Nigeria: No Second Term for Kwara Governor, Says PDP

Kwara State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has declared that the incumbent governor of the state, Ahmed Abdulfatah, won't be re-elected in 2015 because of what the party perceived as his failure in office.

Speaking with Saturday Independent during an exclusive interview, the chairman of the party, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, rubbished the endorsement of the governor, who recently declared his intension to seek re-election as the consensus candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), saying; "His endorsement by his leader, Bukola Saraki, was just a mere autocratic and selfish pronouncement which the people of Kwara State will reject at the poll in 2015.

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