By Demola Akinyemi

Ilorin – The leadership of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Kwara State and Governor Bukola Saraki, weekend, struck a deal over the candidature of Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, the governorship flag bearer of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in April polls.

While members of NURTW pledged their unalloyed support to the ambition of Alhaji Ahmed, the state government, among other things, gave them twenty buses through the poverty alleviation programme.

Governor Bukola Saraki  said the gesture was part of the poverty alleviation programme of the government being implemented to better the lots of the people of the state.

The governor, who immediately released 10 of the buses, assured that the remaining buses would be made available after the government would have started getting refund of the costs of the first batch.

He, however, advised that the buses be put into judicious use and the costs be refunded as and when due.

Saraki also announced donations of a borehole and 20KVA power generating set to NURTW secretariat in Ilorin.

Scores of members of the NURTW led by its  state chairman, Alhaji Bashir Alliu, had  stormed the Government House, Ilorin to intimate the leadership of the PDP of their commitment and support to see to the emergence of the governorship candidate of the party, Alhaji Ahmed, as the next governor.