By Dare Akogun
The Kwara South Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC in last week election Senator Suleiman Makanjuola Ajadi has announced that he will be working with other progressives in the state to re-elect Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrahman for a second term in office.
In a statement on Tuesday, the senator who is a former ally of the governor until he lost his quest to become the flag of the APC to contest the Kwara South Senatorial Seat also said he and his team has decided to return to the APC as he is not given to politics of zero sum and perpetual bitterness.
According to the statement “My supporters and i have put the National Election behind us.We cannot be accused of not exercising our democratic rights.
“I am hereby directing my supporters to work conscientiously for the re-election of Governor Abdulrazaq who, in all fairness and in the estimation of the overwhelming majority of our people, has done his best within the circumstances of our state to rebuild Kwara State to an enviable height.
“He is therefore the best man on the ballot for the office of Governor, and i am directing my supporters and the people of our state to support him,”the statement stated.
Senator Ajadi also revealed that he has the mandate of the candidates of the ADC to return the collapse its structure into the APC.
“I also have the mandate of majority of our candidates, especially those from Kwara South, to announce our return and collapse of our structures into the APC.
“Whatever the misgivings anyone may have, i have come to the conclusion that any vote against the Governor at this time would amount to setting our state back several decades.
I do not want to be on the wrong side of history, hence my decision to make this public declaration of support for the re-election of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq,” he said.
