Kwara South leaders under the aegis of The Indigenous People of Offa have called on the state government to bring development to the area, alleging that they have been neglected and excluded from meaningful development under the administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.
They made this known in an open letter addressed to President Bola Tinubu and signed by Alhaji Adisa Abdulkareem, Ogala Compound, Offa, Kwara State on behalf of The Indigenous People of Offa.
It reads: “We write to bring to your kind attention, with utmost pain, the growing and persistent marginalization of our people in Southern Kwara, particularly Offa, under the leadership of the Executive Governor of Kwara State, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.
“Kwara State is made up of 16 local governments. The Southern part—comprising the Ibolo, Igbomina, and Ekiti-speaking Yorubas—is home to some of the most industrious, peace-loving and development-driven citizens in the state.
“Yet, in what we now perceive as a calculated pattern, we have been deliberately neglected and systemically excluded from meaningful development under this administration.
“Your Excellency, it is verifiable that since the inception of this administration in Kwara State, no single significant project has been executed in Southern Kwara. While Kwara Central boasts of monumental developments such as two overhead bridges, a state-of-the-art innovation hub, garment factory, and expansive road reconstruction projects, Southern Kwara has little or nothing to point at—despite being the very engine room of the historic #Otoge movement that birthed the current political order in the state.
It added: “Mr. President, we have been loyal. We have played our part. But this hatred, this discrimination, this deliberate abandonment has left us wounded beyond words. We are still rallying funds to secure the release of our kidnapped loved ones.
“We beg Your Excellency, as the father of the nation and the bearer of renewed hope, to help us ask Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq one question: Why does our pain mean nothing?
“We are not writing to create political rancor. We write as a people whose cries have gone unheard for too long. We want justice, fairness, and inclusion. We want to feel like citizens of Kwara, not strangers in our own land.”
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