The local government election is few weeks away, but Offa Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmanship candidate, Comrade Lukman Salahudeen, is already jittery.
Apparently, Eluku is frustrated with the solid support base of APC in Offa and the growing acceptance that our candidate continues to enjoy from the well-informed mass of the people. Otherwise, nothing explains his fixation on our party and candidate; when he is expected to articulate his agenda for community development except for his poverty of ideas, which he chooses to cover up with cheap falsehood and campaign of calumny.
Offa will not be bamboozled by Eluku's infantilism. We are too civilised and educated as a people to settle for the campaign of calumny and cheap falsehood.
In a statement he recently released, Eluku claimed that the APC have declared themselves winners and have written the result of the election. This is so laughable. We see this as an acceptance of defeat by Comrade Lukman Salahudeen, who knows his party PDP has since lost credibility with Kwarans. APC has no reason to manipulate elections in Kwara. Our party has defeated PDP in the two previous electoral cycles (2019 and 2023), these were elections conducted by the national electoral body, INEC.
It was during the reign of Eluku's party leader and his newly found mentor that Kwara witnessed wholesale manipulation of election results, disregard for the choice of the people, and unleashing of thugs on political opponents. Our party has won in two previous election cycles where the wishes of the people prevailed nothing will be different in the forthcoming LG election.
Considering the huge investment the leader of our party, Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has made in the state and particularly Offa local government, in education, road infrastructure, social investment, workers welfare, healthcare among others, we are assured that the people of Offa will entrust our party with the mandate to lead again, and will never return to the people who owed salaries and allowances recklessly, diverted funds meant for education and human capital development, and left our health facilities to rot. These are key indices in development, which the people will consider when they turn out to cast their votes in September.
Eluku should, therefore leave our party and candidate out of his poverty of ideas. His consistent campaign of calumny and falsehood where he's expected to speak to issues and sell his candidacy is pathetic.
It’s so disturbing that PDP cannot hold an intelligent engagement with the people, except resorting to cheap blackmail.
Offa development will not be sacrificed for some aluta comrade who thinks politics and life end with raw display of emotion, infantilism, character assassination, cheap blackmail, misinformation, and arrogance. Eluku and his promoters should know that Offa will never settle for less. Our candidate has shown maturity and level-headedness despite PDP's provocation. He embodies civilization for which Offa is known.
On this note, we want to reaffirm to the relegated PDP that the APC in Offa local government will never be swayed by their lies and cheap propaganda. We will remain focused on our issue-based campaign and stay committed to the development of Offa and our people at large.
We urge the faithful people of laare-buure omo olofa majo to remain focused and determined as this government will never jeopardize the interest of the good people of Offa. We must not allow Eluku to destroy our peace and communal relations with his false allegations and inflammable comments. We have no other place to call home except Offa.
APC New Media Team
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