Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak, may have stirred the
hornet’s nest if reactions within and outside Kwara State to the state
government’s demolition of Ile Arugbo, the totem of the late strongman
of Kwara Politics, Dr. Olusola Saraki, are anything to go by.
The
demolition of the building that served as a home for the aged has been
greeted with outrage from members and sympathisers of the Saraki
political dynasty and other neutral individuals and groups who saw the
move as a political vendetta against the dynasty.
This is in
spite of the state government’s explanation that the acquisition of the
land on which the said building was erected did not follow the proper
channel.
In a furious reaction to the exercise, the Minister of
State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki, berated
Governor Abdulrazzaq for demolishing her father’s property, accusing the
governor who assumed office on May 29 last year of rushing into
settling perceived old generational family political scores.
“Revenge cannot be a policy thrust of governance,” she said in a statement that was choked full with venom.
Feelers
from Abuja also indicate that the demolition exercise might have
created a strain in the relationship between the Presidency and Governor
Abdulrazak.
It was gathered that the power brokers in Abuja were
angry that the governor went beyond the bounds in his avowed mission to
checkmate Saraki’s hold on Kwara State.
When the news of the
demolition exercise got to the Presidency, an influential source in the
Aso Rock Presidential Villa was sighted saying: “Who does this boy
listen to? This is really embarrassing.”
Thereafter, the Presidency waste no time in calling the governor to order, asking him to be more “temperate” in his actions.
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