Inauguration Of Projects In Imo Has Revealed Abdulrasaq’s Failure As Kwara Governor–Former Senator Rafiu Ibrahim
Kwara South PDP senate candidate, former senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim, has accused the governor of Kwara state, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq of watching without a clue while his fellow first term governors were having projects completed by their respective administrations inaugurated in their states.
In a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by his Campaign Office on Friday, Ibrahim, who represented Kwara South in the 8th Senate , noted that he made the comments sequel to the projects inauguration ceremony held in Imo state on Tuesday.
While submitting that the Imo state governor, former senator Hope Uzodinma had assumed office five months after Governor Abdulrazaq took office, Rafiu added that after almost 40 months in office, the Kwara State Government under Abdulrasaq’s leadership has not completed any project while he has made streets of major cities in the state to somewhat become permanently dirty .
He added that dilapidated school buildings that were only covered in new paints, crudely mended roads that have failed and the collapse of social services had also left many Kwarans unhappy about the level of service delivery by an elected government.
‘Sen. Hope Uzodinma, who was my colleague in the 8th Senate, became Governor seven months after Mr. Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq took office and he has serious security challenges in his state.
Yet, he has on two different occasions invited President Mohammadu Buhari to Imo State to inaugurate projects. Not only that, many first term governors, who were sworn in at the same time with the Kwara state Governor like Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State have also had completed projects inaugurated.
The failure of Governor Abdulrazaq to complete a project that will be ready for inauguration was a product of many factors. First, he has no idea or plan on how to develop the state and run a successful government. Second, he has not made himself accessible to quality advice and initiatives having appointed incompetent aides. Third, he has no good intentions toward the people and the state. Fourth, he and the other people in his government have been mismanaging, misapplying, and misappropriating the huge funds coming into the state since June 2019.
The amount of money that has come from federal allocations, internally generated revenue, counterpart funds from intervention agencies, and aids from development partners have been unprecedented. Still, the government has raised the debt profile of the state to the highest level, yet no feasible project.
In the same vein, we cannot see any development policy or programme aimed at bringing dividends of democracy to the people or alleviating poverty among our people. Youth unemployment remains as high as ever. The government has refused to embark on wealth creation or empowerment initiatives. All the contracts are given to non-Kwarans who do not make the benefits reflect on the state.
We call on the people to quickly give it a thought. The present government in Kwara State has reduced government to tokenism and they believe painting buildings, patching roads, distributing money, and peddling falsehood will be enough to win them re-election.
Our people have seen the difference between what obtains now and what it was before . They will surely reject the APC and all its candidates in the upcoming general election. Abdulrahman has no clue about how to administer a state or run a development-oriented government’ he submitted-Team@orientactualmags.com
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