Lagos — Kwara State government has described former Governor Mohammed Lawal as a "stranded and frustrated politician, leading a coalition of fellow frustrated politicians."

Reacting to Lawal's last week comment on Governor Bukola Saraki's administration, Commissioner of Information and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abdulraheem Adedoyin, said the former governor should be pitied.

"We should just pity the man, his frustration is all too evident. Politically, he is stranded, as he has no platform to operate. Psychologically, he is unstable, because everyone now knows he was an under-achiever as governor," Adedoyin said, adding that "Lawal's certification of his All-Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) as being dead and buried was painfully true but ironic. In Kwara State, ANPP had been dead since Lawal lost the 2003 elections. All his aides have joined us in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he is on his own, he is lonely. He killed ANPP in Kwara State and ironically, ANPP's death has resulted in his own political death."

Adedoyin said Lawal's membership of the newly registered Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) was exaggerated. " DPP is a non-starter in Kwara State. In any case, Lawal's membership of DPP is more of a personal aide of Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa. Since he lost the 2003 election, Lawal has taken refuge in Sokoto State, and has become an errand boy of his former colleague." He said Lawal's claim that the Saraki administration was not performing would soon be exposed as hollow, when President Olusegun Obasanjo visits the state next week.

"We invite him to come for the President's visit. When Obasanjo visited Kwara during Lawal's reign, there was nothing to commission outside over-inflated road projects in Ilorin. But come next week, he will criss-cross the three senatorial districts commissioning people-oriented projects executed by the Saraki administration," Adedoyin said. Adedoyin said Saraki's administration is not bothered by Lawal's threat to confront Saraki in Kwara State with a coalition of political groups.

"We are not threatened by any political conspiracy hatched by Lawal. His coalition of frustrated politicians can't get any where in Kwara.

He knows it himself. Someone who, as a sitting governor lost election in his ward, which serious politician can he rally round now against a performing government? He is only day-dreaming," Adedoyin said.