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Kwara, the state of harmony!

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed's message of peace to Kwarans.


My good people of Kwara State. For many years,
we have lived in harmony, regardless of our
differences. Our people are friendly and peaceful.
And so, as we prepare to vote for leaders of our
choice in the forthcoming elections, I urge you to
remain calm and law abiding. The Army and
other security agencies have been deployed to
all the 16 local governments to keep the peace
and protect you. Your safety is guaranteed.
Perform your civic duties without fear. All you
need to do is cast your vote, wait for the
counting and return home.
We are a peaceful people and we will remain
peaceful long after the elections have come and
gone.
Kwara State: Its Good Here.
Signed
Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed
Executive Governor
Kwara State

KWARA 2015: Gov. Ahmed promises better
life for residents of border towns if re-
elected.

Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State
has pledged to embark on programmes
that would better the lives of the
residents of border communities in the
state, if re-elected. Ahmed, the All
Progressives Congress, APC,
governorship candidate for Kwara, made
the pledge on Friday during his
campaign tour of Baruten Local
Government Area of the state.
The governor blamed the inability of his
government to complete some on-going
projects in the area on paucity of funds,
but urged the people to re-elect him in
the April 11 governorship election.
He also implored the people to vote for
APC in the presidential and National
Assembly election scheduled for March
28. "The people are assured of a better
future if APC candidates are elected in
the general elections," he said.
Ahmed said that APC recognised
Baruten's strategic position in the
politics of Kwara, and promised
adequate provision of social amenities in
the area and urged them to vote
massively for the party. In his speech, Dr
Bukola Saraki, a former governor and
the leader of the party in the state, also
canvassed for the votes of the people for
APC in the elections.
Saraki said that the dwindling allocation
of resources from the centre to the state
and its local governments had affected
development in the state. He, however,
assured the people of more people-
oriented programmes if the APC
government is returned in Kwara and
voted in at the federal level.
In Ilesha-Baruba, the spokesman of the
community, Mr Yakub Adam, requested
for the construction of a dam in the
area, to provide water supply for cattle
at the International Cattle Market. Adam
also pleaded for the immediate
appointment of a new Emir for Ilesha to
fill the stool that had been vacant since
November 2014.
The community leader also requested for
more boreholes in the area as well as
construction of rural roads to link the
communities. When the governor visited
the palace of the Emir of Okuta, Alhai
Idris Abubakar, the monarch lauded the
Youth Empowerment Programmes of the
Ahmed-led administration.
Abubakar said that the Okuta community
had benefitted immensely from the
government, but urged it to expedite
action on the creation of Local Council
Development Areas.
The APC campaign train also visited
Gwanara, Gure and Yashikira.

Saraki: Court Restrains AIT, NTA, Premium
Times and 11 Other Media Outfits

An Ilorin High court has granted an
interim injunction restraining 14 media
establishment in the country from
publishing or further publishing or
causing or further causing to be
published defamatory, embarrassing and
degrading publications and or video
documentary against former governor of
Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki.
The interim injunction granted by the
court followed a motion ex- parte dated
and filed on March 19 by the applicant,
Dr Bukola Saraki.
The court presided over by Justice I. A
Yusuf also restrained the respondent in
the interim, by themselves, their
agents,privies, representatives and other
media entities from interfering or
further interfering with or from
violating the applicant’s right to dignity
of human person, right to privacy, right
to private ownership op property and
general right to property whether by
means of publication,transmission,
broadcasting and dissemination of any
video documentary or by any means
whatsoever.
Joined as respondents in the suit No.
KWS/74/2015 are Daar Communication,
NTA, Channels TV, Vanguard,
Leadership, Premium Times, Vintage
Press Ltd, ANN, Punch and Guardian.
Others are THISDAY, Pointblank news,
The Will and The Sun.
The originating notice was adjourned to
April 2, 2015 for hearing of the
application for the enforcement of the
fundamental rights of the applicant.

