Kwara State is under siege, the emperor is out for vendetta.
From Kwara South to Kwara North, kidnappings have become routine, killings are rising, families are fleeing their homes, and entire communities are being wiped out. The people are living in fear, abandoned to their fate.
Yet, instead of confronting this crisis head-on, the administration of Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq appears fixated on political vendettas and score-settling.
At a time when lives are being lost daily, governance has taken a back seat to ego and bitterness.
Each time public frustration grows, and elections are near, a familiar tactic emerges: shift attention, manufacture distractions, and attempt to smear opposition figures, particularly Abubakar Bukola Saraki. This is not leadership; it is deflection.
You cannot claim there is “no opposition” in Kwara and at the same time behave as though you are constantly under threat from it. That contradiction exposes a deeper truth: insecurity is being ignored while politics is being weaponized.
The Offa Mega Rally held last week has rattled the Kwara Emperor into looking for a means to unsettle the Opposition Leadership in Kwara. Unfortunately, his usual bait of reminding the grieving Offa Armed Robbery incident has backfired this time around.
Even within the ruling party, the cracks are no longer hidden. Discontent is growing ruthlessly against him and Confidence in this leadership is eroding.
Let it be said clearly:
A government that cannot protect its people has failed its most basic duty.
Scores of people have been kidnapped in the last 48hours in different communities in Kwara, not sparing traditional rulers, the Governor do not even show any interest and where he does, it is always reactionary instead of taking preventive measures.
Governance to him must always be cosmetic and brutal towards his political allies to show dominance.
Kwara does not need propaganda. It does not need political witch-hunts. It does not need a government obsessed with controlling narratives while citizens are being buried.
It needs leadership. It needs urgency. It needs action.
History will not remember excuses. It will remember who acted and who chose politics over people.
The people of Kwara are watching. And they will not forget an Emperor who ruled Government like the renowned Basorun Gaa of the ancient years.
Amofin Titilope Akogun
President, BTA Foundation