:Written by – Barry Avotu Johnson 1st:
08174493381, barryavotujohnson@gmail.com
As the forthcoming Kogi state governorship elections gathers momentum, the aspirations of a lot of contending individuals have been seen putting up a clear wave of dust across the state.
In every capacity one finds him or herself in, the political weather is closing up as the same in terms of who and what party to support at the end of the tunnel, which have been prophesied to be with a great storm of tempest as if the state is a plane that has to travel across the eclipse to find riders for balance while in the air.
If you dear try to speak with any kogi state person, ether a male or female their words always counters the other in regards to who will finally be their state governor.
Authoritatively, it is very clear that the battle of who will slog it out in the political field of play will be between the PDP, SDP and the APC. Having seen the hand writings on the wall on what the people are saying across boards.
This brings into play the Kwara state political breakage force called the OTO' GE' which removed the almighty Saraki political dynasty from power, replacing it with a servant power authority where the servants to the master takes over power of authority instead of the abnormal pattern of placing a son ship personality on the people. In Kwara we saw how the movement started and what the end result gave the crusaders.
The new Senate or elect never knew that the time has come for the political dynasty he also served at one time will be flushed out of power using his personality. Today he is the senator of the federal republic without any tribunal questioning whatsoever the Saraki supporters might call it. Moreover, the politically dismantled Saraki himself paid tributes by congratulating the forces that told him to his face that the day has broken with a new dawn which shall project a case where any good and quality aspiration of a solid son or daughter of the soil can be supported for the good of all the people.
The same will be applied to Kogi state in the forthcoming PDP primary elections where a state political god father is putting finishing touches to field into play ether of his sons to be the 2019 governor of the state.
A lot of people are already saying it will not be well with whosoever will contribute to the failure of the PDP in the forthcoming governorship election because it is very true that the people of the state are no longer interested in the leadership of the governor Yayaha Bello led administration which has not done well at all in areas of civil servants salaries, security in the state which has turned the people to be always afraid of stepping out of their homes at night for functions.
The Oto' Ge' movement is said to have been planned by the people from the eastern part of the state. This was disclosed in an exclusive investigative interview with people in the Kogi east who are clamouring to replace bello as governor saying that their son was the proper person who won in 2015 but was killed by fate or unknown forces just to put bello in office.
It is said also that the leader of the PDP in the state is putting finishing touches to plans that will present the PDP with his sons. When we asked about the sons are expected to be the PDP kogi state governorship aspirants, we were told that the PDP leader have drafted one Engineer Musa Wada who is a son in-law to him by marriage and his own first son called Alhaji Abubakar Ibrahim Idris to capture the state in another rounds of slavery after running the state personally for 9 years the kogi people see and know as 9 failing and wasteful administration where the state stadium remains the major structure the WYES can see .
This style of forcing candidates on the people have been discovered as a factor effecting the growth of true democracy in leadership in NIGERIA over the years.
We saw it roll in some states where an outgoing governor will prefer to replace himself with a political son who will stand with him in the defence of the fraudulent activities carried out while in power. If you ask me why most governors want to replace themselves with their political sons, I will say it is practically because of the atrocities carried out by the outgoing governors.
They are always afraid that they will be brought to book. Most of the time, governors who take over from opposition governors always tell the people of Tue state that they inherited an empty treasury from their contemporaries who left office. E state pause is always found empty by new governors who are not anointed sons of the immediate past governor who handed over to them. Like in the case of Rotimi Ameachi and Wike of rivers State, the Oshoko master Ayodele Fayose who calls himself Peter the rock and Fayomi of Ekiti state, and mouth wagging governor Nasir Elrufia and Hero of Kaduna state and so many others across Nigeria.
Nevertheless, we also saw a Babatunde Raji Fashola and Akinwumi Ambode who with all the petitions rolling in the air over the years against Fashola and we never had a word from the Akinwumi administration that the ex governor is found wanting to answer questions about monies not accounted for.
But in the case of the Kogi state as our point of call in this story, we saw a captain Idris Wada led administration who saw nothing bad with the ways funds were wasted by his predecessor all because they are from the same political party and related by marriage.
The Kogi state PDP should see this as a point of call to ask the party leadership in the state to note that any attempt to force a god son or blood son aspirations on the party will spoil doom for the state. It will only end up distracting the goodwill that the PDP already built over Bello’s four years of confusion in leadership as the kogi people call it.
