The wazirin Kasar Hausa, Yakubu Gobir has picked the Kwara state governorship ticket of the Young People’s Party (YPP)
to contest in the 2023 general elections.
Speaking at a press conference in Ilorin at the party’s secretariat, Waziri Yakubu Gobir decried the current situation of affairs in the state. He said: “for too long, our beloved State, like most of Nigeria, has wallowed in abject penury and insecurity, whilst a very few corners the commonwealth and holds the rest hostage.
“From N100m nomination forms to delegates who pay allegiance to the fattest wads of hundreds of dollars, politics has become a criminal enterprise, where only the most corrupt thrive.”
Waziri Yakubu Gobir charged the people of Kwara State, especifically the youth, to rise up as leaders of today and not tomorrow “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 ‘O to ge’ movement which you successfully led in 2019 was an eye-opener for many Kwarans, but what happened to you afterwards?”
“Kwara State has never been more divided than it is at this very moment, ethno-political conflict, social decay and squandered resources have widened the gap between the haves and have-nots, fuelling resentment and a glaring economic divide,” Gobir added.
Meanwhile Dele Ogunbiyi, the State Chairman of the party has described the entry of Waziri Gobir’s into the race and his declaration for YPP as a big plus for the party.
