How I will turn around Kwara fortunes — PDP gov’ship candidate

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, Alhaji Abdullahi Shuaib Yaman, has said the ruling APC has chased itself out of power with its scorecard in the last three years in the state. Yaman, who stated this in Ilorin, pledged to turn around the fortunes of the state if elected […]

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, Alhaji Abdullahi Shuaib Yaman, has said the ruling APC has chased itself out of power with its scorecard in the last three years in the state.

Yaman, who stated this in Ilorin, pledged to turn around the fortunes of the state if elected governor.

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According to him, the ruling party had set the ship of Kwara in reverse gear and refused to think outside the box to maximise its huge potential to create wealth for the benefit of citizens.

Rather, the PDP candidate, who is a former commissioner at the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RAMFC), said the APC has only plunged the state into a huge debt crisis with catastrophic consequences for its development.

He, however, assured that the PDP administration would take advantage of the natural resources in Kwara to create more wealth.

“Kwara is richly endowed with enough resources to create clusters of production for aggressive and productive youths from which we could exact tax to be ploughed into the social infrastructure part of governance like education, health and social security.

“It is not enough to go to Abuja every month to seek a monthly allocation from oil to bring and spend in Kwara. Any stupid man on the street can spend money, so that is not what a governor is elected to do principally,” he said.

He accused the APC administration in the state of gross incompetence, saying that it had refused to think outside the box.

“As a matter of fact, that area has the same soil that can grow cotton, flowers, and many other products that can be exported via our cargo airport in Ilorin.

“There are only four airports in the country that have the quality of runway we have in our airport,” he added.