Elders of Kwara APC slam Lai Mohammed

Elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State have condemned the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, for allegedly insulting and demeaning the state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.

While reacting to recent comments made by the Minister about the governor in an interview, the party elders under the auspices of the ‘Kwara APC Elders Caucus’ took exception and decided to call him to order.

Nurudeen Mohammed, the Caucus’ spokesperson, said at a press conference in Ilorin, the state capital, on Monday:

“It is most unfortunate for Lai Mohammed to disparage Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s political standing in Kwara State, as well as his role in funding the 2019 electioneering campaigns and election proper.”

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Mohammed, a former Nigerian Ambassador to Malaysia, who was joined at the press conference by other caucus leaders such as Kunle Sulyman, Senator Mohammed Ahmed, Chief Wole Oke, and Chief James Ayeni, said the Minister was being immature by closing the door to party reconciliation.

According to the former ambassador, little was known about the Minister in Kwara politics prior to 2002, when he was “apparently exported to the state from Lagos to come and take over governance just like his colleagues in other Yoruba states, who had, before then, spent all their years in Lagos where they cut their political teeth and had held one political office or the other.”

“Of all his (Minister) Lagos colleagues who have previously been dispatched from Lagos to contest governorship elections in the current Republic, only Lai Mohammed has failed to win in his state where he contested in 2003.”

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“The question that one would like to ask is why he did not win the election.” The answer should be self-evident. Lai Mohammed was never seen in Kwara politics during the Second Republic, and he was never heard of in Kwara state politics during the Third Republic.

“He was a bit of an unknown back then. He has always considered himself to be a Lagosian rather than a Kwaran.

“As a result, he has no standing to insult and denigrate the Governor, who has done so much for the state.” “We will not fold our arms and let Lai Mohammed destroy Kwara State for selfish reasons,” the Caucus stated.