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Ministerial Nomination: Nobody can stop me – Lai Mohammed
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has faulted protests following his ministerial nomination, insisting that he deserved the ministerial nomination from Kwara State and that nobody, or group of persons could deny him.
The APC scribe stated this while fielding questions from journalists in Ilorin.
According to him, he and his family registered in Oro, his hometown, adding that he contributed in no small means to the development of the party in his local government and the success of the member of House of Representatives from that area and challenged the protesters to cross check these facts.
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Admitting that he was not in Kwara State during the elections, Mohammed said his national assignment to the party during the period was more important than coming to cast a single vote in the state.
He also claimed that since nobody could deny him of being a citizen of Kwara State, it was his right to stay in Lagos or any part of Nigeria and so he deserved the ministerial nomination.
According to him, the emergence of his son as a member of Lagos State House of Assembly was his own political reward for his service to the people of the area which they willingly gave him, and so had nothing to do with his own nomination as a minister.
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