Mid-term report: Group scores Gov. AbdulRazaq low

The Integrity Group of the Kwara chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s mid-term performance is below average.

According to the group, there is a yawning gap between myth and the reality on ground.

This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Abdul-Rahoof Bello, Media and Publicity Secretary of the group.

“Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s administration has a long  way to go as it is yet to break even in the production line of democratic dividends, which our party promised the people of Kwara,” he said.

Bello stated that the governor was only making motion without movement in the cyclical stereotyped ways of the past.

“We have not seen the governor thinking outside the box for a paradigm shift as promised by our party.

“One will need a microscope to see what the governor was celebrating as his achievements in the state.

“No no new project that was conceived and completed by his administration was commissioned as witnessed in many APC States in the country.

“The governor may be patching roads, tarring a few kilometers in the metropolis, repainting few schools, purchasing some refurbished tractors at prohibitive costs, replacing some waste bins in a few markets, providing some public toilets, paying salaries and window dressing some hospitals.

“We believed all these are some basic responsibilities of any government for which it deserved no kudos as being lavishly showered on it by some sponsored agents.

“Since the governor had not broken any new eggs for his own omelete for Kwarans, eulogising his administration over this could therefore, be likened to ‘someone prostrating for an ATM machine for paying your money.’

“The promise of our party (the APC) to the electorate was to do things differently from the ways of the past administrations in the state.

“It is disappointing that the present administration deserved an ‘Award of Excellency’ in impunity, lack of transparency, double standard, disrespect for due diligence and lack of compliance to the rule of law.

“No responsive and responsible government would have kept mum on some celebrated allegations of inflated contracts, especially on the Government High School, Ilorin; the illegality and fraudulent practices at SUBEB, and lots more.

“These are some infractions that the APC had promised the people that we were going to stop.

“It was on that covenant we got the electoral preference from Kwarans at 2019 polls,” Bello explained.