Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has kicked against the achievements purportedly attributed to his main rival in the February 2015 gubernatorial elections,Senator Simeon Ajibola of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP.
Ajibola had recently advertised in some national newspapers projects he attracted to the state as a senator.
In a swift reaction to the advertorial, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on wednesday advised the PDP candidate to stop peddling lies “in a desperate attempt to show he has performed as the Senator representing Kwara South”.
The position of Ahmed was contained in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Communications, Dr Muideen Akorede.
According to the statement, claims by Senator Ajibola that he contributed money towards projects like Baruten Road, the Ilorin Cargo Terminal and the International Vocational Centre, Ajase Ipo, dismissed the assertion as blatant lies, stressing that the said projects were funded from Federal Allocation, internal sources and bank loans.
The governor challenged the Senator to provide prove of his financial contribution to the projects in question, which he insisted were funded by the state government.
Governor Ahmed, the statement noted expressed disappointment that Senator Ajibola displayed ignorance about how state government projects are funded despite aspiring to govern the state.
On the issue of a 2km road in Isapa which Ajibola claimed to have executed, Governor Ahmed accused his opponent of being economical with the truth for failing to reveal that the state government also spent over N200m on the said road at the Senator’s request.
Alhaji Ahmed further challenged Senator Ajibola to reveal how many federal government projects he has attracted to Kwara State and which bills he has sponsored in the Senate stressing that the Federal Government’s Ajase Ipo to Erin Ile Road remains in serious disrepair despite being a major road in Kwara South which Ajibola represents in the Senate.
