When Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki gave his support to Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed to succeed him, he had a clear vision of where he wanted the state to be.
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Ex-Governor Ahmed’s condolence message was contained in a statement released by his Media Office on Tuesday.
The Forum, led by Comrade Abdullahi Lade, met with a former Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Friday.
Contract for the reconstruction of the bridge, which has become a death trap, was earlier in 2016 awarded by the Kwara State Government
Saraki gave the charge on Saturday when he spoke after the election of new State Executive Council members.
AMCON added that it had traced nine other properties belonging to the ex-governor in Kwara, Lagos and Abuja some of which include: houses at 13, Alhaji Masha Road, Surulere; No. 9 Wharf, Apapa, Lagos; Plot 3632, Cadastral Zone E27 of Apo, Abuja; Plot 4115, Cadastral Zone F14 of Bazango, Abuja; Plot 8502, Cadastral Zone E31 of Carraway Dallas, Abuja; and Plot 494, Cadastral Zone E31 of Carraway Dallas, Abuja
Chairman of the White Paper Panel on the unlawful sales of government’s properties from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2019 Barrister Hussein Buhari, said during the submission of the report that findings in the report were mind boggling and said nothing short of diligent prosecution, possible jail terms and recovery of many of the properties can avenge the “official connivances” that led to the pilferage of the assets.
On his Twitter handle, @abdulfatahAhmed, on Tuesday, the former governor said “In response to an invitation by the commission via a letter dated 26th April 2021, I voluntarily visited the EFCC in Abuja yesterday with regard to a complaint about a contract awarded by Kwara State government while I was the state’s Commissioner for Finance.
Sources stated that the former governor has been under interrogation for the past seven hours at the EFCC headquarters in Jabi, Abuja, over alleged diversion of N9 billion by his administration.
Saraki, in the video, addressed some people in Offa, mainly religious leaders, after a meeting with the Olofa of Offa, Oba Mufutau Muhammed Oloyede Gbadamosi, Okikiola Esuwoye II
Alhaji Ahmed in a Twitter message on Tuesday offered his sympathies to the governor and people of Kaduna State following the loss of the 18th Emir of Zazzau, who passed last Sunday.
In his condolence following Khalifa Kamaldeen’s passage on Friday, Alhaji Ahmed urged the Kamaldeen family and the Adabiyya Islamic movement to take solace in the fact that the departed scion was an exemplary man who upheld the legacy of his late father, Sheikh Mohammed Kamaldeen, in Islamic and Quranic education.
he N3.9 billion electrification project was awarded in 2015 by Ahmed to provide illumination on some major streets in llorin metropolis and other parts of the state
For some time now, I have consciously resisted the temptation to join opaque debates seeking to pin the misfortune of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election on former Kwara State Governor Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed’s alleged non-performance. The skewed, anecdotal analyses are driven by ruling party stalwarts and, unfortunately, by members of the PDP who possibly have personal issues with the former governor.
Former Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, says the Olofa of Offa, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi Okikiola Esuwoye II, is a staunch man of the people and a peacemaker who is as focused on uplifting his people as he is on elevating Offa community.
Former Commissioner for Health in Kwara State, Suleiman Alege, has recanted his earlier claim that the Abdulfatah Ahmed administration left three ventilators in the state, a few hours after the state government challenged him to provide proof or be dragged to the anti-graft agency to produce the facility.
The ex-Governor raised the alarm in a statement on Saturday
The Kwara State Government says it will revoke over 5,000 plots of land sold illegally by the immediate past administration headed by AbdulFatah Ahmed.
Ahmed’s clarification followed claims that the former administration owed College of Education lecturers seven months’ salary arrears.
The group, in a statement on Wednesday, said the protests are to be staged across the entire state and allegedly coordinated by one Chief Tunde.