Kwara Gains of 2019 Elections will Never be Reversed, Says Olawepo-Hashim

Hammed Shittu in Ilorin

A former Presidential Candidate and a Chieftain of the Ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Hon. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has reiterated that the gains that came with the liberation of Kwara State in the 2019 elections would never be reversed despite the current schism by some political stakeholders in the state.

Olawepo-Hashim, who spoke yesterday during his courtesy visit to the Governor of Kwara State, Mr. Abdulraham Abdulrazaq, maintained that the liberation of Kwara took several decades and inflicted several battle scars on the participants.

He added that “no matter the level of disagreement among the stakeholders, Kwara must not be allowed to go back to slavery and socio-political emasculation that had arrested the progress of the state for many years.”

Olawepo-Hashim was emphatic that “never again shall Kwarans be allowed to be enslaved or go back to the era that stunted the growth of Kwara and Kwarans.”

He commended the governor’s policy of giving political space to youths and women and his efforts to restore the dignity of the state in the areas of education, infrastructures and human capital development, adding that “in fact, going forward is the only way forward for Kwara.”

He expressed confidence that the current crisis in the state chapter of the APC would be resolved “as a family affair in a family way, and enjoined the feuding parties to sheath their swords in the larger interest of the people of the state.”

In his response, the state governor recalled that the efforts to reposition the state had been challenging because “we met a state that has literarily collapsed in every sector.

He also promised to continue in his resolve to reposition the State to work for the larger interest of the people.