Kwara Set For Conduct Of LG Poll

The Kwara State government yesterday restated its readiness to conduct the local government elections.

This clarification followed an allegation by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led state government planned to delay the election till 2025.

The government in a statement signed by the special adviser on media to the governor, Alh Bashir Adigun, said; “The stage is set for local government elections and we have no doubt that like previous elections the PDP will suffer massive defeat at the polls.”

The state PDP chairman, Hon. Babatunde Mohammed, had alleged that Governor AbdulRazaq was in connivance with the state House of Assembly tinkering with the local government law with the aim of delaying the local government elections till 2025.

“We condemn in strong terms, the attempt to alter section 20 (1) of the LG Law to increase notification of the election date by KWASIEC from the existing ninety (90) days to three hundred and sixty days. If this bill is passed into law the LG elections will automatically be shifted to the year 2025.

“The PDP in Kwara state joins other stakeholders in the state to demand the immediate suspension of this anti-democratic bill which aimed at further crippling grassroots governance and subjecting their monthly allocations to the sinister control and consumption of the governor through his illegal TIC chairmen,” the PDP chairman stated.

But, Adigun, in a statement urged Kwarans not to fall for the antics of the PDP which he noted never meant well for the state.