Lai Mohammed fires back at Kwara Gov AbdulRasaq over N100m election funds

Few days ago the social media was awashed with the story that Lai Mohammed stole the campaign funds meant for election of Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRazak.

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Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazak made the allegation few days ago.

This is Lai Mohammed’s response:

“AbdulRazaq of Kwara is a Deeply Troubled Soul, Not Qualified for Public Office

When they picked him as the candidate, we had to go to Lagos, to all the leaders of the party to complain, to say look, the candidate you have given to us, we don’t see him again. But it seemed that we’re all resolved that in spite of him, we’re going to win the election. So when I read in an interview that he was the most popular person, he did not need anybody, I just chuckled to myself.

Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has given us over a thousand reasons why we have these problems and it depends on which side of the bed he wakes up from. At one point in time, he said he believed that I was the one that leaked the story about his lack of a school certificate.

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At another forum, he said it was because I blocked resources belonging to him. At another forum, he said I was working to undermine his candidature. The truth of the matter is that I am single-handedly, with a lot of my colleagues in Kwara State, responsible for the success of APC in the state.

As whether or not he has certificate, I don’t know about that, all I know is that there was this controversy, and he accused me of being behind it, which was completely not true. Let’s keep that till another day. This is a man who formed his cabinet, without even consulting me. Yes. I was not consulted and I’ve never complained to anybody.

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He made heavy weather of the fact that I did not recognise the speaker when I saw him. Of course, that was the first time I was seeing him. In 2018, as soon as Saraki left us, Oshiomhole called me and asked me in his very direct manner: do you want to run for governorship of your state and I said no sir.

“I said for two reasons sir. I said that it would be morally unconscionable for me, an Igbomina man from the same south senatorial district of Kwara State, to succeed another Igbomina man, who had spent eight years in office. We are the same clan, same ethnic group. I said I will spend all my time fighting and arguing for the legitimacy of it.

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Secondly, if I run for office, I’ll be distracted. I will not be in a position to coordinate the activities of everybody. I will just be interested in my governorship election, and he (Oshiomhole) thanked me for it. I thank God my strategy worked. All politics is local and I ensured that I did not impose any candidate anywhere for any office whether senatorial, reps or house of assembly.

Campaign Fund

 “The truth of the matter was that the impression he gave the party leaders was that he was a very wealthy man. That was the dummy he sold to the party leaders.

As soon as he got the ticket, we realised that he had no money at all and that’s why it now dawned on me that I had to go out and raise funds.

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He set up a 200-man campaign committee for his governorship, which he sent to me, which I approved but he did not even give us one penny to run it. He didn’t fund it and this is a man who ran a governorship campaign. He had no office. He was using one of the aspirants’ office. That is the truth of the matter. Let him tell us the address of his office.

On the allegation that I collected N100 million and never remitted it to him: Am I a post office? The businessman that he said gave me the money, doesn’t he know him? Did the man say he gave me money to go and give him? As I said, it’s extremely infantile, reckless and desperate for a politician to start talking about who gave what for a political campaign.

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I mean, it’s the height of desperation. It’s the height of recklessness. It’s the height of immaturity and that’s exactly why I say this guy ought not to even be a councillor. I’m serious. I raised funds from friends and associates to execute the 2019 campaign in Kwara state. These funds were raised for governorship, national assembly elections and presidential e. It’s on record that I received no penny from him to execute his own election.

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