Pro-democracy group, Kwara Rebuilders, has rebuked PDP guber candidate, Engr. Kale Kawu, for his inability to personally defend his manifesto and instead choosing to read a prepared speech word for word — and even committing serious errors in doing so.
Kwara Rebuilders posited that Kawu caused serious embarrassment for the whole of Kwara State with his inefficiency, noting he shouldn’t have thought of copying Dr. Obafemi Hamzat of Lagos State when he can’t match his intellectual sophistication and capacity.
“We all saw how Dr. Hamzat displayed extraordinary courage, clarity and erudition when he unveiled his manifesto. He spoke largely from heart and did excellently well unlike Kawu who was reading a prepared speech and messed up greatly with his lack of coherence,” the group said at the weekend in a statement by its Kwara Central Media Officer, AbdulQuadri AbdulKabeer.
“Kwara is known from time immemorial as a state of great intellectuals. No one told Kale Kawu to compete with Obafemi Hamzat. The way they handled the unveiling and presentation of the manifesto was an embarrassment not only to himself but also to the state. His strategists should take note of this. Enough of this embarrassment to our state.”
The group challenged Kawu to a press engagement on his manifesto if he is truly sure of owning or having a firm grasp of the content of his manifesto.
“Anyone can throw figures around. Anyone can build a castle in the air with his mouth. But it is important that this calibre of people are challenged to defend their claims and speak independently to their purported ideas. We are urging Mr. Kale Kawu to stop running away from media engagements and quit depending on Senator Bukola Saraki to face the media for him. It shows lack of capacity and leadership credentials,” Kwara Rebuilders noted.
The group said it took cognisance of the laughable u-turn of Kawu and his strategists in renaming their manifesto after no argument could sufficiently help their position that they didn’t copy Obafemi Hamzat’s The Lagos Promise for Kawu’s My Covenant with Kwara.
Kwara Rebuilders meanwhile commended APC candidate Rt. Hon. Salihu Yakubu Danladi for his continuous engagement of the media on ideas, policy direction, achievements, and records of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led administration.
“Danladi has appeared on BBC. He faced the correspondent chapel recently. He was also on state-owned Kwara TV to deepen engagement with the media and public on his records and intentions for the state.
“The same cannot be said of Kale Kawu. Instead of using the presentation of his AI-generated manifesto to address Kwarans directly, he declined an interview with the press, after reading word to word amid embarrassing schoolboy mistakes. In a bid to spare his blushes, PDP have now commissioned some party chieftains and influencers to be jumping from one media house to another to promote it. Where is the guber candidate? Kwarans are taking note appropriately, and the right choice will be made.”
Kwara Rebuilders said no amount of private home lessons and coaching will prevent the unravelling of Kale Kawu as a candidate who lacks leadership capacity and sophistication.
