Kwara PDP gubernatorial candidate Engr Kale Kawu has been observed to have quietly renamed his manifesto during the public presentation on Thursday.
Previous statements by Kawu and Director General of the PDP campaign council Prince Omar Bolaji Gobir announced to Kwarans that the manifesto was named ‘My Covenant with Kwara.’
The announcement elicited a fierce response from a pro-democracy group, Kwara Rebuilders, alleging that it was a “copy-and-paste format” of the one earlier presented by APC guber Candidate in Lagos, Femi Hamzat. The group went further to say that Kawu’s manifesto was largely AI-generated.
In his two-part response to Kwara Rebuilders, Kawu denied all allegations, saying that only the use of words “Promise” and “Covenant” was similar. In fact, he said that the word ‘Covenant’ is higher and stronger in showing his commitment to service to the people of the state.
However, this medium has observed that the document presented by Kawu on Thursday was no longer named my ‘Covenant with Kwara,’ instead it was called ‘SBK Compact: Kwara People First.’
This has been observed to be a tactical cover up by Kawu’s team after they were exposed.
This u-turn has not gone unnoticed by members of the public, some expressing concerns for Kawu’s competence to lead Kwara.
One other things that have elicited strong attention was the fact that he could barely show a firm grasp of the content of the manifesto during the presentation. Kawu struggled to read a prepared speech and didn’t make himself available to the press on the content after the program.
This web of unoriginality, vibrancy, and lack of preparedness for governorship seat, are being pointed as *red flags*, with many suggesting that the manifesto could not be trusted.
Fingers have also being pointed at how he barely speaks at public functions, leaving his godfather Bukola Saraki to do all the talking.
Unlike Kawu, APC guber candidate Rt.Hon. Salihu Yakubu Danladi has been appearing and fielding questions from journalists in various platforms. A recent poll by NorthStar Research noted that 63% of registered voters have decided to cast their votes for Danladi in the forthcoming 2027 polls.
Danladi’s boldness and public engagements appeared to be connecting better with the electorates and he might well defeat Kawu with wider votes than earlier imagined by February.