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<\/p>\nThe minister, who is the leader of APC in Kwara, gave the assurance on Friday in Ilorin after a meeting with the state\u2019s Party Executive Council led by Alhaji Bashir Bolarinwa.<\/p>\n
He said contrary to the rumour in certain quarters that Abdulrazaq had been disqualified by a Kwara High court, no part of the court\u2019s decision nullified his candidacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI read the court judgment and there is no where that talks about our candidate being disqualified.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, we have appealed the judgment for other reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201dAs at today, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq remains the authentic candidate of the party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The minister added: \u201cAs we speak today, he is in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state with Mr President to launch the Presidential campaign of the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will be given the flag by the party National Executive as the authentic governorship candidate of APC in Kwara.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other faction can go to whatever length they want to go circulating the fake news, that he has been disqualified, they can never succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
It would be recalled that a Kwara High Court sitting in Ilorin had in a recent judgment recognised the Executive Council of the Ishola Balogun-Fulani faction of the APC in Kwara.<\/p>\n
The faction was dissolved by the National Working Committee of the APC after the Senate President , Bukola Saraki and Kwara Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed defected from APC to PDP.<\/p>\n
Mohammed said the Balogun-Fulani led faction is the mole of the \u201csinking opposition, PDP,\u201d who had resorted to blackmail, thuggery and violence.<\/p>\n
He said because the opposition could not believe and tolerate the wind of change in Kwara, they resorted to destruction of APC campaign posters and billboards.<\/p>\n
\u201dEven if they destroy all our bill boards and posters, the message of our party is in the minds of the people.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy are they being offended by our campaign slogan, \u201dO to ge\u201d meaning \u201cEnough is enough\u201d in Kwara?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The minister said that the people of Kwara are tired of the \u201cSaraki political hegemony\u201d which enslaved and impoverished them for many years.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured the teeming supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara that Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq is the authentic governorship candidate of the party in the state. The minister, who is the leader of APC in Kwara, gave the assurance on Friday in Ilorin after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,1893,5973,3281],"class_list":["post-73860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-kwara","tag-lai-muhammad","tag-saraki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}