Kwara state PDP Unified Campaign Council on Friday accused the current administration in the state headed by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of planning to make President Muhammadu Buhari preside over the inauguration ceremony of what the party called ‘rush projects’ warning that dangers lie ahead of Kwarans if the president gives the governor the push.
Presiding over the press conference held in Ilorin, which was attended by journalists including Team@orientactualmags.com, Chairman of the State Campaign Council, Hon Ahmad Ali, a one-time Speaker of the state House of Assembly, alleged that a meeting was convened by Governor Abdulrazaq and his inner circle of advisers where a decision was taken ‘to deceitfully get President Buhari to inaugurate uncompleted projects during his visit to Ilorin on the 17th of January, 2023 for the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential campaign rally, thereby making him a party to their shameless grand conspiracy’.
It will be recalled that the Local Organizing Committee in a statement issued by Governor Abdulrazaq’s Special Adviser on Strategy, Alhaji Saadu Salahu on Thursday had disclosed that APC bigwigs led by President Muhammadu Buhari, will on Tuesday January 17, 2023, hit campaign trail in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, to campaign for all the candidates of the ruling party.
Ali , who was joined by some PDP bigwigs in the state including former Reps Amuda Kannike, Hon Tunde Ajeigbe, Hon Tunji Morounfoye , Hon Saka Babatunde, Hon Anu Ibiwoye and Mr. Abdul Isa Adangba added that while other governors had made the President inaugurate completed, standard, and befitting projects which had been undertaken for the benefit of the people, the Abdulrazaq administration was rather allegedly planning to inaugurate rush projects.
‘However, in Kwara State much has been said about the overwhelming failure of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and his inability to inaugurate any landmark project since taking office almost 44 months ago. To save himself the embarrassment of having his failures becoming a topic of national discourse when the President visits and finds no noteworthy project to inaugurate,
In other words, Governor Abdulrahman is fishing for projects to present to President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate. He is on a voyage of discovery on how to save his image before President Buhari .who is well- known to have no regard for the Governor, because he has had heard the stories of his misrule and his fixation on ego-tripping, score-settling, and making family rivalry an art.
According to the information gathered from inside sources, some of the following uncompleted projects were itemized to be inaugurated or visited by the President for ‘Inspection’. (a) Yebumot Hotel road: This project was awarded to cover Yebumot to Ipata-Oloje road but the project is nowhere near completion to date. The plot is to get President Buhari to inaugurate a less than 40 percent section of the road which was rushed to finish, hence passing it off as a completed project.
(b)Tailors Shop aka ‘Garment Factory’. While the Federal Government is encouraging states to establish cargo terminals to stimulate the export of goods thereby boosting our foreign exchange earnings, the Kwara State governor converted our completed cargo terminal established by previous administrations to a tailoring shop while fraudulently tagging it as a ‘Garment Factory’ so any innocent- minded person would be misled to think it is a garment production factory.
This is nothing but a large tailoring shop, located on the premises of an airport. This thoughtless action is not considerate of the fact that untrained workers would have access to restricted and dangerous areas within the Ilorin international airport.
Also on the purported list of project sites to be visited by the President are;
Innovation Hub, ICT Centre, and International Conference Center: This is another category of badly planned, white elephant, an elitist project whose location was not properly thought out’ he said.
While alleging that the projects in question ‘are nothing but conduit pipes that are meant to illegally siphon off money without any meaningful impact on Kwarans’, Kwara state PDP Campaign Council also expressed the need for the president to act cautiously in respect of the ongoing General ‘Tunde Idiagbon Flyover construction project in Tanke.
‘We must also inform President Buhari of the need to avoid visiting the construction site of the so-called General Tunde Idiagbon Flyover construction project at Tanke where engineering experts have raised the alarm concerning cutting corners, compromising civil engineering standards, and adopting crude and crooked methods not in line with international construction best practices. These sharp practices which had violated quality assurance procedures and global best practices have been identified by the group of engineers’ former Speaker Ali submitted.
The PDP Unified Campaign Council urged President Buhari to stay of inauguration of projects and rather limit his activities to attendance of presidential campaign rally.
‘We call on President Buhari to distance and dissociate himself from this fraud. He should simply visit Kwara State for his party’s campaign rally, deliver his message to the electorate, and leave without being stained with the falsehood and lies being machinated and concocted by Governor Abdulrazaq and his cohorts in Kwara state’ Ali said- Team@orientactualmags.com
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