Kwara Gov. Blows Hot On Lai Muhammed, Says He Can’t Work with Saraki

• Kwara state governor has described Lai Muhammed as a noisemaker who can’t win an election in his ward
• The governor also explained that he can’t work with Bukola Saraki because he’s an authoritarian

Ekohotblog reports that Kwara state governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has finally spoken up on the conflict him and Minister for Culture and Information, Lai Muhammed.

 

The governor revealed this in an interview with Thisday newspaper on October 17th. Where he was asked questions bordering on his administration so far, the successes, challenges both political and administratively.

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Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq described Lai Muhammed has a noisemaker without a local structure in the state and described how the minister dehumanized him. He also accused the minister of siphoning campaign funds donated to him during the 2019 elections.

“Lai cannot win an election in his ward. They’re good with social media noise. That’s all they do” the governor said

Explaining how he was treated disrespectfully, the governor said

“They totally dealt me a bad card. The party decided that where there is no governor, the candidate will be the President’s coordinator. They didn’t allow me to operate. They frustrated me. Even when the President was coming, I set up a committee for the president’s campaign, they set up their own committee. I know where I’m going so I disbanded my committee and let them do it. Even when the president arrived they put me at the back of a Coaster bus. It was when we got to the Emir’s Palace because it was from the airport to the Emir’s Palace then to the campaign venue, that the president’s ADC tapped my back and said are you not the candidate? I said ‘yes.’ He said I should be riding with the President.”

“I stayed where they put me. He said I should wait, then went to speak with the president. The president said I should ride with him. Then Lai Mohammed got up and went to speak with the ADC and said he wants to ride with the President but the ADC said Mr. President has spoken unless you go and meet him. Lai Mohammed went to meet the President and said he had something important to tell the president, that could he ride with him. The president said okay. So when we finished the event, one security guy on the president’s team just said I should sit in the car, opened the door and I sat with the president. It’s this sort of thing they were doing. Lai sat in Abuja. All the money donated to the party in the state, he never accounted for them.”

Explaining why he can’t work with Bukola Saraki, the governor described him as an authoritarian

“We can be in the same space, but their own space does not accommodate anybody. There’s a glass ceiling in their space, which means you cannot rise up beyond a certain level. And then he is authoritarian, which is to say there’s a leader. As you can see in APC today, there is no leader, everybody is throwing banters and doing what they want. That’s democracy. It’s rowdy with democracy, but when you’re in their own space, there’s only one leader.”

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