Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has been charged with betrayal by Senator Makanjuola Ajadi.
According to reports, the All Progressives Congress (APC)-run Kwara State Government has filed a lawsuit to block Ajadi’s bid for the Kwara South Senatorial District.
The lawsuit, which is personally signed by Malam Sambo Muritala, the Governor’s Special Legal Adviser, will be heard on July 26, 2022.
The lawsuit, among other reasons, forbids Ajadi, who left the APC, from running for office in 2023 under the banner of the African Democratic Congress, or ADC.
Former Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on National Assembly Matters Ajadi had a falling out with the state administration after what he claimed was a fraudulent APC Kwara South Senatorial primary poll recently held in the state’s Idofian, Ifelodun Local Government Area.
Later, he left the party for the ADC, where he won the nomination to run for the Kwara South senatorial seat.
Reacting to the suit, Ajadi said “it is laughable, we will meet in court if I am qualified to contest under another party or not.”
He condemned the APC Senatorial primary election, describing it as a fraudulent process in which he could not identify the delegates elected for the exercise.
Ajadi alleged that Abdulrazaq betrayed him because, “I consulted and confided in him before taking the shot at the Senatorial primary election, but the process was fraudulent.
“I complained to Governor Abdulrazaq and even suggested a clear and acceptable process which will be fair and free to all contestants but fell on deaf ears.
” I will fight the battle on the platform of the ADC for my people” he declared, adding that ” if my people in Kwara South Senatorial District cannot get the dividends of democracy, why must I sink or swim with a party called APC?”
