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The Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has recounted how the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, manipulated party election results as far back as 2011 under the old Action Congress of Nigeria.

The governor, in an interview with journalists, recalled that Mohammed was the old ACN frontman in Kwara and that he decided to throw him (AbdulRazaq) out because they had their choice candidates.

The governor noted that his days in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were also unpleasant because of the dominance of the former governor and ex-Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

He said, “When this republic started, everybody was with Saraki in the All Nigeria’s People Party. Just a few of us were in PDP then. We launched the party, very few of us. We knew our goal, to remain in opposition and remove these people from power. That’s our goal from then up till now.

“Along the way, they started pulling out because most of them saw that they had a glass ceiling on the Saraki side. They started pulling out. We started in 1998. Where was Lai Mohammed in 1998? He was in Lagos.

“He came in 2003 to contest and went back. The other guy that was shouting was with Saraki. We remained here deliberately. We did not ask for anybody’s structure.

“We had people like Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, as well. He was with us. He was the first Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP. He has never been with Saraki. There were less than 10 of us. We deliberately continued to build our structure. In 2015, when Saraki moved to PDP, we left because we will not be part of it. We left the party for them. I moved out.

“I never contested for office, I was sponsoring candidates and building a party. I was even offered the position of Board of Trustees of the party. I refused. I said I have my business.

“Our goal was to change the system in the state. It was not until 2011 that we found ourselves in the ACN, but then ACN belonged to Asiwaju and Lai Mohammed was his frontman here. So, they had their candidate.

“We said let’s do free and fair primaries, they refused. Eventually, they threw us out and picked their own candidate.”

“The delegates were playing games so I stepped down to contest for Senate. I contested against Saraki. I believe they rigged the election.

“Many times, I have engaged with the traditional rulers, especially to say, let’s be accommodating, it will soon pass,” the governor said.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/11/01/how-ex-lagos-governor-tinubu-buharis-minister-lai-mohammed-said-no-free-fair-primaries
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The article headline is grossly misleading. Majority of what Abdulrazak referred to was his maltreatment by PDP in the hands of Bukola Saraki and other party members.


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Tinubu has never for once been a democrat. Tinubu is a fiatist authoritarian pretending to be a democrat

VoteTinubu2023:
The article headline is grossly misleading. Majority of what Abdulrazak referred to was his maltreatment by PDP in the hands of Bukola Saraki and other party members.


Vote Tinubu 2023

Only fools will vote Tinubu

Buhari wants sharia
ISIS wants sharia
Shekau wants sharia
Boko Haram wants sharia
12 Northern states are already using Sharia

Igbos want Biafra
Nnamdi Kanu wants Biafra

Why can't Buhari and ISIS and Shekau and Boko Haram be allowed to have their Islamic Sharia country while Nnamdi Kanu and Igbos have their separate democratic Biafra country in their own land in peace?

What is wrong with Africans? Fighting and killing for things Europeans will discuss and settle in 20 mins.

VoteTinubu2023:
The article headline is grossly misleading. Majority of what Abdulrazak referred to was his maltreatment by PDP in the hands of Bukola Saraki and other party members.


Vote Tinubu 2023

are you cursed?tinubu oloriburuku wo ni ki adibo fun again?that dead walking zombie

Abdulrasaq lost the APC primary in 2019 and it was Tinubu that imposed him on the party despite protest from people like Lai Mohammed. So, Abdulrasaq himself is a product of the lopsided internal party democracy that is prevalent in Nigeria.

Its no news that when campaign resolve interested parties will go Oblivion. I'm sure Jagaban knows that rigging southwest government to his will can only give him the Senate president atmost. He should forget about succeeding whoever the current president.

This man talks too much

Free and Fair Primaries never exists in Tinubu's lexicon ... Imposition is his watchword