The Kwara State Government has accused former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, of lacking the moral rectitude to condemn last weekend’s local government elections conducted in the State.
The State Commissioner for Communications, Bola Olukoju, said this through a statement issued in Ilorin.
The Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC), after the September 21 local government elections, had declared all the chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as winners of the election.
But Saraki, a former governor of the State and later President of the Senate, condemned the outcome of the polls.
In its response, the government in the alleged that that as far as the people’s welfare is concerned, Saraki lacks the moral standing to talk.
It also alleged that Saraki’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) not only tried to frustrate the conduct of the election through the court, it also mobilised urchins and its local collaborators to disrupt the process.
According to the government’s statement, it took the popular will of the people to cast their ballot, stressing that the government has done well enough to win the trust of the people, adding that is what played out, regardless of the noise from Saraki’s men.
“We are bewildered 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 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,” the statement said.