Personality, not party’ll shape 2027 polls – Prof Ahmad

By Demola Akinyemi, Ilorin

Professor Ali Ahmad is simply a prof of Law and Legislative Studies astatine the University of Abuja and erstwhile Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, and erstwhile subordinate House of Representatives. In an interrogation with Vanguard successful Ilorin, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain spoke connected issues that volition signifier the 2027 polls astatine the centre and successful Kwara among others.

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On State of affairs successful the 

PDP We are inactive successful PDP. We are not readying to permission PDP. We are inactive uncovering aspirations wrong the main party, truthful PDP is one. PDP mightiness person its situation rising and cooling down, but present you tin spot PDP is rising. We’re going to person a normal successful Ibadan, hopefully, and we’ll determination on. .

But are you not disquieted that governors dumped PDP?

Governors don’t marque parties. Parties marque them. So, radical marque parties, and that’s wherever immoderate radical get it wrong.

On wherefore successful 2019, 2023 wide elections successful Kwara State your enactment refused to spell to tribunal contempt claims successful definite quarters that determination was rigging

In 2019, you radical (journalists) knew what happened, but for 2023, you can’t accidental that we didn’t spell to court. I heard that idiosyncratic spoke to you and said that 1 of the reasons they were leaving PDP was due to the fact that aft the section authorities elections, we didn’t spell to court. That’s factually incorrect. During the superior elections, the enactment gave the guidelines to everybody: ‘Go home; if you privation to beryllium a councillor spell to the grassroots. If you privation to beryllium section authorities chairman, spell there.’ And that’s what happened, cipher dictated from anywhere, everybody drove the strategy from the bottom.

So, since it was the radical that chose and we defeated APC each done but past they announced what they announced successful Government House, which everybody knew. We went to court.

For example, successful my section government, I went to the collation centre, I went determination without security. We saw that the collation officers locked themselves successful the room. About a 1000 people, you saw the video, wanted to conscionable propulsion successful and one said, ‘look, if thing happens present they volition impeach me.’ I knew what they wanted to do. If I had gone forward, it would person been a mob action.

So, I told them to stop, what they could bash was to alteration the results which they did but they didn’t adjacent person the courageousness to denote it astatine the collation centre due to the fact that they knew the radical would react. They had to spell to the Government House.

So, I went to tribunal and this wasn’t a determination of the party, it was the decisions of section authorities stakeholders. In my section government, we went to court, one adjacent went to tribunal personally.

A mates of section governments went to court. We went to tribunal and immoderate others went to court. So, if you didn’t spell and you are waiting for 1 Saraki determination to telephone you past there’s thing wrong. You are present saying due to the fact that PDP didn’t spell to tribunal that’s wherefore I’m leaving, that’s not true.

On Senator Bukola Saraki’s alleged romance with the APC

There are lies and determination are fantastic lies. This is 1 of the fantastic lies that the African Democratic Congress, ADC, radical and different elements are brandishing around, it doesn’t marque sense. ADC telephone themselves a coalition. ADC is not a coalition. Parties travel for coalition, not individuals. So these radical jumped the gun.

At the clip ADC was re-branded, everybody was yearning for a coalition. But you see, they went excessively accelerated and miscalculated.

Instead of waiting for PDP oregon seeking confederation with PDP, APC, NNPP, they conscionable pulled retired and went into ADC and called it a coalition. But ADC is conscionable different party, it came to Kwara to accidental that Saraki was moving with APC.

How is that possible? If that was true, wherefore has Saraki spent his time, and vigor to pb the propulsion successful bri...