A former
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State who recently defected
to the All Progressives Congress, Chief Iyiola Oyedepo, has said that the APC
in the state is in coalition with 15 other parties to wrest political powers in
the state from the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
He alleged
that Saraki, who is the political leader of the current ruling political elite
in the state, had not provided good political leadership in the state.
He listed
the the political parties in coalition to include, APC, KOWA, Labour Party,
Democratic Alliance, Young People’s Party, Peoples, Peoples Party of Nigeria,
Hope Party, YPP, DPC, NNPP, FJP, PDC, and the YDP among others.
Oyedepo
spoke with Saturday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on the sidelines of his
rousing welcome to Ilorin from Abuja after his defection from the PDP to the APC.
He said, “I
can boost of 15 parties that are with us. KOWA is with us, we are with Labour
Party, PPN and many others.”
Oyedepo
alleged that no fewer than N1trn had
accrued to Kwara State from statutory
allocations, internally generated revenue and loans for about 16 years.
He lamented
that even with the amount,poverty was still ravaging the state while the state
had been afflicted with infrastructure decay with lack of human capital
development.
But the
Senior Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor, Dr. Muyideen Akorede said
the state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed and his predecessor, Saraki had
provided superlative governance in the state.
He stated
that the state had won many national and international awards based on its
achievements in good governance and adherence
to the rule of law.
He
challenged Oyedepo to provide verifiable statistical and financial facts to
prove his claim that over N1trn had been mismanaged in the last 16 years in the
state.
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