The newly appointed Minister of National Planning, Dr. Olanrewaju
Sulaiman, has said he would lead the struggle to liberate Kwara State
from the grip of a former governor, Bukola Saraki.
At a prayer/reception held for him in the Utako area of Abuja by
Kwara State indigenes who were members and supporters of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Suleiman said President Goodluck Jonathan mandated him
to take the state from Saraki last week Wednesday after he was sworn in
as minister.
“After being sworn in as minister, President Jonathan mandated me to
be at the forefront of the rescue operation our party is set to carry
out in our dear state, Kwara, for the greatest good of the greatest
number of people of the state.”
“Our people have over the years been subjected to political slavery
and internal colonialism by forces currently ruling the state through a
stolen mandate.”
“While giving me the mandate, the president said, ‘you are coming in
at a time that can be described as injury time in a football match,
requiring a very vital goal from you which you must score to deliver
Kwara back to PDP come 2015 general elections’.”
He described the crowd that attended the reception hosted in his
honour as a clear indication that his mission would be successful and
added that two chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State
had defected to the PDP shortly after he was sworn in as minister.
According to him, the defectors included a former Senator and a
Senior Special Assistant to Senator Bukola Saraki when he was governor
of the state. He said the defectors would be unveiled in Ilorin at a
grand reception planned for him by party supporters after the Sallah
celebration.
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