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Kwara UPP calls for patience with Gov Abdulrazaq’s administration

The Kwara State chairman of the United Progressives Party (UPP), Hon
David Abu Ifabiyi has called on Kwarans to give more time to the All
Progressives Congress (APC) administration in the State.
He also said the government is still young and need time to settle
down to achieve its objectives and meet the peoples aspiration in the
state even as he advised the National Assembly to tarry a while over
its planned moved to reduce political parties across the country from
the present ninety-one to just five.
The NASS leadership under Ahmed Lawan said the decision will help to
further strengthen the electoral process and allows INEC to deregister
any political party that fail to win any seats during election.
But according to Ifabiyi while speaking on the issue with Pilot
Politics, such move may not augur well with most political parties.
“Generally all over the world, there are always rooms for more
political parties and Nigerian should not be an exception. Most party
chairmen in Kwara State have been discussing over the issue. What NASS
is proposing may not augur well with political parties and I will
strongly advise they tarry a while before taking any action on the
issue”, he noted.
He said UPP will field candidates for the Kogi and Bayelsa elections
slated for November 16, adding that that party has been strategising
for the improvement of his political fortunes in the state.
“We are not keeping quit, although our activities may be low in Kwara.
But whoever has been following events will know that our national
chairman has always been in the news criticizing the ruling government
constructively, same with our state chairmen across the country who
have been responding to political developments in their domain.
“UPP is fielding candidates for the November 16 governorship elections
in Kogi and Bayelsa states and we are making efforts to field
candidates in the forthcoming IPAC election in Kwara State. We hope to
roll out some programmes to let the masses know that UPP is still very
much on ground in the state and waxing stronger”.
On the political situation in Kwara State, Ifabiyi said “UPP contested
and fielded candidates for the last governorship election but lost.
Since then, I have been telling people that this government is a new
one and we need to give them time to settle down for them to achieve.
At the same time, they need our collective support and prayers. Kwara
belong to all of us, if they succeed, we all succeed together”, he
submitted.
He said resent political situation in the state “will not necessarily
affect the council election next year. We have retraced our steps and
saw where we went wrong in the past.  It will be a different ball game
this time around and we shall field candidates because UPP is very
much on ground”, he added.

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