2019: Kwara politics takes a new direction, says APC

The All Progressives Congress has said that Kwara politics has
taken a new direction through the people’s votes as witnessed in
the November 17 House of Representatives’ bye-election in the
state.

Malam Lanre Onilu, the APC National Publicity Secretary, said
this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

The statement was in reaction to the decision by the Senate to
investigate the circumstances that led to the loss of the Peoples
Democratic Party in the election.

“While the APC condemns this curious Senate investigation of the
bye-election which took place in the home state of the Senate
President, Dr Bukola Saraki,

“We also find it curious that other bye-elections conducted in
Katsina and Bauchi States have not received similar attention from
the Senate.

“It is clear that the sweet victory by the APC House of
Representatives’ candidate, Alhaji Raheem Olawuyi-Ajuloopin, in the
bye-election has hit the overrated federal lawmakers from Kwara
State badly,“ Onilu said.

He added that the PDP was not pretending to have learnt any
lessons from its past anti-democratic practices.

“The usurpers occupying the Senate leadership seat have no
altruistic intentions other than to manipulate state institutions
to pursue a personal interest and massage battered ego.”

The APC spokesman wondered when it had become the responsibility
of the legislative arm of government to constitute itself into an
election tribunal.

He added that the Senate should understand that, like the rest
of the country, the people of Kwara had seen enough of impunity and
misrule represented by the self-serving leaders of the PDP.

He stressed that turning the Senate into an electoral tribunal
only showed Nigerians that the PDP had not changed from its odious
practice of compromising the system to promote illusionary
ambitions.

Onilu, however, advised the leaders of PDP in Kwara and
elsewhere in the country to get used to losing elections.

He added that the Nigerian electorate had tasted the benefits of
good governance in the last three and half years of President
Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government and would not go back to the
PDP’s 16 years of waste and misrule.

“Elections have been won and lost. A new and progressive Kwara
State beckons, through their votes, the Kwara electorate have
spoken clearly on the new political direction in the state.

“Kwara State has suffered enough of the selfish machinations of
a self-appointed leader.

”The will and wishes of the good people of the state must
prevail now, in the 2019 elections and beyond, Only said.

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