In Ilorin on Wednesday, Waziri Yakubu Gobir declared his intention to run for governor of Kwara State in the 2023 general elections.
On the platform of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), he is running for governor.
“For far too long, our beloved State, like most of Nigeria, has wallowed in abject poverty and insecurity, while a few corners of the commonwealth hold the rest hostage,” Yakubu Gobir said at a press conference held at the party’s secretariat in Ilorin.
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“From N100 million nomination forms to delegates who pledge allegiance to the fattest wads of hundreds of dollars, politics has devolved into a criminal enterprise, thriving only among the most corrupt.”
Gobir described the scenario as a grand plan to exclude the most honest and capable people from participating in the country’s governance, perpetuating kleptocracy.
“As you have been misled for so long, because the current leaders do not rate you so, except when paying lip service or using you as agents of destruction,” the YPP candidate charged the people of Kwara State, particularly the youth, to rise up as leaders of today and not tomorrow.
“The ‘O to ge’ movement that you successfully led in 2019 was a wake-up call for many Kwarans, but what happened to you after that?”
“Ethno-political conflict, social decay, and squandered resources have widened the gap between the haves and have-nots, fueling resentment and a glaring economic divide,” Gobir continued.
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He urged party members and youths to get their PVCs within the next 30 days in preparation for the upcoming battle.
Gobir’s declaration, according to Dele Ogunbiyi, the party’s State Chairman, is a big plus for the party.