I am Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the Gubernatorial candidate of APC Kwara
State and, Insha Allah, the next Governor. I must say yesterday's
incident was the fourth attempt to attack me. The first one was while we
were campaigning for the House of Representative by-elections.
The
second was on December 25th, during the IEDPU Day. The third was last
Thursday and the fourth, yesterday. During the IEDPU Day, we walked away
calmly and urged our supporters not to retaliate. We didn't do
anything; we didn't respond to their attack. Last Thursday, the same
incidence happened and we urged our supporters not to retaliate. And
yesterday, yesterday's incident was very bad and I hope it doesn’t
repeat itself again.
We are restraining ourselves because we
don't want to make things go bad, to turn awry. This is our Town; we
won't destroy it. We know they are not from here; they don't care
whatever happens. That's why their policy is to destroy. If we go back
to when they wanted to take power from Muhammed Lawal, it was through
violence. Some of you that know me know that I contested under CPC, it
was not known for violence, we did not attack anybody, we don't go about
with thugs. We lose election, we go back home and we come back again.
That's the way it is, it's not by force. You can't impose your will on
the people. But what we have here now is people clutching to straws, a
drowning man strikes the way he wants to. They are drowning, they are on
their way out and they have no answer to what is going on.
Illorin
has changed. Kwara has changed. People are decamping daily, there was a
major decamping in Kaiama yesterday. Before that, it was Oyun. Before
that, it was Ekiti. So people are coming into our party everyday. In
trying to stem that, the only answer they have is violence, violence,
violence but we'll not go toe-to-toe with them in violence. We'll keep
reporting them to the law enforcement authorities. The police are doing
very well, they are doing a good job, we want them to do more, and they
have to be balanced in what they do.
In terms of what the PDP
people are doing, I think they should put an end to it. They've singled
me out and other APC candidates out for attack.
We know that they
can't achieve what they want to achieve. They can't! We urge them to be
peaceful, campaign like we are campaigning. You can see that they’re
not campaigning. They have a gubernatorial candidate that is not
campaigning, but a senatorial candidate that is campaigning like a
governor. He keeps going from Kwara South to Kwara North, is he
contesting for his 5th term? We really don’t know who is campaigning for
what. They have proxies campaigning. The last time he brought
Abdulfatah Ahmed as governor. We all know that Abdulfatah is not the
executive Governor of Kwara, somebody who couldn’t tar a single road in
Ifelodun Local government. Why do you expect the one they are bringing
now to do any better?
There’s a lot of work to be done in Kwara
State. They asked them about minimum wage. They said that they will pay
and that they will even pay more. These are people that have not paid
salary in 6 months, 1 year. And mind you, people have not noticed that
last year’s budget was N190 billion, this year’s budget is N150 billion.
If you can’t pay salary with N190 billion, how can you can you pay on
N150 billion?
They’re a bunch of jokers, they are not ready to
govern. They are only here to steal our money, so we have to vote them
out. O to ge!
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