Kwara: Gov aspirant disassociates self from Saraki, PDP

A governorship aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state, Lukman Mustapha, has denied being a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) even as he disassociated himself from the Senate President Bukola Saraki and his new party.
Mustapha said he neither never held any position nor had contract under “the current hegemony in the state”, and assured that if given the governorship ticket of APC in Kwara, his government will turn the state to Dubai of Nigeria.
“I’m not a mole for anybody; I have been an opposition to the current hegemony in the state.
I don’t know what makes me a mole.
I have never gotten any contract or held any political position under the current hegemony,” he stated.
The aspirant, who stated this yesterday when he returned his nomination forms, said the downward standard of living of people in Kwara state prompted his decision to vie to rescue the people.
He claimed that the state lacks basic amenities like water, health or any other infrastructure despite the huge revenue accruable to it from IGR and federal allocation.
Also, Mustapha accused Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed-led government of deliberately adopting policies that increased poverty in the state.
In another development, an aspirant from Bauchi state, Captain Bala Jibril, said aspirants from the state will only accept the outcome of a direct primary option, stressing that at the moment, there were two suits pending at the Federal High Court in Abuja on the conduct of the last congresses of the party in the state.
According to him, if the primaries are conducted through indirect primaries, it would amount to building the foundation of a house on nothing, stressing that such a building would not stand.
He accused the state Governor Mohammed Abubakar of wasting state resources, adding that while state like Lagos has projects for the president to commission, Bauchi showed the President what he described as “Omolanke Shanu”