By Dare Akogun
The Press Officer (Local Matters) to the immediate past Senate President Abdulganiyu Abdulqadir, has chided the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State for adopting a negative campaign strategy in the state.
Abdulqadir in a statement made available to newsmen today in Ilorin said instead of the APC to tell the people what the state government has done to make their life better in the last 45 months, they have repeatedly focused on attacking the records of the preceding administration.
Abdulqadir while commenting on a statement signed by Tajudeen Aro Folami, the publicity Secretary of the APC who was reacting to the interview granted to Sobi FM by Dr. Saraki, Abdulqadir noted that as typical of APC leaders, the spokesman avoided reeling out the achievements of the present administration in the last 45 months that it has been in office.
According to him “He could not even mention specific projects, programmes, and policies which the administration has initiated to make Kwara State greater than they met it.
“While he sought to demonize the Saraki administration, he could not avoid the temptation of claiming that they are building on the same past administration’s achievements. How do you build on what you claim does not exist?
“On one hand, he mentioned KWASU, an institution which all responsible Kwarans are proud of, and the construction of Ilesha Baruba -Gwanara Road which the Saraki administration initiated as two of the projects they are improving on. On another, he said the Saraki government did nothing,” he queried.
The statement said the current APC government in the state is peopled by those who have no idea of what they wanted to do in government and also failed to attract the best hands from the state scattered across the world to help them.
“They are confused they just run the government on impulse. That is why they can be constructing a flyover with manual labourers and half-baked professionals and this is after competent and certified professionals have distanced themselves from the government and its haphazard measures,” he said.
Abdulqadir said APC and its administration in Kwara State should know that the people are wiser and have seen through the lies that propelled the administration into power in 2019.
“They want to know why other administrations inaugurated in 2019 like that of Abdulrazaq have been commissioning projects and initiating beneficial policies and programmes in their respective states and nothing like that is happening in Kwara State,” Abdulqadir stated.
