By Adams Yusuf
When a leader commits his ambition to God rather than to himself, you are not looking at a politician. You are looking at a servant.
Today, Distinguished Senator Sunday Steve Karimi walked into the All Progressives Congress secretariat and submitted his Expression of Interest and Nomination Form for re-election to represent Kogi West in the Nigerian Senate from 2027.
He did not go in with arrogance. He did not go in with threats. He went in with humility, with faith, and with a record that speaks louder than any campaign promise ever could.
This is the man who built the Titcombe College CBT centre, one of the best-equipped examination facilities in the country.
This is the man who looked into the eyes of over 4,000 students across Kogi West, East and Central, young men and women whose families had sacrificed everything for their education, and said: your future will not end here. His bursary program did not just pay fees. It restored hope to households that had almost given up on tomorrow.
The man who sank 150 solar-powered boreholes deep into the soil of Kogi West, into communities that had never known the dignity of clean running water, communities that had buried children to waterborne diseases, communities that had walked miles at dawn just to survive. He did not just bring water. He brought back human dignity.
The man who looked at over 1,000 women across Kogi West and refused to accept that their potential should remain dormant. Through cooperatives, through empowerment, through investment in their capacity, he turned overlooked women into economic forces, breadwinners, entrepreneurs, and community pillars who now stand taller because one senator saw their worth.
The man who during the sacred seasons of Ramadan and Lent, when hunger pressed hardest against the poorest households, distributed N300 million worth of rice and food palliatives across all three senatorial zones of Kogi State, reaching Muslim and Christian families alike without distinction, without politics, without condition. That is not the act of a politician. That is the act of a father to his people.
The man who walked into the office of the Honourable Minister of Works and refused to leave without a commitment. He secured N3 billion in the 2025 budget. Then went back and negotiated an additional N6 billion. Nine billion naira in total for the Isanlu-Ejiba federal road, transforming a corridor of suffering into a highway of opportunity for Kogi West and every community along its path.
And today, having done all of that, he stood before his party and said simply: I want another opportunity to serve my people.
Not to rule. To serve.
He placed his re-election in the hands of Almighty God, the lifter of all men. A man who trusts God with his ambition rather than scheming in darkened rooms is a man worth trusting with your future.
“The greatest leaders are not those who seek power for its own sake. They are those who return to their people and say, I am not finished serving you yet.”
Kogi West, this is your moment. Stand with the man who stood with you when it mattered.
While others are busy spending state funds to stop him, he is busy submitting forms and trusting God. That contrast tells you everything about who deserves Kogi West’s mandate in 2027.
Senator Sunday Steve Karimi is going back to the Senate. And Kogi West is going with him.
— Adams Yusuf writes from Lokoja.
