By Abiodun Esan
#TrackNigeria: A group, Kwara Coalition for Good Governance and Accountability (Kwara-CGGA), on Tuesday criticised the statement credited to the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, that the outcome of the Presidential and National Assembly elections did not reflect the wishes of the Kwarans.
Hassan Omoiya, the Secretary General of the group, noted in a statement in Ilorin on Tuesday, that contrary to Sen. Saraki’s claim, the people of Kwara have spoken with one voice to retire him from Kwara politics.
“PDP’s claim that the card readers did not work in most part of Kwara and that the defeat it suffered emanated from over-voting was a reckless lie from politicians and a party not willing to admit their pathetic records with the people,” he said.
Omoiya added that the rumour that the PDP would win the Saturday’s polls by all means “suggests that the party was doing everything to thwart the wishes of the voters in connivance with some electoral officials.
“We hereby warn electoral officials and security agencies to avoid anything that could provoke people already pushed to the wall,” Omoiya said.
According to Omoiya, one would have expected the Senate President and the PDP to do in-house introspection on how and why they were routed in the presidential and National Assembly polls.
“Instead, what we have seen are a party and a leader neck-deep in self-denial and refusal to acknowledge their persistent maltreatment of the people of the state.
“How can a leader and a party notorious for their vainglorious attitude to governance expect not to be punished by the voters?
“As many right thinking analysts have observed, the so-called Saraki’s political machine is effective only through election rigging as was seen in the Offa rerun of 2012 and the Kwara State local government elections of 2017.
“The 2019 elections were, therefore, the litmus test of their popularity with the voters. The rest, as they say, is now history.
“With the attempt to insult the populace by saying they didn’t vote to teach Saraki and his followers a bitter lesson, the PDP and the discredited dynasty should expect more humiliation at the poll this Saturday,” Omoiya added. (NAN)
