The road is narrow for one’s enemies. This is one of the best ways to describe the matters tying Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and Minister for Information, Lai Mohammed, to a public boxing ring. Contrary to the concept of solidarity that political party members are supposed to uphold, neither Abdulrazaq nor Mohammed is taking it easy with the other.
The Yoruba slogan for ‘enough is enough’, ‘o to ge’, has reportedly become the trending mantra in Kwara State. This can be traced back to the lamentations of the Information Minister who has done nothing to hide his discontent with Governor Abdulrazaq with whom he once pushed the wagon of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the influence of national figure and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, out of their native Kwara State. This time, Mohammed is not holding back but going straight for Abdulrazaq’s jugular.
Mohammed recently explained the origin of his feud with the governor. According to him, Abdulrazaq served as the rising sun against a tide of darkness in 2019 and so had his full support, and that of his friends, to take over the reins of power in Kwara State. And he did. Unfortunately, noted Mohammed, Abdulrazaq is not fulfilling the purposes of his calling but has gone against everything they once stood for.
To this effect, Mohammed noted that his All Progressives Congress (APC) party has ‘entered once chance’ with Abdulrazaq, a phrase that suggests a dangerous ride with little hope of salvation. Even though he was warned during the primaries, Mohammed said he thought that it could not be worse than the former administration. But he could not be more wrong as he implied that Saraki’s administration is still a shade of light compared to Abdulrazaq’s pitch-black administration.
In other words, Mohammed and his camp of the APC elite in Kwara are not happy with Governor Abdulrazaq, convinced that the number-one Kwara citizen is no longer worthy of his position.
Whether this rising tide against Abdulrazaq will come to any meaningful conclusion remains to be seen, although the mantra of ‘o to ge’ continues to ring out from the minister and his followers.