All I have to say to kwara people is that they either break away from the present now or they'll keep being deceived.

optimusprimer:
Saraki: Court Restrains AIT, NTA, Premium
Times and 11 Other Media Outfits

An Ilorin High court has granted an
interim injunction restraining 14 media
establishment in the country from
publishing or further publishing or
causing or further causing to be
published defamatory, embarrassing and
degrading publications and or video
documentary against former governor of
Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki.
The interim injunction granted by the
court followed a motion ex- parte dated
and filed on March 19 by the applicant,
Dr Bukola Saraki.
The court presided over by Justice I. A
Yusuf also restrained the respondent in
the interim, by themselves, their
agents,privies, representatives and other
media entities from interfering or
further interfering with or from
violating the applicant’s right to dignity
of human person, right to privacy, right
to private ownership op property and
general right to property whether by
means of publication,transmission,
broadcasting and dissemination of any
video documentary or by any means
whatsoever.
Joined as respondents in the suit No.
KWS/74/2015 are Daar Communication,
NTA, Channels TV, Vanguard,
Leadership, Premium Times, Vintage
Press Ltd, ANN, Punch and Guardian.
Others are THISDAY, Pointblank news,
The Will and The Sun.
The originating notice was adjourned to
April 2, 2015 for hearing of the
application for the enforcement of the
fundamental rights of the applicant.

Fools. Makers of the piece should publish it on YouTube.

Change is coming to kwara we cannot serve father and their sons

proudlykwaran:

Fools. Makers of the piece should publish it on YouTube.

you can help if you are so pained.
Guess you find all your news on youtube right?

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed scores high once more as he pays workers for the month of March.
@Governor_Ahmed #saymaigida

Election: Army deploys 300 soldiers in
Kwara

Ahead of next Saturday's elections, the
military high command has deployed
about 300 soldiers in Kwara state.
Spokesperson 22 Armoured Brigade,
Nigerian Army, Sobi Lt. Weri Finikumor
said the soldiers were deployed in Ilorin
and the other local government areas of
the state for the elections.
Finikumor added that the soldiers would
be there to maintain security and not to
meddle with the conduct.
He added that the soldiers would be 300
meters away from polling booths and
would not be involve in any thing
pertaining to election materials
including ballot papers and boxes.
Finikumor said the police are the ones to
be involved in security around the
polling units, adding that soldiers would
intervene on invitation of the police if
there is major security threat which the
police cannot handle

Wait After Casting Votes, Says Kwara APC

THE Director-General of All Progressives
Congress (APC) Campaign Organisation
in Kwara State, Razak Atunwa, has
decried the statement credited to the
Inspector General of Police that voters
should leave polling booths after casting
votes.
Atunwa, who is also the Speaker of
Kwara State House of Assembly, said, "it
is null and void, and of no effect.
Speaking as a constitution lawyer, the
law permits you to remain within the
vicinity of the polling booths, even after
casting your votes. In as much as you
have your PVC, you are entitled to be at
that polling unit without time limit. The
police boss, I am afraid, got it wrong. I
stand with the Chairman of INEC
Professor Attahiru Jega on this matter."
Meanwhile, the Niger State Police
Command has said it is fully ready to
provide adequate security for the
election. Speaking in Minna at the
passing out ceremony of 184 officers and
men of the command specially trained in
combat operations for the forthcoming
election at the weekend, the
Commissioner of Police, Olusola Amore,
said the police is fully prepared for the
election.
The officers and men, who are drawn
from all the police divisions in the state,
were trained in new operational tactics,
which include, counter terrorism
operations, kidnap rescue operations
and quelling of riots and civil
disturbances. The police commissioner
disclosed that the men were trained
specially to provide security for the
elections, and therefore, warned that the
police would not entertain any act of
violence from any political thug,
godfather or miscreant.
"Our men are ready for the election.
They have been well groomed to meet up
with the security suituation in the state
during the election period. "We are
warning all miscreants, political
warlords and thugs who think they can
disrupt the elections that we are ready
for them. We have a special brand of
police to take care of the election."
While assuring the personnels that all
their allowances and entitlement for the
election would be paid to them before
leaving for their duty post, the police
boss warned them that they would be
fully responsible for any act of violence
wherever they are posted for the election
duties.

