The Kogi Equity Alliance (KEA) has concluded its deepest political audit in a decade, and the result is not a report — it is a political detonation. The old order has collapsed under its own arrogance, and a new architecture, powered by the people, has risen in its place. Kogi State is no longer defined by the illusions of a fading party machinery; it is now defined by Ajaka in the East, Natasha in the Central, and Karimi in the West. These three forces have redrawn the political map with surgical precision, while the APC, once feared, now wanders the state like a structure abandoned by its own builders.
Across Kogi East, KEA’s field intelligence reveals a political phenomenon too massive to ignore. The people have not just shifted support — they have transferred their political soul to His Excellency Murtala Yakubu Ajaka. In every village, polling unit, and ward across Dekina, Ankpa, Idah, Ofu, Ibaji, Bassa, Olamaboro, and Igalamela, the same message thunders through the land: Ajaka is our mandate; Ajaka is our voice; Ajaka is the correction of 12 years of injustice. INEC’s IReV confirms what KEA witnessed firsthand — the East did not merely vote for Ajaka; they staged a people’s uprising through the ballot. SDP has not become a party in the East — it has become a movement, a civil resistance wrapped in political expression.
In Kogi Central, the old political structure has suffered a collapse so severe that even its architects can no longer pretend it stands. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan did not just win an election; she broke the spine of a dynasty that believed it could hold power forever. Her victory — affirmed at the Tribunal and the Court of Appeal — ignited a political renaissance in a region long suffocated under the shadow of a two-governor syndrome. KEA’s intelligence confirms what the people whisper daily: Kogi Central is trapped between an elected governor and an unelected godfather who still pulls the strings. This distortion has produced chaos, confusion, and resistance — and Natasha has emerged as the only legitimate, fearless, unbending voice of the Central. PDP is rising because Natasha has awakened a spirit of defiance and restored the region’s dignity.
Then comes Kogi West, where the APC’s final lifeline hangs by a single, unbreakable thread — Distinguished Senator Sunday Steve Karimi, the man who has become a one-man army, a human fortress, and the moral compass of the entire region. KEA’s investigation across Yagba, Ijumu, Mopamuro, Lokoja, Kabba/Bunu, and Koton-Karfe shows a truth that even the APC leadership knows but fears to admit: the West is not standing because of the APC; the West is standing because of Karimi.
From the moment he delivered the historic Kabba Day speech, a speech that erupted through the political atmosphere with truth, courage, and statesmanship, Karimi became more than a senator — he became the guardian of the West. That speech was not mere rhetoric; it was the day the West declared it would no longer kneel before political intimidation. The people rallied around him instantly, not out of fear, but out of admiration. Since that day, Karimi’s calm strength, unshakable integrity, and principled maturity have given the West a center of gravity the APC could never create on its own.
He commands loyalty without demanding it. He builds unity without forcing it. He stabilizes the region without shouting about it. KEA’s field data shows that if Karimi steps aside tomorrow, the APC in the West collapses instantly — because it is Karimi holding the APC, not the APC holding Karimi. Where others rule by threats, Karimi leads by trust. Where others cling to power, Karimi commands respect. His influence is not borrowed; it is earned through decades of fairness, courage, and service. In a state drowning in political greed, Karimi is the one man whose integrity has kept his entire zone from falling apart.
Across the state, KEA’s intelligence reveals a dramatic pattern of decay within the APC: mass defections, silent mutinies, internal rebellions, collapsing structures, broken alliances, and a public confidence crisis so deep even the party’s hijackers can no longer deny it. Kogi is rejecting the politics of intimidation, deception, and selective empowerment. The people are choosing credibility over coercion.
The new Kogi political order is now shaped by a formidable trio: Ajaka — the people’s governor-in-waiting whose dominance of the East is total and irrevocable; Natasha — the iron voice of the Central whose courage has broken the chains on her people; and Karimi — the one-man army anchoring the West with maturity, discipline, and unmatched political influence.
KEA’s verdict is final and explosive: Ajaka commands the East. Natasha governs the Central. Karimi anchors the West. And the APC, stripped of moral legitimacy, is crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions.
The people have redrawn the map. The old empire has fallen. The new order has risen — and it carries the names Ajaka, Natasha, and Karimi.
– Yusuf, M.A. writes from Kogi state.
