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KWARA: PDP ‘Interprets’ Lai Mohammed’s ‘One Chance’ Remark

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a swipe at the All Progressives Congress (APC) over a messy crisis currently rocking the ruling party in Kwara State. 

The PDP said a recent statement made by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, that the APC produced a “one chance” governor in Kwara had vindicated its party. 

In a video that recently went viral on social media, Mohammed was seen openly criticising Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara. 

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The minister, while speaking at the inauguration of APC’s new secretariat in Ilorin on Saturday, had claimed that he single-handedly bankrolled AbdulRazaq’s election in 2019 and described the governor as an ingrate. 

“It was immediately after the governor emerged as the party’s candidate for the election that it dawned on us that we had entered one chance.

“But despite all the warnings from concerned party leaders and others who had reservations about his choice, our reaction then was that no matter what, his choice was better than where we were coming from. But we were wrong,” Mohammed had said. 

Reacting however on Tuesday, the PDP said the minister’s statement further confirms its party’s position that “the APC thrives on lies, deception, stealing and acts of political banditry.” 

The opposition party’s reaction was contained in a statement issued by its national spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan. 

The PDP said, “Nigerians all know that “one chance’ is a term referring to a form of robbery in which assailants lure unsuspecting victims into their vehicle, pretending to be heading to a particular destination, only to rob and afterwards kill or abandon their victim to fate.

“The declaration by Lai Mohammed therefore aptly fits, as the APC, at all levels, came into power through lies, false promises, deceptions and propaganda only to engage in reckless treasury looting, electoral malpractices, violation of the rights of Nigerians and reducing of our once thriving nation to world’s poverty capital.

“The PDP however invites Nigerians to note the declaration of members of the Kwara state House of Assembly who described Lai Mohammed as “a liar, who lies everyday”.

“This declaration by members of the Kwara House of Assembly directly points to how the APC used the instruments of lies, false promises, deception and propaganda to gain access to power in 2015.

“It is also descriptive of how the APC administration has continued to use the same instruments of lies, falsehood and deceit as a policy direction in their stranglehold on our nation.

“In any case, the PDP demands that Lai Mohammed, as a minister, should come clean on how, in his own confession, he “single-handedly” raised the huge sum of money, which he claimed he used to finance elections in Kwara state.

“This is particularly as the minister failed to give the details of the friends, politicians and families whom he claimed help him in “single-handedly” raising the said huge funds for his party.”

THE WHISTLER recalls that Mohammed and Governor AbdulRasaq have been having a running battle over who is the leader of the APC in Kwara State. 

The minister was regarded as the leader of the APC in Kwara, a status which changed by virtue of AbdulRazaq’s emergence as governor. 

The leadership tussle, which the party leaders had tried to keep from public glare, started in 2019 – less than a year after the Kwara governor was elected into office. 

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