You’re not fit to be a ward councillor because he has no integrity – Lai Mohammed tells AbdulRazaq

The crisis between Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State over the soul of the All Progressives Party (APC) in the North-Central State has deepened.
On Monday, Lai Mohammed defended his integrity, saying AbdulRazaq was not fit to be a ward councillor because he has no integrity..

Describing AbdulRazaq as a liar, the minister said the governor was a nobody in the politics of the state until founding fathers of APC took him round and campaigned for him to be elected in 2019.
He also revealed that the governor did not even contribute a dime to his (AbdulRazaq) election, saying “it’s on record that I received no penny from him to execute his own election”.
Mohammed declared that when President Muhammadu Buhari visted the state for reelection campaign in 2019, “even the ankara that he (AbdulRazaq) wore, I provided the money for it. I sent it to his house”.
The minister accused the governor of ‘disappearing’ with N74 million of party fund.
He said: “In the run-up to the by-election, I raised N100 million and asked the donor to give it directly to the candidate, Ajulo. When I got home, the party chairman said they needed money to train agents and to meet other logistics, I think it was about N26 million.
And I told Ajulo (the candidate), give the chairman N26 million, come back tomorrow to discuss how we are going to use the balance for logistics. I did not see him again after that. He disappeared. So I got worried and went to Ilorin and I met my sources and told them here’s my problem.
This was the eve of the election. They assured me they will raise money. About 5pm, they called me and said, look, they were able to raise only N50 million. And I called my treasurer and asked how much do we have and he told me.
I now called somebody and I said, we need N50 million tomorrow. The person said, I have it but there’s no way it can get to you in Ilorin. Borrow it from anybody. I will pay you. So I went to AA (Governor Abdulrazaq), and I said, loan us N50 million. As soon as the election is over, I will repay it. But he sent N48.150 million.
We won the election, the person refunded the N50 million to him. Unknown to us, it was him and Ajulo that hatched that plan. The money he loaned us was part of the N74 million he never returned.
How did we know? It was the wrappers, but it didn’t make sense to us at that time. I called Ajulo, unfortunately, people who were coming from his village to celebrate, had an accident and we lost seven people.
At that point, I could not start asking for the balance of the money. But now, from his own interview, it’s clear that it was a ploy between them. In other words, he made a profit from our money.
This is our money, they loaned it to us, we paid them back. It is complicated but that’s the honest truth. So, it is not for him to start talking about dishonesty. If anybody was fraudulent, it’s him. I said that he should come, he and Ajulo should come and explain the balance of N74 million. Who did they give it to? Out of the N100 million delivered to Ajulo, he gave the chairman N26 million. What happened to N74 million?
Till tomorrow, we are still waiting for that money. This man set up a campaign committee he could not fund. So who was supposed to fund it?