Former president of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has recalled how the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is currently in power in Kwara State, used the ‘O to ge’ campaign to depose the Peoples Democratic Party from the state by fraudulent means.
He narrated that the campaign was rife with falsehoods and deception.
He pointed out that the approach was used to trick the state’s citizens in order to come out victorious in elections.
On Saturday, when he welcomed APC defectors in the state who had joined the PDP, Saraki gave a speech in the state capital of Ilorin.
The APC won the governor’s office, three Senate seats, six House of Representatives seats, and 24 state House of Assembly seats in the state’s general elections in 2019 by a 100% margin.
When meeting the defectors, Saraki called the APC’s 2019 “O to ge” election-winning movement “tissues of lies.” Slamming the initiative and alleging that it was built on the foundation Of dishonesty.
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‘But Kwarans have learnt their lessons in a bitter way now. I am confident that the PDP will send the APC away from the Government House in 2023 by the grace of God,’ he said.
He claimed that the poor performance of the incumbent governor, AbdulRaman Abdulrazaq, served as the foundation for his hopefulness toward the development of the state.
The PDP’s state chairman, Babatunde Mohammed, promised the defectors that all of the party’s efforts in the state would be conducted in an equitable field of play.
‘Residents of the state both indigenes and non indigenes are now regretting that they mistakenly voted for the current government in 2019,’ he stated further
It was disclosed by the defectors who were directed by Kayode Ogunlowo, based their course of action on allegations of victimization and intimidation by the state’s current government.
