Former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Kawu Baraje said the people of Kwara State especially the Ilorin indigenes would resist the attempt to move out of the current northern arrangement to be ceded as a Western state in the coming elections.

Baraje noted that Ilorin is not going to the West.

He said this while reacting to the adoption of a campaign slogan, Otoge (which literally means enough is enough in Yoruba dialect) Baraje maintained that the state will not surrender to a one-man rule in the South-West, saying the slogan cannot win an election.

The PDP chieftain recalled that there had been such attempt to hijack Kwara from the North in 1954 and the conspiracy failed.

According to him, those behind the present move were few “disgruntled and misguided” individuals who have no people behind them.

He is confident that the PDP would coast to victory in the 2019 election, saying the people are behind the leadership of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.

He said, “What wins election are the voters and electorate themselves. As far we are concerned, it is not strange to us and it is not strange to any community particularly Ilorin.

In 1954, there was a similar attempt to cede Ilorin to the western and the southern part of Nigeria and the parlance that time was that awa Olo West (we are going to the west) and there was opposite parlance of Awa olo West(we are not going to the West).

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