ACN’ll reclaim Kwara, says Tinubu
From LAYI OLANREWAJU, Ilorin
Monday, June 27, 2011

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The national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the weekend said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government in Kwara State would soon give way to ACN.

Tinubu, who gave the assurance while speaking at the 50th birthday lecture of the ACN governorship candidate in the last election in Kwara State, Mr. Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN) noted that leaders of the party were battle-ready for eventual change of baton in Kwara.

The former governor of Lagos State added that ACN was out to dislodge the Saraki dynasty in the state for a more progressive and forward looking government headed by Mohammed Dele Belgore.
He therefore urged Kwarans to stand solidly behind the ACN governorship candidate in the April polls, saying, “we are out to rescue Kwara State. But I urge you not to be discouraged but rather steadfast.”
Earlier, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Raji Fashola (SAN) in the birthday lecture entitled: “Relationship between Democracy and Good Governance,” said the current unitary system of government in Nigeria masquerading as federalism would continue to deny the country good governance.

According to him,“I am an optimist but until that unitary arrangement is changed for a more federal arrangement, Nigeria will remain poor and denied of good governance.” He said, “those who argue for a federal arrangement do not feel that we need the federal arrangement for the sake of it. If we have conducted elections, which debatably were better than what we did in 2007, that should not be the end of the world. We must now seek to bring content into the electoral progress by making sure that we translate electoral progress into a better quality of life for our people. We cannot do that under this unitary arrangement where everything comes from Abuja.

“We do not seek federal arrangement because we like that word, ‘federal’ we seek it because Nigeria is made of many small nations, many diverse ethnic nationalities with different cultures and they are differently blessed with resources and political history has kept us and the federal arrangements is the best way to harness these resources.”

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