Congratulations to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Governor of Kwara – Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies

A former female Presidential Candidate, from Kwara State, Bishop Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies congratulates Governor

AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, the Governor of Kwara State on his nomination as the new chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF). “You are celebrated and may the Almighty God continue to lead and guide you, more giant strides and more grace with best wishes,” she added.

Adesanya-Davies encourages the Governor to continue to forge ahead in his believe in equity, unity and progress of Nigeria in its diversity. She says, “the in-depth appreciation of the core issues of governance in Nigeria will make him a man to be watched as he leads his colleagues to lead the nation in the spirit of unity without any tribal or religious bias as the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu promises and plans to govern, without any fear or favour.”

While the state’s basic education, public water, state’s healthcare system were said to have all improved under his watch in Kwara state; while he has not only appointed the highest number of women to cabinet positions but has also gone ahead to make gender parity a state policy, as the first Governor to make such a policy in Nigeria, with his love for youth inclusion in government; Adesanya-Davies said, “it’s time for him to continue in the same spirit with the new national assignment. It’s a call to a patriotic duty aimed at preservation of the interest of the all.”

It’s true that, “Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is positioned to resolve many national questions — a duty especially thrust upon him by his antecedents as a federalist, resource control activist, and a pragmatic political figure who must now unite the fractured country. He will need the Governors who are themselves political leaders of their various states to push through such agenda for national acceptance as States wield many powers based on our constitution. He will be working with an NGF whose leadership is an ally who belongs to his party and actively worked for Tinubu’s emergence and shares his views and passion on many issues of national development.” We wish Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq the sound mind and humble spirit to achieve all these!

It is opined that the President-elect should be able to count on Governor AbdulRazaq, himself a smooth political operator, to mobilise his colleagues for a national consensus to tackle myriad of issues, including the challenges of insecurity, religious bias, electricity, youth bad economy, bulge and unemployment, expansion of the middle class, herders-farmers’ conundrum and food security, climate change and renewable energy, gender parity, etc,. May the Almighty God see him through, as he settles in to the new assignment, amen.

Samuel Nuhu Agwom
Media, PMACO