara State Government has said that former Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki lacked moral standing to condemn last weekend’s Local Government elections in the state.…..For More READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶...CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING.>>
This is contained in a statement by the State Commissioner for Communications, Bola Olukoju.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission, KWASIEC, had declared all the Chairmanship and Councillorship candidates of the ruling APC as winners of the election.
The former President of the Senate had also condemned the outcome of the polls.
Reacting, the State Government in the statement said that as far as people’s welfare was concerned, Saraki lacked the moral standing to talk.
It also alleged that Saraki’s PDP not only fruitlessly tried to frustrate the conduct of the election through the court, but it also 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.
According to the statement, 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,” the statement added.…..For More READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
