Elections: Only criminals need worry in Kwara - Lai Mohammed

Date: 2019-02-06

The information minister, Lai Mohammed, has said only criminals and political thugs need to be worried in Kwara State.

He said this is because they (miscreants) will not be allowed to cause violence or disrupt the forthcoming elections.

In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, the minister said the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), Kwara State Chapter, had alleged that the federal government was planning to clamp down on opposition parties.

He said the allegation by the "shadowy" CNPP is a panic reaction to his consistent call on the security agencies to rid the nation of all known thugs in Kwara State, "to provide a level playing field for all the parties".

"A similar action by the security agencies went a long way in ensuring the success of the 17 Nov. 2018 by-election in the Irepodun/Ekiti/Oke-Ero/Isin Federal Constituency in Kwara, which was won by our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and which was widely adjudged to be free, fair and peaceful," he said.

He said thugs and other criminals in the state need to be worried as "they won't get the chance to disrupt the conduct of the forthcoming elections".

He said the move had made those "whose modus operandi is to use thugs and hooligans to snatch ballot papers, disenfranchise voters and generally terrorise the citizenry during elections restless and uneasy".

"We have no apologies for ridding the state of these delinquents," he said

However, he said all law-abiding residents of the state have nothing to fear.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kola Shittu     Tunde Akanbi     Sam Onile     Ayekale     Adebara     Omu-aran     Atiku Abubakar     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Inside Kwara     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Abdulraheem Olesin     3MTT     Arik     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Dasuki Belgore     Esuwoye     Barakat Community Secondary School     Young Progressives Party     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Lola Ashiru     Tsado Manman     National Information Technology Development Agency     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Adamu Atta     Offa Poly     Share-Tsaragi     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Lukman Adeloyin     Oloriegbe     Monthly Sanitation     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Bello John Olanrewaju     Stephen Fasakin     Aremu Odolaye     Sobi Hill     Saad Belgore     Muslim Cementary     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Olabode George Towoju     Erubu     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Tayo Alao     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Jide Oyinloye     Elerinjare     Abegunde Goke     Aminat Ahmed     Kwara NIPR     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Dunmade     Albert Ogunsola     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Ijagbo Health Centre     Aro Yahaya     Quareeb Islamic Association     Maigidasanma     Yusuf Arowosaye     Zaratu Umar     Musa Abdullahi     Samuel Adaramola     Kunbi Titiloye     Garba Ado Sanni     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Bilikisu Gambari     Village Alive Development Association     Okin Group     Jimoh Bashir     Taofik Abdulkareem     Undergraduate Bursary     Danhawa     Madawaki Of Ilorin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Barakat Community Secondary School     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Mike Omotosho     Erubu     Aliyu Muhammed     Haleeman Salman     CELF     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Ibrahim Abikan     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Ridwan Agboola     Gobir Organization Foundation     Laboratory-to-Product     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Agboola Abdulraheem     Isiaka Alikinla     Bayo Lawal     NSCIA     Alabe     Sodiya     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Apaola     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     School Of Nursing     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Oba Abdulrahim     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Earlyon Technologies     Niyi Osundare     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Kwara State Fire Service     Kabir Shagaya     Zainab Abass     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Sam Okaula     Ilota     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Zara Umar     Saheed Popoola     Kwara South     KWASSIP     Kwara University Of Education     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Shettima     Owo Arugbo     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Iyiola Oyedepo     Simeon Sayomi     Babaloja-General     Suleman Abubakar     Wole Oke     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Chief Imam Of Offa     Ajayi Okasanmi     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Pategi     Tafida Of Kaiama     Imam Gambari     Lithium     Sambo Murtala     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Amos Justus Sayo     Sunday Popo-Ola     Kwara Hotel     Grillo     Aliyu Sabi     Nigerian Medical Association     Ilorin Curfew     Hajj     Twitter     Femi Ogunsola     Laolu Saraki