Nigeria: Kwara's Possibilities of Continuity

22 July 2014
opinion

By stabilising the polity and taking the development of the state a notch up, the Kwara State Governor, Abdul-Fatah Ahmed is an example of functional continuity in governance, writes Akinbami Faloye.

He's unassuming but his strength lies more in his quiet demeanor. A man of few words, the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdul-Fatah Ahmed backs up his words with constructive actions. Calculated and forward-looking, Ahmed's steely and dimensional reasoning complements his ability to step into the shoes of his predecessor and political leader of the state, Bukola Saraki, who is largely seen as the father of modern Kwara, thus placing emphasis on continuity as conceived by Saraki.

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