Browsing: Abdulfatah Ahmed

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.

Abdulrazaq said this on Monday when he spoke with State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari

In his new year message, Ahmed thanked Allah for making it possible for Kwarans to witness a New Year and decade and prayed for peace and unity, which he said are the bedrocks for sustainable progress.

AbdulRazaq said at a maiden breakfast meeting with journalists in Kwara State that the focus of his administration centres around human capital and infrastructural development, which would attract investments, combat poverty and take Kwara to the top of the table of revenue generation and competitiveness.

Both men are classmates of the immediate past Governor of the state, AbdulFatah Ahmed.

Adebowale was arrested alongside two staff of the state television authority located in Apata Yakuba Area of Ilorin, the State Capital, and a senior official of Kwara State Bureau of Land. 

The immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has commiserated with the Olatinwo Family of Offa following the death of Dr. Muftau Olatinwo, former Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Offa.