LG Election: Saraki lacks moral standing to condemn the poll, says KWSG

Kwara State Government has said that the Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki lacked moral standing to condemn the last weekend election, whereby the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC) declared all the Chairmanship and Councillorship candidates of the ruling APC as winners in the election.

The Kwara state government, in a veiled reaction by Commissioner for Communications Mrs Bola Olukoju  to the condemnation of the former Senate President through his media aide, who claimed in a statement that people of the state have rejected the current administration by their assessment of the election, said in the statement that “as far as people’s welfare is concerned, Saraki lacks the moral standing to talk."

It added that,"He is a bald hairdresser recommending his unfailing hair restorer. He is a snail claiming a championship in a community of horned animals. The world is facing serious economic challenges. Nigerians have not been immune to the same."

It alleged further that," Saraki’s PDP not only fruitlessly tried to frustrate the conduct of the election through the court, but it mobilised urchins and its local collaborators to disrupt the balloting with their shenanigans and hooliganism after seeing that they lacked the credibility or a record of convincing people to vote for them."

The Statement also said that,“It took the popular will of the people to cast their ballot. The government has done well enough to win the trust of the people, and that was what played out, regardless of the noise from Saraki's men. 

"It is bewildering that Saraki’s party is confused between floating the narrative that no election took place and claiming a victory from an election it said was never held. That is the lot of a confused, desperate people that Senator Saraki leads,” 

“We also find it incredible that Senator Bukola Saraki was talking about people’s welfare. The record of his iron-fist imperialism, which featured non-payment of salary, use of thugs to intimidate people, and high rate of suicides and destitution and other menaces faced by workers is still fresh". said Commissioner for Communications, Mrs Bola Olukoju among others in the statement.