LG Elections: Kwara Govt Calls Assertions Made By Saraki ‘Product Of Hallucination’
Kwara State Government on Wednesday described as laughable and self-flattery the comments made by Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki on the outcome of the local government elections held in the state on Saturday, September 21,2026.
Asserting that the ruling All Progressive Party (APC) candidates convincingly won across the state, the state government in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by the Commissioner for Communication, Mrs. Bola Olukoju said Saraki’s PDP had not only fruitlessly tried to frustrate the conduct of the LG elections through the court but had also mobilized urchins and its local collaborators to disrupt voting with their shenanigans and hooliganism after seeing that they lacked the credibility or a record of convincing people to vote for them.
‘It took the popular will of the people to cast their ballot. The government has done well enough to win the trust of the people, and that was what played out, regardless of the noise from Saraki’s men. It is bewildering that Saraki’s party is confused between floating the narrative that no voting took place and claiming a victory from the voting it said was never held. That is the lot of a confused, desperate people that Senator Saraki leads.
We also find it incredible that Senator Bukola Saraki was talking about people’s welfare. The record of his iron-fist imperialism, which featured non-payment of salary, use of thugs to intimidate people, and high rate of suicides and destitution and other menaces faced by workers is still fresh. In 2016 when things were so tough and various categories of workers were not being paid, Kwarans remembered how Senator Saraki was fighting to buy exotic cars while public funds were also being used to transport people to show solidarity for him in the dock. The same Senator Saraki is notorious for his conversion of public property to personal use, even as the government he inspired was not paying workers while all their appointees were getting 100% salaries and other perks of office. The government that he struggles so hard to bad-mouth has cleared the years of salary arrears that his lackeys left unpaid.
As far as people’s welfare is concerned, Saraki lacks the moral standing to talk. He is a bald hairdresser recommending his unfailing hair restorer. He is a snail claiming a championship in a community of horned animals. The world is facing serious economic challenges. Nigerians have not been immune to the same.
In addition to the efforts of President Tinubu to ease things, not only is the Kwara State Government committed to public welfare, as is evident in its many programmes, it continues to execute different infrastructural projects and social protection programmes that strengthen the purchasing powers of the people. The government is also not denying people their wages while its appointees enjoy the perks of office as the Saraki-inspired government did. We urge Senator Saraki to reflect on his legacies of impoverishing people and organizing questionable philanthropic feasts to throw morsels at the same people during which hundreds died’ the statement added- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
