Kwara people ready to oust Saraki in 2019 elections - Lai Mohammed

Date: 2018-08-10

Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed, yesterday, said the people of Kwara State had resolved to wrestle political powers from the hands of Dr Bukola Saraki and his loyalists in 2019 general elections.

He noted that Kwarans were now more united to rescue the state from what he described as grinding poverty and miss-governance in the state.

Alhaji Mohammed, who spoke in Ilorin, at a political summit, also declared that he would not be contesting for any elective post in the forthcoming 2019 general elections.

According to him, "From my consultations with key stakeholders so far, I can say, categorically, that Kwarans have all resolved to take their destiny into their own hands and take back what rightly belongs to them. This is unprecedented in the history of our state, and we must not waste this opportunity.

I can tell you that if we all remain united, we can't and we won't lose the looming battle for the survival of our dear state.

All that is required is for us all to subordinate our individual ambitions to the collective efforts, work to wrest our state from the hegemony of one man and his cohorts.

" On my own part, I can say here, without mincing words, that I won't be running for any office during the forthcoming elections.

For me, it is not about any clamour for office. It is about working with all like minds for the greater benefit of our people. Make no mistake about it, the battle ahead will be tough.

"No one with power will ever give it up easily. But the power of the people supersedes all powers.

That is why I am delighted, and indeed encouraged, that the good people of our state, whether from the North, South or Central, are all united in their singular determination to rescue their state from the grinding poverty; monumental miss-governance and the general state of funk that has enveloped it. The fight back has already begun, in the form of blackmail and fake news."

Continuing, he said ,"The resources of Kwara will be used for the development of the state and its people. Never again will our people be turned to panhandlers; never again will our people be made to eat crumbs from the master's table.

"What an auspicious time for all of us! Never before had we have a great opportunity like we have now to take our state back from the rapacious few, who have held the state by the jugular and prevented it from meeting the hopes and aspirations of its people. "They say I do not like Ilorin people. But what they do not know is that no amount of cheap blackmail will deter us. The people of Ilorin should know who their friends are. I do not hate the good people of Ilorin. "Perhaps many of you have forgotten that in 2011, I supported, on my platform, an indigene of Ilorin to run for the governorship of this state. Even when my kinsmen were not happy with my decision, I was undeterred."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Joseph Offorjama     Yakub Lai Gobir     Ibrahim Labaika     Students Union Government     EFCC     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Isiaka Oniwa     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Moshood Mustapha     Sardauna     Abikan     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Abubakar Abdulraheem     CLAY POT     Taofeek Ibraheem     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Ifelodun     Amos Bajeh     Suleiman Abubakar     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Saka Balikis Kehinde     IHS     Ibrahim Oniye     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Kola Olota     Abubakar Ndakene     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Sola Saraki University     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     African Democratic Congress     Ajayi Okasanmi     Omoniyi Ayinla     Mutawali     Ndakene     Jare Olatundun     Bola Tinubu     Sun Qing Rong     Dorcas Afeniforo     Okasanmi Ajayi     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Gbenga Awoyale     Bluenile Associates     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     FERMA     KSIRS     Roseline Oni Aremu     Jide Oyinloye     MalHub     Kwara 2015     Halimah Perogi     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Alagbado     Isa Aremu     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Kolawole Bashirat     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Babata     Mohammed Abduraheem     Ayo Salami     Joseph Daudu     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Danhawa     Abiodun Oyedepo     Lanre Issa Onilu     Elesie Of Esie     Pacify Labs     Balogin Alanamu     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Oluwole Dupe     RTEAN     Ilota    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Overland     Balogun-Ojomu     Shehu Jimoh     Paul Odama     Isin     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Arandun     Okin Biscuit     Olatunji Ayeni     Raheem Adaramaja     Saliu Mustapha     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Muritala Olarewaju     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Wasiu Onidugbe     Omotoso     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Ayo Salami     Kwara Volleyball Association     Bilikis Oladimeji     John Kehinde Salako     FOMWAN     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Kwara State Sports Commission     Amos Bajeh     Kayode Yusuf     Ajase-Ipo     Odo-Owa     Oko     Emir Of Ilorin     SSA Youth     Oja-Oba     Lai Gobir     Kazeem Gbolagade     Akorede     2017 Budget     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Raji AbdulRasaq     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     EndSARS     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Olatunde Michaels     Oyin-Zubair     Umar Danladi Shero     Owode Market     Read With Me     Muhammadu Gobir     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Ahmad Belgore     Tafida Of Kaiama     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Pategi     Quranic Recitation Competition     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Jalala     Kola Ologbondiyan     Sidikat Alaya     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Okanlawon Taiwo     Share/Tsaragi     Sayomi     Kayode Ibrahim     Chief Of Staff     Charles Ibitoye     Shoprite     IYA YUSUF     Issa Oloruntogun     Segun Ogunsola     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Ilorin     Alfa Modibbo Belgore