There is a common consolation statement among Ilorin people when affirming a brighter future, they will say "Ojo Jimoh tio ba dara ati ojo Alamisi ni ao ti mo ( a Friday that will be good in a week,the good omen of it will be noticeable and it will be manifesting from Thursday before that particular Friday). Traditionally, we Ilorinans used to see ourselves as brothers and sisters and we relate as one and we don't treat ourselves like slaves until the coming of those who changed the system and values which the gullible ones who believed that without somebody they can't be anything when Allah is the maker and distributor of all things and give it whom he pleases and door of his benevolent is never closed. But the recent Osun experience where Osun oracle failed then and Port Harcourt ported them with 317 LRN back home will definitely make those who had not been seen beyond their noses knows that " aiye pe meji" that is the world has two sides.
Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq just emerged as gubernatorial candidate of APC in Kwara State and with his emergence the political equation in Kwara State is likely to change because of his antecedents and background as an astute businessman of no negative blemish and son of Alhaji AGF AbdulRazaq,SAN,Mutawallin Ilorin also a prominent politician in the first and second Republic in Nigeria. It will interest readers to know that the first individual efforts at human capital development in Kwara State was initiated by him when he established Ilorin College Ilorin now known as Government High School in 1967. The creation of Kwara State was championed by Alhaji AbdulRazaq in conjunction with other prominent Kwarans then like the Late Alhaji Yusuf Amuda Gobir,Late Alhaji AbdulAzeez Attah the duo then been Permanent Secretaries in Federal Service and host of others.
Kwara State was in steady growth from May 1967 when it was created with the Late Brigadier-General David Lasisi Bamigboye (then Lt. Col) as Military Governor of Kwara State who laid good foundation for future development of the Stare which was later boosted by the Late Gen George Innih of blessed memory most of their efforts then were legacy projects that we are seeing till now. Our State was developing gradually from one regime to the other until the coming of the locusts in 2003 till date who ravaged and still ravaging our dear State in an avid manner.
But with the recent development we are looking towards a brighter future when the nomenclature would have changed our State to a more prosperous one soon and locusts that had been ravaging would had been sent away from our dear State. Am welcoming you to Kwara State where no political leaders will treat followers like slaves.
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