By any honest measure, the present administration in Kwara State has failed the people it claims to serve.
Seven years in power, and what do we have to show for it? Roads that have become death traps. Schools without teachers or roofs. Hospitals that are mere consulting clinics. Water that does not run. Youths roaming the streets without jobs, while government officials ride in convoys of brand new SUVs.
This is not governance. This is grand deception.
The current administration came on the mantra of “change” and “Otoge”, but it has only changed the pockets of a few and left the masses in deeper poverty. Allocations have increased, internally generated revenue has increased, yet the life of the ordinary Kwaran has not improved. Where is the money going? Into white-elephant projects, inflated contracts, and endless propaganda.
They build a garment factory that does not employ our youths. They build an international conference centre while our primary health centres collapse. They commission visual projects in Ilorin while Kwara South and Kwara North are abandoned to bandits, bad roads, and darkness.
A government that cannot pay attention to the cries of farmers whose produce rots because of bad roads, that cannot secure lives and property, that cannot provide clean water in the 21st century, has no moral right to ask for another term.
This is why the Kale Kawu’s ideas matter.
Kale Kawu represents a return to people-centred governance. His vision is simple: take power from the corridors of Government House and return it to the wards, to the villages, to the real people. Dividends of democracy should not be press statements and photo opportunities. They should be felt in the price of food, in the quality of our schools, in the access to healthcare, in the safety of our roads, in the dignity of labour.
Kwara needs a leadership that listens, not one that lectures. Kwara needs a leadership that builds people, not just structures for the camera. Kwara needs a leadership that understands that Ilorin is not Kwara, and Kwara is not Ilorin.
The present administration has had its chance and wasted it. It is time to sweep away this era of arrogance, waste, and audio achievements.
Kwarans deserve better. And with the Kale Kawu’s ideas, better is possible.