Deputy Senate Majority leader joins Kwara governorship race
Deputy Senate Majority leader, Oyelola Ashiru, yesterday joined Kwara State governorship race ahead of 2027 elections. He made the declaration in Ilorin, Kwara, the state capital. Ashiru wants to contest
- ‘President Tinubu has unlocked reforms’
Deputy Senate Majority leader, Oyelola Ashiru, yesterday joined Kwara State governorship race ahead of 2027 elections.
He made the declaration in Ilorin, Kwara, the state capital.
Ashiru wants to contest on the platform of All Progressives Congress in the state.
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Another Kwara State senator from the northern axis, Sadiq Umar last month signified his intention to run for governor also on APC platform.
Senator Ashiru, representing Kwara South, uunveiled his ‘Covenant with Kwara.’
The architect-turned politician added the covenant is “a blueprint for inclusive governance, shared prosperity and generational renewal.”
The deputy majority leader said the document contains seven pillars, adding “security is not a policy pillar in this document. It is the foundation on which other parts rest.”
“I am asking for the mandate to govern Kwara State from 2027 to 2031. Not manage it, not to preside over it. But to transform it -- systematically and with every Kwaran able to see, in real time, whether I am keeping my word, he said.
“The quality of your life-- the school your child attends, the clinic that serves your family, the road that connects your farm to a market, peace in your community and the dignity of your old age -- will determine priorities of this government, not the other way round.”
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He hailed President Bola Tinubu and Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for their transformative governance.
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“AbdulRazaq has transformed the infrastructure and fiscal discipline of this state in ways that give the next administration a genuinely different platform to work from.
“President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda has unlocked Federal Capital and constitutional reforms -- on electricity, railways, state policing - that create opportunities no previous Kwara governor has had,” he added.
On security, the senator said that “the harmony of the state is now under threat.’’
“Armed groups have entered our rural communities not to settle or trade but to terrorize-- burning farms, displacing families and breaking the agricultural rhythm that has sustained Kwara centuries.”
Earlier, Local Organizing Chair of the occasion Ben Duntoye said the APC administration at both the Federal and state levels had engendered good governance.
Sir Duntoye, a former information commissioner in the state, said that opposition had caved in for the APC at the centre and in the state.
