A Senate aspirant from Kogi East and former Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation, Alhaji Abdulrahaman Abubakar, said that the senatorial district deserves more local government areas.
He noted that local government areas like Ankpa and Dekina deserve to be further divided, stressing that they are too big.
The aspirant dropped the hint at the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) state secretariat after he had collected forms for the forthcoming general election, promising that he would liaise with relevant authorities through a bill and lobbying to ensure that more local governments are created.
According to him, ‘’Kogi East is larger than some states in the country and Ankpa and Dekina LGAs should be divided into more local governments while other local government areas in the district need additional wards.’’
He regretted that while the senatorial district had two senators when it was in Benue State, before the creation of Kogi State, the number had reduced to one with the creation of Kogi State.
On his chances during the election, the aspirant who said they were very high also disclosed that, ‘’I got promise from Almighty Allah that I am the next senator from Kogi East.’’
He further stated that “for the past 13 years, Ankpa has been empty-handed in terms of representation at the National Assembly, but this time, zoning arrangement favours Ankpa and I am the favoured aspirant.’’
In a related development, another senate aspirant from the district, Dr Ali A. Peter, noted that the entire Igala land had been deprived of many things because of poor representation at the NASS, an ugly trend he pledged to reverse if elected.
He expressed worries that ‘’we have waited for our fathers and grandfathers for long and we have felt no positive impacts. I do not want my children to ask me: ‘what have we been doing to change that?’’’
He pledged that with his entry into the senate race, ‘’poor representation at the NASS will end during our own time and not our children’s.’’