Don't Serve As Political Thugs, Nans Warns
Students

The National Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS), Kwara Axis, has called
on students and youths in the country
not to be involved in violence that could
disrupt success of the forthcoming
general election.
The association made the call, just as it
declared its opposition to further
postponement of the election, saying the
poll must be held as rescheduled.
The group advised students not to allow
themselves to be used as tools for
violence by politicians, who may want to
perpetrate violence during and after the
election.
Chairman of the Kwara Axis Joint
Campus Committee of the NANS, Ibrahim
Jeje, who spoke on behalf of the Axis,
said students and youths as a major
stakeholders, should contribute to the
success of the election by discouraging
violence.
He advised the students to take into
cognisance the collective interest of the
country's students in deciding whom to
vote for and should not allow selfish
interest or money inducement to
influence their decision.
He stated: "It behooves on each and
every one of us to make a significant
contribution towards the development
and progress of our dear country; one of
such contributions is for us to vote for
only credible, God-fearing and
responsible leaders in the forthcoming
general elections.
"Our decision to vote and the choice of
whom to vote for should not be based on
our selfish interests, but on the collective
interests of Nigerian students, which is
our own constituency.
"On election day, when you take a ballot
paper to cast your vote - you will surely
be faced with different choices as
regards the candidate to vote for.
"One important thing you should take
into consideration is that your eventual
choice will have a huge impact on our
lives and that of the generation of
Nigerians to come.
"Let's not compromise our integrity and
allow politicians to buy our conscience.
"We must not exchange our voting right
for money. Our future is too precious to
be exchanged for money - our future
can't be priced.
"Most importantly, we must resist every
attempt by desperate and unscrupulous
politicians to use us as tools of political
violence and social unrest.

optimusprimer:
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed scores high once more as he pays workers for the month of March.
@Governor_Ahmed #saymaigida

You score a gov because he paid salary people worked and laboured for? ?.
Kwara needs change in my own sha, Omotosho should be given a chance maybe things will change in ilorin for the next 4years if not he should be voted out. Abdulfatah has done nothing in his first 4years, same with Ajibola, if any of d duo wins, it is well with kwarans

im sorry to say this... i no like that guy, abdulfatai ahmed... he no do anything for that state... i tot APC would bring back BELGORE....

sseunhayor:
im sorry to say this... i no like that guy, abdulfatai ahmed... he no do anything for that state... i tot APC would bring back BELGORE....

And your judgement is based on what?
He's delivered I'm all sectors sir; health, employment, Rural development, Infrastructure development and more...

Statements based on facts.

kart042000:


You score a gov because he paid salary people worked and laboured for? ?.
Kwara needs change in my own sha, Omotosho should be given a chance maybe things will change in ilorin for the next 4years if not he should be voted out. Abdulfatah has done nothing in his first 4years, same with Ajibola, if any of d duo wins, it is well with kwarans

in what aspect do you quantify Ahmeds duties and to and in Kwara state?

I believe you are mistaken.

Good Morning, please join the SSA MEDIA to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Royal FM 95.1 at 10am today as I discuss Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed's plans for Kwara State when elected for a second term. Not in Ilorin? Listen online at royalfm.net.

Dear Kwara Civil Servants, ignore desperate PDP lies that Gov. Ahmed will retrench workers if re-elected. KWSG is one of the few that pay workers promptly and increase salaries annually despite drop in allocation. It's better to get regular salary than be owed for 6 months as in some PDP states.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed is live on all radio stations in Kwara State at 8pm tonite(Royal FM 95.1, Midland 99.0, Harmony 103.5 and Unilorin FM 89.3. Not in Ilorin? Listen live on royalfm.net, radiokwara.com and unilorinFM.net. Pls RBC and tune in.