The Truth About Kwara’s Security Efforts

We have read with amusement the latest propaganda piece by Wahab Oba titled “While Aládé Chases Shadows, Kwara Counts Graves,” as well as Anu Ibiwoye’s melodramatic outburst on Channels Television’s Politics Today of Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Both men—card-carrying members of the sinking PDP—have once again shown that their desperation for relevance is stronger than their concern for the truth.

Let us be clear: Wahab Oba, the self-acclaimed spokesperson of a collapsed dynasty, has made a career out of lies and blackmail since his days as Bukola Saraki’s court jester. Today, with his paymasters out of power and the PDP gasping for breath in Kwara, he has found new work—peddling falsehoods in WhatsApp groups. Likewise, Anu Ibiwoye’s sudden “expert” commentary on insecurity is nothing but a cheap audition for 2027, where he nurses senatorial ambitions.

Both men pretend to care about the lives lost to criminal elements, but their aim is not justice for the victims. It is political mileage. They are dancing on graves and weaponizing the pain of communities for selfish gains. This is the height of insensitivity.

Security challenges are not peculiar to Kwara. Nigeria as a whole is grappling with inherited insecurity—from Boko Haram in the North East to banditry in the North West and kidnapping in the North Central. As the military intensifies bombardments of criminal hideouts in Zamfara, Katsina, and Borno, the fleeing terrorists are dispersing to states like Nasarawa, Benue, Plateau, and yes, Kwara. This is a national security reality, not a local invention of AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.

Unlike the PDP years—when Kwara was treated as the private estate of a political dynasty and communities were abandoned to fend for themselves—today, security is being tackled head-on. Governor AbdulRazaq has been working round the clock with the National Security Adviser’s office, military formations, and local hunters and vigilantes to secure our borders and flush out these criminals. His interventions include:
Deployment of joint military operations across Kwara South and North.
Collaboration with vigilantes and traditional institutions for intelligence gathering.
Meetings with stakeholders, monarchs, and affected communities—ensuring residents are carried along in government efforts.

Direct support for security agencies, including equipment, logistics, and welfare.

These are practical steps—not WhatsApp essays or TV sound bites. The governor has already visited Ifelodun, Edu, Patigi, and other affected communities, giving assurances and mobilizing coordinated responses. Arrests of notorious terrorists linked to atrocities in the North East are proof that the system is working.

Oba and Ibiwoye deliberately ignore these realities. Instead, they recycle exaggerated stories, cherry-pick tragedies, and distort facts to paint a picture of total collapse. But the people of Kwara are wiser. They remember who left the state vulnerable by underfunding security while enriching a dynasty. They know who abandoned rural communities when they mattered only as voting blocks. And they can see clearly who is now working day and night to keep them safe.

The truth is simple: AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq inherited a national security crisis, but he is confronting it with uncommon courage and sincerity. No amount of PDP propaganda will erase that.
The opposition can continue to shout in WhatsApp groups and TV studios. But while they chase shadows, the government is chasing down criminals. And the people of Kwara know the difference.

–Adigun is the Special Adviser on Media to the Governor