Abuja — Second Republic Senate Leader, Dr. Olusola Saraki, yesterday said the outgoing governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Mohammed Lawal, was defeated at the April 19 governorship polls because" he achieved nothing" during his four-year term.

Saraki, who stated this during a visit to the State House, Abuja where he met with Vice President Atiku Abubakar said as far as Kwarans are concerned, the governor did not meet his convenient with the people.

"So far as we are concerned, governor Lawal achieved nothing .Go to the villages and see for yourself. He achieved nothing during the past four years" he said.

He, however, said that with the emergence of his son as the governor of the state on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), peace and good governance was bound to return to the state.

"As far as the people of Kwara are concerned and as far as I am concerned, the state has not been lucky to have good administration since the past twenty-five years.

"Since April 19, 2003, we now have rest of mind. There is peace no more shooting, no more killing of People. As you know we lost five people," Saraki said.