Some stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state have written an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, warning in opposition to Governor AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman’conflict of attrition in opposition to the elites within the state.
The letter famous that if the Governor isn’t known as to order it might negatively have an effect on the probabilities of APC within the forthcoming 2027 basic elections within the state.
The letter dated April twenty second, 2026, addressed to the President and copied the Nationwide Chairman within the identify of Involved Members of Kwara All Progressives Congress, is signed by Hon. Olosasa Toyin, Comrade Onimaza Hamzat Ganeey and Hajia Abdulrahman Alabi.
The letter made out there to newsmen at a press convention, Thursday on the APC Nationwide Secretariat, counseled the President for the silent reforms and progressive insurance policies his administration is initiating to reposition the nation’s economic system.
The stakeholders stated: “We imagine the large assets your administration is placing on the disposal of the federal government within the numerous states are aimed toward guaranteeing that they’re able to impact real developmental initiatives of their respective domains.
“These are measures that may assist the celebration in subsequent yr’s election and make your re-election in 2027 a straightforward job.
“Nevertheless, we need to name your consideration to how in Kwara State, the Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq is pursuing insurance policies, actions and measures which might be inimical to the success of the celebration and adversarial to its reputation among the many folks. Other than his conflict of attrition in opposition to the elite throughout the state, he has additionally intentionally refused to endear himself to the bizarre folks.
“Whereas in latest occasions, the safety crises within the state have been on the rise, the governor has proven no empathy by not being current on the scenes of the catastrophe. This insensitive posture has alienated him from the folks and is rubbing off wrongly on the recognition of the celebration. His actions are de-marketing the APC.
“The scenario has been made worse by the reckless method during which the governor is prosecuting the politics of succession and the partisan course of in the direction of fielding candidates for the 2027 polls.”
The petition additionally accused Governor AbdulRahman of refusal to determine with the management and membership of the celebration since he grew to become the largest beneficiary efforts to win energy for the progressives, a transfer that finally succeeded in 2019.
“His latest transfer to forcefully affect who succeeds him and who will get what within the distribution of different positions in the direction of 2027 is being resisted by celebration members. He has subsequently resorted to utilizing forceful, undemocratic and coercive measures by deploying safety companies in opposition to celebration leaders.
“The governor had initiated prison litigations in opposition to some celebration leaders in an effort to pressure them to toe his line. Examples of such circumstances are those he filed in opposition to two distinguished elder statesmen, Hon. Ilyasu Moro and Hon. Mashood Mustapha and different celebration loyalists. Once more, he has pissed off all efforts by Senator Soliu Mustapha to execute a number of developmental tasks as a part of the legislator’s contributions to the district he represents.
“Because of a few of his actions, Governor Abdulrazaq is extremely unpopular within the Central and Southern Senatorial Districts of the state. The scenario has gotten so unhealthy that aspirants who initially have been utilizing his image of their posters have stopped the observe when it grew to become clear to them that any aspirant who carefully identifies with him won’t win within the direct main or basic elections.
“The governor is now seen as a legal responsibility, a plague to the celebration’s candidates, quite than an asset. Within the Kwara North senatorial district the place the governor has sustained some degree of help, it’s due to his promise that he would hand over to a governor from the zone.
“His alternative of candidate to succeed him is the Speaker of the State Home of Meeting, Hon. Danladi Yakubu. This choice is nonetheless questionable as his motivation isn’t believed to be altruistic. The Speaker is thought to be his stooge, together with whom he had perpetrated all of the questionable choices of his administration.
“The speaker is subsequently most popular as an individual who will cowl up for the governor after his exit from workplace. That’s the reason Kwarans, each within the APC and out of doors it, view the governor’s Kwara North/Danladi Agenda as Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq’s Third Time period Plan.
“Nevertheless, as it’s steadily changing into clear to the Governor that leaders and members of the APC within the state and on the federal degree won’t observe him in his self-preservation agenda, he’s changing into determined and looking for diversionary ways. His latest transfer in opposition to Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the Waziri of Ilorin, is maybe some of the unpopular measures he has ever taken. This transfer won’t work properly for the APC as it’s already galvanising public help in favour of the opposition.”
The APC stakeholders stated former Senate President Bukola Saraki stay the preferred politician within the state, including that many citizens within the state don’t purchase the gimmick that he had a job to play within the Offa theft or any theft incident, for that matter.
“It’s an unpopular transfer. Although, he’s within the opposition, we’d have most popular that the APC authorities not take measures that might win sympathy for him and his celebration. We, the APC stakeholders, imagine that although Saraki isn’t with us, we don’t want to be on the unsuitable aspect of public opinion and public notion by transferring in opposition to him.
“Your Excellency, many Kwarans are decoding Governor Abdulrazaq’s present transfer in opposition to Saraki as a conflict being not directly waged by your good self. They’re questioning whether or not the Kwara State Governor is performing in your behalf to decimate Saraki and that line of thought is creating pressure throughout the state.
“This transfer in opposition to Saraki is unpopular. It’s working in opposition to our celebration, the APC, and should have an effect on our fortunes within the elections. Additionally, the case in opposition to Saraki is already creating useless pressure within the numerous communities within the state.
“killing and kidnapping our folks to place them on trial in courtroom. It’s also shocking that the governor has refused to go to the victims of a few of the killings and kidnappings by bandits of their respective communities as anticipated of a frontrunner.”
The letter cautioned President Tinubu and the Nationwide Chairman that the perceived “missteps and inactions shouldn’t be allowed to negatively have an effect on the celebration’s fortune.
“So, we have to instantly and promptly checkmate this governor. We subsequently enchantment to Your Excellency to instantly name Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to order. He mustn’t drag the celebration and its candidates in subsequent yr’s elections into the mud.
“Mr President, because the chief of the nation and our celebration, we urge you to urgently step into the scenario in Kwara State and be certain that no detrimental strikes have an effect on the plan of the APC to ship the State to our expensive celebration in 2027.”