Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara State has described the rapprochement between the Sarakis and the family of the late former governor Mohammed Lawal as political prostitution. 

It said: "The so-called reconciliation is an act of political prostitution and desperation on the part of the PDP/Sarakis whose agenda remains to exploit the people of the state."

Early in the week, the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Bukola Saraki, described the late Lawal, who was his predecessor, as a hero. 

He spoke when the representatives of Idiape community, where Lawal hailed from, visited him in Ilorin.

Irreconcilable differences had pitched the Sarakis against the Idiape people.

They were on a visit to Senator Saraki, the lawmaker representing Kwara Central Senatorial District. They requested for the immortalisation of their late kinsman.

About two weeks ago, the Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed-led administration named the Ilorin Golf Club after the late governor who ruled between 1999 and 2003.  

In a statement, the ACN chairman, Kayode Olawepo, said: "Being a man of history, if Lawal were to be alive today, it is clear he would still be in the trenches, fighting the injustice and economic sabotage being perpetrated against the people of Kwara. 

"We know that genuine leaders, sons and daughters of Idiape and indeed Kwarans would honour Lawal and others who died fighting these oppressions certainly not by any fake reconciliation with their oppressors."