Governor f Kwara State Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has said that Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed isn’t influencial in his ward.
During the inauguration of a new state secretariat in July in Ilorin Lai Mohammed said the party entered ”one chance” by supporting Abdulrazaq’s candidacy.
The Minister also said that he raised a major part of funds for the 2019 elections in the state of which the APC won by a small margin.
Abdulrazaq commenting on this in an interview on THISDAY stated that Lai Mohammed did not fund his campaign because he did that himself as well as donations from friends.
He went on to accuse the governor of ‘hijacking’ the donation that was made for his campaign by friends.
“Everything that was donated, Lai Mohammed did not declare to the party, or to me. Some were direct donations to me,” he noted.
“Some were sent to Kwara APC but there’s no governor, no minister. He was sitting there in Abuja, he did not know how we held the election.
“He did not know how we campaigned. He was in Abuja. Ask Minister Lai Mohammed, how many times he comes to Kwara? Our two ministers don’t come to Kwara. They are in Abuja. Both of them. Lai goes to Lagos. That’s his home.
“That’s where his son is a member of the Lagos state house of assembly. That’s where his family is. He has no house here. He doesn’t come here. As our minister, he doesn’t come home. Same with Gbemi Saraki. She doesn’t come. So it’s like we don’t have a minister.
“That’s why the pressure is on the governor. In other states, you have ministers relieving that pressure. Everything coming to the state, they stay in Abuja and hijack it. They are running from one ministry to the other to try and hijack things from Abuja. In terms of resources, they just took everything.”