Belgore, Kwara disagree over govt performance

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  The 2011 governorship candidate for the Action Congress of Nigeria in Kwara State, Mr. Dele Belgore (SAN), on Monday, said the state government had failed the people.
  
  Belgore said the Abdulfatah Ahmed-led Peoples Democratic Party government had not provided the dividends of democracy to the people, especially in the provision of infrastructure.
  
  Reacting to a claim that 2,500 ACN supporters had defected to the PDP, the SAN, who spoke through his media aide, Rafiu Ajakaiye, in a statement, said the report was untrue.
  
  According to him, it is a show of shame and admission of failure by PDP and its government that 2,500 ACN members defected because ‘‘he failed to give them employment.’’
  
  He said while not conceding to the defection story and job denial claim of the purported defectors, it was the constitutional duty of the government to provide jobs for the people.
  
  “The truth of the matter is that thePDP-led government in Kwara State has failed miserably and it continues to exhibit its failure and incompetence in embarrassing ways and this is one of such ways.
  
  “Beyond the usual window-dressingsand MoU signings with bogus entities like so-called Vasolar Consortium about which nothing verifiable exists other than media publications from the MoU signing ceremony with KWSG, it has no meaningful achievement on record to date.”
  
  But the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Communication, Dr. Muyideen  Akorede, disagreed with the claim, saying the government had provided numerous infrastructure and human capital development for the people.
  
  Akorede said Belgore needed to come up with viable alternatives to government policy rather than indulge in “a vain attempt to down play the achievement of the Ahmed administration”.
  
  Noting that the state government had been impacting the lives of the  people, he listed Ahmed’s  achievements to include rural/urban road construction and rehabilitation; supply of laboratory equipment to schools;  rehabilitation   of  basic and senior secondary school classrooms; among many other accomplishments.