Having extred the plans of the Ibrahim Idris and sons agenda to lead kogi state in the name of the search for an acceptable replacement for governor yahaya bello come November, the people will show a different side of the story by supporting a Bello to remain instead of been in another stylised slavery under former governor Ibrahim Idris via the Wada connections.
This son ship agenda unveils that there will be new troubles in the kogi PDP immediately after the primaries if Ibrahim Idris is still holding on to e dreams of letting the MIMD of the people count by allowing a free and free primary election where his sons are out of the picture, because there’s no way ether of his some would contest in the primaries and not bee a contender. It is only going to be great for the PDP when the two of his sons stand totally away from the 2019 governorship elections so that the right personality that can face a bello will stand-up with the torch of the people at hand.
With my personal discovery so far it is very hard for the PDP to replace governor bello with a known candidate. Anybody who has help any political position in kogi state can never beat a bello. This battle is a fight for the green horns in the state politics as far as the terrain in concerned. The only way forward for the PDP is to shop for a pragmatic element that has serious reputation void of any misappropriation of public funds or otherwise.
PDP can only take kogi state with a clean personality both in private life and government.
With our survey, it is very clear that the next governor of kogi state will be stronger in character which must be far better than what the former governors have exhibited in time.
The late prince Abubakar Audu, Ibrahim Idris, Captain Idris Wada were all held for financial misappropriation of state funds in different aspects at one time or the other and this will only be good for the PDP to field as candidates someone who has a total free slate in character and a passionate mentality to restore the fallen walls of kogi state.
My key question is that, if Ibrahim Idris fields his sons as the PDP candidates for the forthcoming kogi state governorship elections would the kogi state people vote for the party? After seeing what other states are suffering to because their out gone governor replaced himself with a son who must continue with the same style of leadership thereby adding more poverty to the people instead of bringing out ideologies that would uplift the lives of the people.
Kogi people as a whole should rise up against all forms of godfatherism so that the state can undergo a serious surgery where the people would be secured in their state with employment for the youths, soft loans for market women to trade, good roads and other basic amenities that can put investors on the run to invest in the state.
Kogi state has everything any state in this world needs to stand up strong as a people and until we find positive thinking leaders who see it as a point of call to do the right thing at the right time for the good of the people , the state will continue to remain in the hands and control of a few political juggernauts who will never allow the right people rum the affairs of the state.
Kogi state people are very patient unlike people from other states like Kwara, Delta, Edo, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Rivers and Bayelsa states who told themselves the truth that no matter what it would cost them a son ship candidate will never be supported to become their governor and they came all out against it, look today the people won and the states are ready to move on to the next level where the people would enjoy the best from the best person in power.
This story is not a brief for anyone but a brief for the future of our dear Kogi state who have over the years suffered in the hands of very poor leadership which have seen the people in abject poverty over time.
Be you a yahaya bello, Ibrahim Idris or Idris Wada, kogi state is bigger than all of you and it is responsive to note that as politicians you all are honestly expected to file out the best on election day for the good of all our people who are ever ready to support a government who has a legitimate backing to fix the state into a world class avenue where people can be proud to say yes, am from Kogi state.
Let’s put our political differences aside and work out a sound formula that can uplift the lives of our people where they can also stand tall in reference points across the world in whatsoever capacity.
If a Bello is sweet enough to rep the APC let him be filed up against the best of all in the PDP and not a son ship agenda where the person wins and is held slavery to the detriment of the state which also is a defeat to true democracy.
All am trying to say is that the Oto' Ge' movement is gradually moving towards Kogi state and surely it shall count because Kwara state who stated the fire is just a next door neighbouring glass that can reflect to the mirrors of the kogi state people.
To crown these all up, it is very true to state that the sons of Ibrahim Idris are all also qualified to contest as governorship aspirants under the PDP but it their candidacy will spoil doom for the PDP thereby adding class and easy roots for Bello passage into the government house for the second time.
It is very factual to state herein that the aspirations of Engineer Musa Wada and Alhaji Abubakar Ibrahim Idris to be kogi governors will hold no water and will end up providing a work over election with the white lion roaring into victory come November, and not forgetting members of the PDP giving their anti party support from the back door to bello which have been the political tradition of politicians across NIGERIA overtime when they are in a loggerhead with imposed candidates by the party or godfathers.
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