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Kwara State-born Saliu Mustapha, a former deputy national chairman of defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), is campaigning to chosen as the next national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He bares his mind to journalists on contemporary national challenges and his chances of clinching the top party post. LEON USIGBE and BIOLA AZEEZ bring the excerpts.
IN this race, you are going to be contesting with bigwigs in the party – former governors, senators and others. When you look at that, do you not feel intimidated by their profiles?
This is a call to service, and when you are called to serve, you are not to be intimidated by names or titles; the most important thing is what you have to offer, how well are your intentions, what new ideas do you have to bring to the table and how accessible will you be because in politics and party administration, you have to be very tolerant, and very accessible to allow a lot of people to come on board the ship. S
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Traditional rulers in Ile-Ire district of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State have commended Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for approving the construction of bridges in the axis.
The Olu of Owode Ofaro, Oba AbdulRaheem Babatunde, and Onidera of Idera, Oba James Buremoh, in a joint statement on behalf of the communities, commended AbdulRazaq for approving the construction of Awere bridge in Owode Ofaro which collapsed a few years ago.
“We the traditional rulers and the entire people of Ile-Ire ward in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State express our profound gratitude to our God-given Governor, His Excellency AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, for approving the construction of the Awere bridge Owode Ofaro which was washed away by an unusual heavy rainfall of 2018,” the monarchs said in the statement.
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The spokesperson for the Elders Caucus of the Kwara State All Progressives Congress loyal to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, Revd Olubunmi Olusona, tells Tunde Oyekola why the APC chairman in the state, Bashir Bolarinwa, should not head the party’s caretaker committee in the state
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was the current Kwara APC executive formed in 2018?
The Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa-led caretaker committee of the Kwara APC was a child of circumstance; the committee was hurriedly put in place by the former National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole. The Bolarinwa-led committee was not a product of any party congress; he was appointed as the caretaker committee chairman. His letter of appointment is in public domain for all to see. In any case, he would never have emerged from a properly conducted party congress; he was handpicked from the weakest bloc of the groups that formed the Kwara APC after the inglorious exit of the former Senate P