PDP Will Bounce Back – Saraki

Scores of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youths in Kwara State have staged a peaceful rally

in Ilorin, the state capital, to protest against the unfulfilled promises of the All Progressives

Congress (APC) administration led by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.

They said the APC-led administration deceived the people with promises of better governance

with its campaign dubbed ‘Otoge’ before the last general election in 2019.

Addressing the youth in Ilorin, former Senate President Bukola Saraki, described the event as a

spontaneous reaction to what the youths have been through at the hands of the ruling party at

the state and national levels.

He said: “A lot of them were given the wrong impression and unkept promises and they have

seen that it’s time to go back to a government that will support and care for them. We have said

the APC has nothing to offer the youths and Nigerians and that is what is being reiterated here

today.”

Saraki said this is the time to rescue Nigeria and set it in the right direction. He added that the

PDP has demonstrated the energy and enthusiasm to take over governance at both the state

and the national levels.

He added: “These are ordinary people on the street saying “O su wa” (we are tied). And why

would they not be when you look at the cost of a bag of rice and garri, the issue of insecurity

and all other negative indices plaguing the country? The story is the same.

“But the people want a greener pasture and different direction in this country which only the

PDP can offer.”

One of the youth leaders, Otukoko Olayinka, said that advocates of the ‘Otoge’ struggles have

not lived up to expectations against their promises in 2019. He said: “The then advocates of

Otoge struggle promised the people of Kwara a lot in 2019. They’ve not lived up to one-quarter

of it. So, the Kwara youth from PDP came together with the slogan, ‘o su wa’ (we are tired).

What this means in essence is that prices of food items and fuel have gone unbearably too high

since the emergence of the APC government. Insecurity is the order of the day. People are

groaning. Kwarans have not enjoyed the dividends of democracy as promised by the crusaders

of Otoge in 2019.

He added: “We are saying we cannot continue this way. The past PDP government in power

had shown competence and good governance. We have seen that the APC had not been able

to give what it promised the people in the state. Kwara people, represented by the youth

constituency, are saying enough is enough for the APC government. Come 2023, we want to bid

the present government bye and usher in competent, capable leaders in those that have done it

in the past and that can still do it again.”