THE Kwara State chapter of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has restated its support for the candidacy of the gubernatorial candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Senator Rukayat Gbemisola Saraki.
The council, in a communique issued at the end of a one-day retreat on 2011 election, held at Omu-Aran, in Irepodun Local Government Area of the state, on March 31, said the ACPN gubernatorial candidate was the best bet among the whole lot of gubernatorial candidates in the state.
In the communique, signed by its state chairman, Senator Suleiman Salawu, the Kwara YCE said the Yoruba in Kwara could no longer fold their arms and allow self-styled politicians to continue to dribble the masses in the state.
The council noted the efforts of the strongman of Kwara politics, Dr Olu-sola Saraki, who, it noted, was the only person that had invested his time, energy and material resources to the development of politics in the state, after the death of Chief J. S. Olawoyin.
It X-rayed the antecedents of gubernatorial candidates in the state, especially those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) and Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), saying that they had never identified with the Yoruba aspiration, as all of them wanted to reap where they had not sown.
The communique noted that the Yorubas of Kwara State had resolved not to allow a repeat of the 1811 episode, where they were sold out by the ancestors of one of the candidates vying for the gubernatorial seat.
It, therefore, charges all Yoruba in Kwara to vote for the candidate of the ACPN, Senator Saraki, because of the track records of her father, who had been involved in the development of Kwara politics for over 47 years.
Meanwhile, the winning chances of the ACPN has become brighter, following the defection of chairmen, gubernatorial candidates and members of six opposition parties and their supporters in the state to the ACPN.
The parties included the Labour Party (LP), National Transformation Party, National Conscience Party (NCP), Africa Renaissance Party (ARP), Democratic Alternative and the Republic Party of Nigeria.
The decision was announced at a joint briefing, where the candidates and party chairmen were present.
Giving reasons for their actions, the spokesperson, Noah Olawale of Democratic Alternate, said the decision was made after viewing the popularity of Senator Saraki, as well as the fatherly role the founder of the ACPN, Dr Olusola Saraki, had been playing in the state.
The council, in a communique issued at the end of a one-day retreat on 2011 election, held at Omu-Aran, in Irepodun Local Government Area of the state, on March 31, said the ACPN gubernatorial candidate was the best bet among the whole lot of gubernatorial candidates in the state.
In the communique, signed by its state chairman, Senator Suleiman Salawu, the Kwara YCE said the Yoruba in Kwara could no longer fold their arms and allow self-styled politicians to continue to dribble the masses in the state.
The council noted the efforts of the strongman of Kwara politics, Dr Olu-sola Saraki, who, it noted, was the only person that had invested his time, energy and material resources to the development of politics in the state, after the death of Chief J. S. Olawoyin.
It X-rayed the antecedents of gubernatorial candidates in the state, especially those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) and Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), saying that they had never identified with the Yoruba aspiration, as all of them wanted to reap where they had not sown.
The communique noted that the Yorubas of Kwara State had resolved not to allow a repeat of the 1811 episode, where they were sold out by the ancestors of one of the candidates vying for the gubernatorial seat.
It, therefore, charges all Yoruba in Kwara to vote for the candidate of the ACPN, Senator Saraki, because of the track records of her father, who had been involved in the development of Kwara politics for over 47 years.
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| Gbemisola Saraki, ACPN Gubernatorial candidate for Kwara State |
The parties included the Labour Party (LP), National Transformation Party, National Conscience Party (NCP), Africa Renaissance Party (ARP), Democratic Alternative and the Republic Party of Nigeria.
The decision was announced at a joint briefing, where the candidates and party chairmen were present.
Giving reasons for their actions, the spokesperson, Noah Olawale of Democratic Alternate, said the decision was made after viewing the popularity of Senator Saraki, as well as the fatherly role the founder of the ACPN, Dr Olusola Saraki, had been playing in the state.
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