Kwara Doesn’t Deserve to be Governed by Someone With Secondary School Certificate’, -Akogun
As the preparations for the 2003 elections gather momentum, the people of Kwara state have been admonished to avoid the mistake of electing a mediocre that will enthrone the regime of failure and backwardness that are presently afflicting the state.
This was the submission of Comrade Abdulrasheed Akogun while speaking on “The way Forward” a programme of citizen’s enlightenment and political education monitored by our correspondent on Royal FM radio station in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Akogun, who is a Deputy Director in the Media and Communication Directorate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP explained that Kwara State which had been the intellectual power of the old Northern region has been unlucky to be governed presently by somebody with “questionable Secondary School Certificate” who has practically halted the development of the State.
He explained that voters in the State should be prepared to liberate themselves from the shackles of underdevelopment and bad governance by voting out the present government in the state, adding his party, the SDP remains the most credible alternative to put the State back on the road to progress.
He maintained that the SDP is ready for the challenges ahead going by the quality of its Campaign Council that was recently inaugurated, which consists of “round pegs in the round holes”.
According to him, the key areas and all the Directorates of the Campaign Council are manned by tested and experienced professionals who are passionate about the progress and development of the State. “From the DG, to the Media, to the Women and Youth department, etc, we have people who are up to the task to do the job, and this is a foretaste of how we are going to run the State with capable hands when we come to government”, he said.
He lamented the present situation in the state where the present administration has reduced governance to some sorts of comedy in the name of outrageous appointment of Special and Personal Assistants with little or no experience to bear of the governance. “It is sad and regrettable that after we struggle to say “O to ge” to the Saraki dynasty in 2019, we enthroned a mediocre and a misfit who knows next to nothing about democracy and governance. That is why the people must look in the direction of the SDP as the credible alternate and a way out of the present mess,” he said.
Akogun averred that Alhaji Hakeem Oladimeji Lawal, the candidate of the SDP is young, vibrant, and intellectually sound to pilot the affairs of the State to face the challenges of modern development.
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