A faction of the crisis ridden party and ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, which branded itself,”Integrity Group” has affirmed that there was no contest that Governor AbdulRazaq was the leader of the party in the State.
The group expressed disappointment that the Governor raised questions about the hundreds of millions of naira allegedly sourced for his Governorship campaign which he claimed was hidden from him. The group argued that having won the election for which the money was raised, the Governor should have forgotten about the whole matter.
Spokesman of the group, Comrade Abdul-Rahoof Bello, at a press conference said,”the position of the party that the Governor is the leader is never in dispute and it is so recognised by the rank and file of our party in this State. The Governor today is sitting on monthly allocations running into billions of naira, same for Local and International grants among others. Of what relevance is the hundreds of millions of naira he’s talking about two years after since he had won the election he needed the money for. The elders made it clear to the Governor that even if he was handed all the monies and materials as he demanded, he could not have achieved more than the victory already achieved.”
The Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq at a book launch on “O to ge” movement revealed what he went through during his Governorship campaign in 2019. He complained of being sidelined in the activities of the party which was then led by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhai Lai Mohammed before his eventual victory at the polls. The Governor further raised questions on the funds that ran into hundreds of millions of naira which were raised for his campaign but was hidden from him.
The group also requested for the materials of the forthcoming party registration to be given to them also opted for direct congress immediately after the registration exercise, saying that they would not be part of the consensus arrangement being proposed by the Governor.
