Kwara Opposition Seeks Another Chance as APC Points to Its Record

The opposition is asking Kwarans for another chance. That is their right in a democracy. But beyond campaign slogans and political explanations, the question remains: another chance to do what?

For many people in Kwara, the answer lies less in speeches than in daily experience. The Kwara State Water Corporation, once associated with protests and locked offices, now receives its subventions and operational allocations consistently, according to the article. The institution has shifted from struggling for survival to focusing on service delivery.

The same change, the article argues, can be seen across the public service. Salaries, pensions, gratuities and promotions once came with uncertainty. Under the AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq administration, regular salary payments have become the norm, while inherited arrears owed to local government workers, SUBEB teachers and pensioners have been addressed.

More than ₦5.5 billion went toward those inherited obligations between 2020 and 2024. The administration also began turning paper promotions into financial benefits across the state civil service, local governments and SUBEB. In 2025, more than 2,000 state civil servants received promotion letters after the 2023 promotion exercise was completed.

Health workers are another part of the article’s case for the administration. It says Kwara implemented revised CONMESS and CONHESS salary structures in line with federal government levels, while 100 percent CONHESS for local government health workers took effect in January 2024. The article attributes public confirmation of that measure to state NLC Chairman Comrade Saheed Olayinka. It also says the government has continued paying inherited gratuity and pension liabilities, though the supplied text ends before that section is completed.