The Gubernatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State, Alh. Shuaibu Abdullahi Yaman has said that the state cannot afford another four years of waste, profligacy and unskilled leadership whose only trademark is fanning the embers of discord and disunity within the state.
Addressing a cross-section of Kwarans on a solidarity visit to his Abuja residence on Sunday, Yaman said the current APC government in the state has not only accumulated an unprecedented debt profile without commensurate development but also remains the most lawless government the state has ever had.
According to the gubernatorial hopeful, rather than focusing on leaving enduring legacies as he rounds off his four years of ineffective leadership, he has again chosen the path of engaging in frivolous acts and political brigandage by raising unfounded, unsubstantiated and ridiculous allegations of a smear campaign.
Alh Yaman charged the state governor to tell Kwarans what he has done with the over N56b domestic debt accumulated in just three years. “The governor must explain to kwarans what he did with the unprecedented huge earnings from IGR and federal allocations in the face of prevalent infrastructure decay across the state.
“Why has he not conducted local government elections despite subsisting Supreme Court judgement if not executive rascality?”, Yaman asked.
“Trying to exonerate government from allegations made almost a year ago is not only an afterthought but fruitless as most kwarans know the truth”, Yaman said.
According to Yaman, kwarans are not oblivious of this government’s deceit when it pretends to set up a phantom probe panel to arrive at a predetermined outcome on issues of financial recklessness.
“Kwarans are still waiting for the outcome of the supposed investigation on how N450,000 barbwire money suddenly changed to N450,000,000”, Yanan said.
“Today, all the streets in Ilorin metropolis are in darkness because this government abandoned the Light-up Kwara project of the last administration mainly for political reasons, the same way it abandoned the asphalt plant”, Yaman alleged.
“This is one governor who not only treats civil servants with phenomenal disdain and contempt by contracting their basic duties and responsibilities to consultants but also violates basic tenets of good governance”, Yaman alleged.
According to Yaman, GAA simply lacks the intellectual competence and emotional intelligence to lead the state for another four years. “Another four years of this administration will be worst and may take Kwara ten years back”, he said.
Yaman promised to be a governor for all Kwarans, irrespective of their political alliances ” because the state belongs to all of us”, he promised.
