Yesterday afternoon, August 7, 2022, some opposition figures sought to trend a video in which thugs and supporters of former Senate President Bukola Saraki threw caution to the wind and disrupted an event held on 26th December 2018 by the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU) at the Emir of Ilorins Palace. This video showed the Saraki crowd, known in those years for intimidating people, heckling the then governorship candidate of APC AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq as he gave his remarks at the community event in the presence of the Emir and dignitaries from the Emirate.
Attached to the video (they tried to trend now) is a caption that the Governor was booed at Kwara State Polytechnic. It is false. No event took place in Kwara Polytechnic yesterday, August 7, 2022, to warrant the Governor being there. The video was taken in 2018 at the annual event organised by Ilorin Emirate's apex sociocultural body, the IEDPU. The Governor who was a candidate then, attended the event as a special guest of his home community association. It is well known that this riotous and disrespectful action by Saraki supporters and thugs was the last straw that caused the Saraki's loss of every single elective seat in Kwara at the 2019 General Elections.
Those who trended the video desperately meant to send the signal that an incumbent Governor was being booed. That probably misled the wrong audience. For the Kwara audience, however, the video did the opposite. It reminded them of the terrible old days when anyone who held different views was treated with contempt and harassed with thugs loyal to the deposed dynasty. The video reminds them of the dreaded dark days when respected Royalty and elders of the community were humiliated for daring to differ. The video brought back memories of when opposition leaders were denied access to public places.
But the fake video came at a wrong moment in history. Over the last three years of the AbdulRazaq Administration, Kwara has enjoyed unprecedented peace and security. Scheduled flights to the city of Ilorin have quadrupled. Less than a month ago, this conducive environment allowed all Ilorin sons and daughters and residents of the capital city to enjoy a very peaceful Eid as well as a joyous Durbar at which the Governor and other dignitaries rode on horseback along with the Emir amidst a cheering tumultuous crowd. Such events were never held peacefully in those dark years.
It was a video that retold the story of the horrors of those years, in contrast with the convivial atmosphere that the same man they harassed in the old video has now created in Kwara State. It is a rude awakening of Kwarans to the ugly past administrations and a time call for them to exercise their imminent civic duty of voting to permanently bury the bad old days and its ruthless rulers.
While the Governor represents a bright new dawn of free speech, those behind the video are purveyors of fake news reminiscent of the old order.
Certainly, no reasonable Kwaran wishes a return of those years where to hold a contrary view earns you jeers, indignation and violence.
Members of the public are kindly urged to ignore the old video clip which is clearly one propaganda gone awry.

Alhaji Bashir Adigun
Special Adviser, Political Communication to the Governor of Kwara State

Esseite:
You could have attached the old with time caption to validate the debunk...

What is the point of debunking a video without showing the factual one?...

Igbo:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?veQf-T-98xjI

Kalashnikov49:
So this miscreant is a kwara-rat!

So this APC zombie work is now confirmed.

@op...be rest assured that BIAFRA will emerge as a Nation and Tinubu will Labour Till Death...spits

ThrownBack:
PDP and APC are fond of fake news.

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ObosiLandlord:
No Igbo man will ever rule Nigeria.

Kalashnikov49:
What is Nigeria??...Unity beggars everywhere!!!

ObosiLandlord:
Akwa Ibom is a Nigerian territory, you are about to make the same mistake[b] ojuku made that lead to millions of Yeebos dying.[/b]

No one cares about useless Yeebos, when we are ready to let you pigs leave, referendum will hold in Enugu, Imo, Abia, Igbo part of ebonyi and Anambra.

Kalashnikov49:
You will see what your brain will never understand.

All this your taqqiya ends here..even the Fulani community is being watched closely.

Tell your people.

As for IGBOs...you cant take 1 inch of their land and you know that.

Even in Ebonyi..e go bloody for una....just keep deceiving yoursef.

GOD HAS PUNISHED NIGERIA...so its already DEAD!!..Spits!!

ThrownBack:
PDP and APC are fond of fake news.

Labour Party is the best in everything, Peter Obi for president.

ThrownBack:
PDP and APC are fond of fake news.

Labour Party is the best in everything, Peter Obi for president.

You will think , this is a joke...till the real dance starts.

Then you will understand.

MURIC Almajiri are programmed from birth to be thoughtless....so your being also useless is a plus

ObosiLandlord:
All this your ranting no concern me, the most important thing you must understand is that, Biafla will start and end in the South East.

I do not care about your useless people. I have been to your useless region, nothing dey there. Nigeria do not need Yeebos, Yeebos need Nigeria.

Kalashnikov49:
You will think , this is a joke...till the real dance starts.

Then you will understand.

MURIC Almajiri are programmed from birth to be thoughtless....so your being also useless is a plus

Thienubu is a thief..drug dealer, certificate forger, killer....criminal bastaaard.

Reply..abeg..make we kwantinu.

Igbo:
Peter Pandora Obituary is a Thief

Kalashnikov49:
Thienubu is a thief..drug dealer, certificate forger, killer....criminal bastaaard.

Reply..abeg..make we kwantinu.

I be Afonja and Almajiri brain burster.

Igbo:
are you also Ibo boy?