2023: Don’t Allow People You Chased Out Return To Power – Lawan Tells Kwara People
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Saturday advised the people of Kwara State not to allow those they chased out of the state government in 2019 find their way back to power.
He noted that the current administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took over power in the state in 2019 from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which is scheming to recapture power in 2023.
Lawan, who stated these in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State while commissioning some of the Constituency projects sponsored by Senator Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, urged the people of Kwara State to continue to keep faith with the APC.
Lawan spoke at a town hall meeting was organised by Senator Oloriegbe to account for his stewardship and also declare his intention to run for a second term in 2023.
In the words of Lawan; “I will like to remind you here, those people that you chased out will never get tired of trying to come back. You have only one more of “Otoge” and they will never come back.
“In 2023, just chase them far away from Kwara, and they will never find their way to Kwara. Don’t take it for granted. They are smart people. You know that. Chase them far away, if you can, up to the Atlantic Ocean if you chose to chase them to the South. If you wish, chase them up to Niger Republic. Chase them far away from here.
“The people of Kwara, you have gotten what you deserve from 2019. You have a state Governor that is for you. You have your National Assembly members that are for you. You have your state Assembly members that are for you and council chairmen and councillors.
“Don’t ever take that for granted. Less than three years, what our state Governor in Kwara has done, what our members of National Assembly, our Distinguished Senators, all the three of them, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe from Kwara Central, Senator Sadiq Suleiman Umar of Kwara North, Senator Lola Ashiru of Kwara South, have given every time that they need to give for us in the Senate to achieve what we have been able to achieve in the Senate.
“You don’t need to think twice. Vote for them more than you did in 2019. Make the gap more than convincing. Vote massively. Don’t assume, well we have win in 2019, this people, send them far away from Kwara so that we can maintain the trajectory of what you have been able to get today because, Nigerians, having gone through 16 years of deprivation, of mis-governance between 1999 and 2015, deserve the Progressives to continue to provide leadership in Nigeria,” Lawan said.
Speaking on Senator Oloriegbe, the Senate President said the people of Kwara Central could not have had it better considering the achievements of the Senator within less than three years of his being in the Senate.
He further said; “What we watched, the 30 minutes documentary on the activities of Distinguished Senator Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe, showed something more than three-year activities of a Senator.
“For you to achieve what you did in less than three years, it beats my imagination, how a new Senator, in three years, can attract so many projects, sponsored so many bills and engaged himself in so many activities within a short time.
“Imagine if you had him as your Senator in the Eight Assembly, so if you are talking of seven years down the line, probably we will be here until next day going through his achievements,” Lawan said.
Earlier, Lawan performed the Foundation Laying ceremony of the Drug and Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Centre for Federal Neuro-Psychiatry Hospital, Budo-Egba, Asa Local Government Area.
Lawan also commissioned a Comprehensive Health Center, Dr Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe Foundation Building at Idi-Isin, Ilorin South Local Government Area and commissioned as well the Ilorin Emirate Mobile Health Clinic.
The Senate President commended Senator Oloriegbe for facilitating the idea of a rehabilitation center, adding that the idea of the center was “to show that the Federal government of Nigeria cares about our youths.
