Kwara Leaks

A former candidate of the defunct  Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) in the 2011 governorship election in Kwara State, Mr. Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN), Sunday appealed to his supporters not to entertain fears following  the recent defection of the former governor of the state, Senator Bukola Saraki  and his supporters to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Saraki, along with five of the seven aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Mohammed Dele Belgore, yesterday asked his supporters to remain calm over the defection of former Governor Bukola Saraki and his supporters into the party. Belgore however said his supporters were “completely disenchanted” with the decision of the APC national leadership to accept the new members without the input of the state chapter.Saraki and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed were among new Peoples...

These are interesting times, aren’t they? In Kwara, if you think it rains, sorry, it pours! Kwara state is witnessing her most turbulent years in decades that it had existed. Never in its history had its politics been as much combustive as it is unpredictable. That’s why I am amazed that individuals that should ordinarily add colour and life into the already explosive situation are yet to rear their heads. What we have been used to, like barber’s...

When the airwaves and the dailies were all awashed with the insider reports of how Sen. Gbemisola Saraki and her two other siblings, Laolu and Tope, ‘shunned’ the first anniversary memorial prayer for their late father and strongman of Ilorin, Dr. Olusola Saraki, I really didn’t count it as anything spectacular. ‘So what?’ was my first response to the news. And honestly, I don’t give a farting hoot about who attended what! But wait a minute, there...

A Car damaged by hoodlums Kwaraleaks can report that the family house of Balogun Gambari is currently boiling with cars and properties worth thousands of Naira already destroyed. Kwaraleaks reliably learnt that there is a bitter disagreement over the situation of a water-head tank donated to the family by Hon. Ahmad Ali, member representing the Ilorin East and South Federal constituency in the National Assembly. Already, a detachment of the Police...

UPDATE: Mr. Dele Belgore has just confirmed our earlier report that he would be in Ilorin tomorrow Sunday to address his party members and supporters. On his Facebook page, which was updated some few, minutes ago reads:  God willing, I shall be at our party secretariat at Asa Dam Road, Ilorin by 10am tomorrow (December 1, 2013) to address our supporters on the new developments in the political environment. Hope...

As EXCLUSIVELY reported yesterday by Kwaraleaks, Mr. Ishola Balogun Fulani, the elsewhere Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State late yesterday took to the press and formally apologized to the leadership of the APC in Kwara state for claiming that there was no APC structure in the state. Kwaraleaks had reported yesterday that the delicate relationship between the existing members of the APC in the state and the break-away...