Kwara Gov To Sakari: We Are Ending Your Legacy Of ‘Anything Goes’

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has lampooned a former governor of the state, Bukola Saraki, after the latter claimed that the people of Kwara voted the current governor based on sentiments and propaganda allegedly employed by his party.

Saraki had claimed during a recent Arise TV interview that the people of Kwara feel disappointed for allowing themselves to be “sold lies and propaganda” ahead of the 2019 governorship election in the state.

The former Senate President also claimed that residents of the state are now testifying that “they were better of then than now” as his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), treated them better than the current All Progressives Congress-led government.

Saraki further bashed the AbdulRazaq-led administration, saying “at the end of the day in Kwara, there was no substance. It was raw propaganda and that’s what they are saying.”

But the governor responded to Saraki while speaking on Wednesday at the flag off ceremony for the training of newly recruited teachers at the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) in the state.

AbdulRazaq, who was represented at the event by the Secretary to the State Government Professor Mamman Saba Jubril, said Kwara lost its glory during the sixteen years that Saraki and the PDP governed the state.

His words: “What we met in 2019 was a legacy of ‘anything goes’, including in the education sector. Recruitment of teachers was politicised to the ridiculous extent that slots for teaching jobs were being shared at the meetings of the ruling party. I found it funny that the characters who replaced the golden legacy of our forebears with ‘anything goes’ in their bid to cast the state in their own egocentric image had the gut to say that Kwarans made a mistake in voting them out in 2019. Under them, Kwara lost its glory. The basic education system collapsed under their watch.

“I am proud to say that the very brilliant teachers that were recently engaged and are being given institutional training today are a legacy of our administration. We have successfully redefined how things should be done in the education sector. We raised the bar of how to engage those who hold the key to the future of our children. That is our legacy for history to judge.

“I commend the management of the Teaching Service Commission for this training session. I urge the new teachers to make us proud. We want to see our efforts materialise in the quality of teaching, care and commitment. We will do our bit in the area of welfare, especially promotion and related perks. I am aware of the hitches in the payment of the package for those we recently effected their promotion from 2017. This is being rectified. We are sorry about that. I urge them to kindly be patient.”