Kwara 2027: Why we formed KRM – Mustapha, Oyedepo, Aro

 

 

Some key figures of the 1919 Otoge struggle that produced the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) government in Kwara state on Thursday gathered in Ilorin for the inauguration of an alternative platform called Kwara Redemption Movement (KRM) ahead of the 2027 general elections. 

Those present at the inauguration of the movement included a former member of House of representatives, Hon Moshood Mustapha, a chieftain of the APC, Hon  Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, former Chairman, immediate past publicity secretary of the APC, Folaranmi Aro, a former Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, Alhaji Aliyu Mohammed Lade, amongst others. 

Speaking in Ilorin at the inauguration of the executive members and  co-ordinators that would drive the movement at the 16 local government areas of the state, Chairman of the forum, Chief Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, said the movement was out to check a system that produced a government in Kwara state but has not met the expectations of the proponents of the struggle.

“You have the right to be angry but don’t be angry with the people in government but the system that produced them and that is the essence of this platform because if we don’t attack the system that produced them, we will continue to have wrong persons”.

He said KRM would register only quality members who were people of ‘integrity, character, knowledge” and most importantly “people that will be able to hold their stomach until food is ready”.  

Also speaking, Mustapha on his part said the movement was not “a political party for anyone to realise his or her ambition but a formidable platform for  negotiations to change the way politics is being done in Kwara”.

He regretted that the Otege struggle of 1999 came with victory for proponents of the struggle but the victory, according to him, has been “without success” adding that the “major beneficiary of the struggle has not met the expectations of the masses”.  

The APC chieftain said the movement had nothing against the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the ruling APC.

“We are not against the president of Nigeria, we are not against pur traditional rulers, we have respect for them but things are not going the ways they should and we must change the status quo’, he declared.