2023: No alternative to AbdulRazaq – Ex-lawmakers

Forum of former Kwara State House of Assembly members in the fold of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday, awarded a clean bill of health to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq over his performance and declared support for the governor’s re- election bid.

The forum declared that, “there is no alternative to his (AbdulRazaq’s) re- election for second term come 2023.”

Members of the forum cuts across legislators in the first republic to 8th republic in the state’s House of Assembly.

The former lawmakers stated that the three and half years administration of the AbdulRazaq’s led administration have witnessed even distribution of resources through execution of projects across the 24 constituencies of the state.

Addressing a press conference in Ilorin, the spokesperson of the forum, Benjamin Oyeyemi, said the last two budgets presented by the governor with capital expenditure getting lion shares, were catalysts to a visible business environment and rural and urban development of the state.

“The last two budget presentations were in favour of capital expenditures, in spite of sharp increase in salary and wages of public servants and cost of governance in the state. The forum notes that the recently presented 2023 budget proposals in which capital expenditures take lion share of 50.9% of the total budget estimates, is quite in order, laudable and a welcome development.

“The forum notes with satisfaction the laudable achievements of Malam AbdulRazaq in three and a half years of his assumption of office as governor of Kwara state and the uncommon way he had operated, which have brought physical developments and democratic dividends, right to the door steps of the people that voted him into office. His actions and mode of operation have been in such an unprecedented way and manner that have endeared him largely toto the people of Kwara state,” Oyeyemi stated.