Femi Afolabi
The Kwara South senatorial candidate of Social Democratic Party, Prof. Wale Sulaiman, CON has urged indigenes of the district based in Lagos to leverage the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) to travel to their hometowns and vote in the forthcoming elections.
Prof Sulaiman spoke in Lagos during an interactive session with representatives of over 25 Kwara South community associations and the Seven LGAs associations based in the South- West state.
He said ” the Electoral Act has strengthened democracy by giving the power to decide who represents them to the voters”.
‘I plead with you to support us in building the Kwara South of our dreams by traveling home to vote and influencing others at home to vote all SDP candidates in the forthcoming elections”.
Prof. Sulaiman noted that ” past representatives of Kwara South had not demonstrated the political will that promotes the interests of the people” , adding that ” the people who were expected to secure democracy dividends for the people of Kwara South had been mere stooges of godfathers.
For more than 23 years in the nation’s democracy, the people of Kwara South had elected representatives who obeyed the whims and caprices of their godfathers rather than being the voice of people.
We are tired of that manner of representation” The National Chairman of SDP, Shehu Gabam, represented by a national executive member of the Party, Tunde Babalola said “Kwara South district has more population than others, urging them to seize the opportunity to elect Prof. Sulaiman whose vision is to entrench sustainable developmental politics”.
A chieftain of the Party, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo noted that” the SDP collaborated with the APC to form Otooge movement to enhance good governance, but we pulled out because they were not fulfilling the promises we made to people”, urging Kwarans in Lagos and other communities in the South- West state to come home and vote for quality candidates of the SDP.
The event was attended by all the Party candidates in Kwara State.
