Gubernatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, Alh. Abdullahi Shuaibu Yaman has challenged the State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazak, to talk with Kwarans rather than making spurious allegations in guided chat with his paid media hands.
In a statement issued by his special adviser on media and strategy, Wahab Oba, the gubernatorial candidate said the presentation of Governor AbdulRaham to his so-called “online publishers” is full of theories, hypotheses and rhetorics rather than verifiable facts.
According to the statement “three years down the line, Governor AbdulRaham is still repeating the same empty promises he made to Kwarans during his electioneering campaign”.
“Since inception, the governor has not succeeded in attracting any company or industry to the state, yet he keeps making unfulfilled, unspecific and timeless promises.
“Any promise without timelines is vague and cannot be taken seriously”, Yaman said.
“This radio speech/broadcast is merely a rehearsal of earlier jejune allegations, accusations and counter – accusations by the governor since inception of office”, Yaman alleged.
Meanwhile, Alh. Yaman has also challenged Gov AbdulRaham to tell kwarans why Harmony Holdings, with a valuation of over N25b, has remained in the hands of a sole administrator?
“Who are the board members of Harmony Holdings? When Iast was the company audited by the state’s Auditor-General and where is the audited report of the company, even after 2019?”, Yaman asked.
“Was it not the same Harmony Holdings that was alleged to have been owned by an individual during the 2019 electioneering campaigns? So, when was it discovered to be the property of the state? And when would the government apologise for the deceitful allegations?”, Yaman asked.
Yaman said further that if the AbdulRahman administration was elected to rectify the perceived wrongdoings of the past, ” why has it been unable to turn around Harmony Holdings, Aviation College, Computer Hub and other alleged ailing sectors of the state, if it truly has the competence to do so”.
“At present”, the statement alleged, “Kwara debt servicing is around N1.3bn from between N610m and N620m during the immediate past administration. The Governor must explain how and why the state got enmeshed in such a terrible financial predicament without commensurate infrastructure development”.
Alh. Yaman challenged the Governor to speak to Kwarans in live Radio and Television broadcasts as was done by his predecessors rather than wasting the state resources on his media agents.
“This is the only way the people can truly engage their governor and test his honesty and transparency”, Yaman said.
