Kwara Must Change, a pro-democracy organization, has established a think tank called the Post Otoge Project (POP2027) to draft a policy document for the administration that will follow “O to ge.”
Dr. Mopelola AbdulMalik-Bashir, a well-known pro-democracy activist in the state and the immediate past commissioner for women affairs, was also named by Kwara Must Change to lead the POP2027 think tank.
Recall that the Peoples Democratic Party’s 16-year rule in the state was overthrown by the All Progressives Congress, which used the “O to ge” movement to win the 2019 elections.
“POP2027 think tank will develop a policy direction for the next administration to consolidate the gains of Kwara liberation, strengthen weaknesses identified in the current system, expand the scope of governance coverage, enhance the economic capacity of the state, sustain data-based developmental approach, build more human capacity and rebuild political capacity,” the group said in a statement signed by the Convener, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, on Sunday.
According to Hamzat, “POP2027 think tank will not only produce a policy document, but the committee will also develop an implementation framework, monitoring and observation template as well as priority focus on the scale of preference.
“Kwara Must Change is planning for the future by making this significant effort to solidify and guide the future direction in the post-Otoge era rather than be stuck in the Otoge movement’s initial success”.
According to Hamzat, Kwara State is starting over under the Otoge administration, and the public hopes and expects each new administration to perform better than the last.
Thus, Kwara Must Change is dedicated to creating a development-based political system in which concerns about development and governance serve as the focal points of political discourse.
