A two-term governor of Kwara State, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has described the attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership in Abuja to impose candidates in the state's local government election as the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Speaking in an interview in Abuja, Senator Bukola  Saraki recalled that impunity manifested during the state's local government elections.

"We had started the process of election, we had conducted primaries and the national body of the PDP sent representatives to oversee the primaries.

"They also presided over the appeals of the aggrieved aspirants and we all agreed at the end of the day that the cleared candidates were those that emerged at the end at the day.

"But to our horror and shock, 24 hours before the election, a list emerged from the headquarters of the PDP and was sent to the State Independent Electoral Commission containing names of 16 Chairmanship candidate and 196 councilors.

"We asked ourselves where did this names emerged from? It means that they just sat down and wrote names...

The Senator asked, "we had taken decisions at the primaries and has chosen our candidates and the party in Abuja was doing something else, is this the party we should belong to?
He said at that stage, "there was nothing we could do. So, we are being driven by the choices of the people.

Answering a question on the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) crisis, Senator Saraki said the governors should be left alone to resolve their differences, regretting that some people believe that the forum is about politics and power thus the interference.

On the 2015 General election, he advised INEC to ensure transparent, free and fair elections, adding that the commission must leave up to the expectations of Nigerians and the international community.