Anyone is at liberty to misunderstand this article. I don’t care for some children of “unreasonable -religious – anger”.
Religious Nigerians are crooks. Crooks to reason and honesty. At best, they are narcissistic hypocrites.
I have always talked about “structural changes” in Kogi State. It is bottom line. In the years past, those who ran the political field in Kogi state were at best religious necromancers. They made sure those who they entrusted with appointive positions were Muslims who were of same faith with what they profess.
Although, it has always been known that religion in Nigeria is all about hypocrisy, social tag and her adjoining ethnic and political values to politicians. It was a return ticket to power. Some sort of political racketeering.
I’ve once heard someone beat his chest to say “A Christian can never be Governor in Kogi State”. To buttress his position, he outlined how people vote because of religion and how some people are enthroned into positions for first having religion as a qualifying rank. We saw it happen since 1991 when the state was created. This also happens in Nigeria at large. Kogi is a mini Nigeria. The faultlines of religion has always been a diabetes on our national psyche.
Hardly, you could find Christian names running many things in Kogi state. I mean sensitive things. Some people even converted into Islam just for political nirvana. That was the coloration they gave religion.
In the 15th century Martin Lutheran revolution, the church became so powerful. All knowing. All encompassing. All corrupt. The papacy took money from morally bankrupted people who swooned to power on religious estacodes. If your hand was lifted in church, no matter the behind hand that characterises who you are, you’d win.
Till date, religion and Politics is yet to get a divorce. In developing nations, it is a general disaster in succession.
Come to Kogi now.
When Yahaya Bello took over power, with courageous and incredulous stubbornness, he held that scam, scorned it into smithereens.
Leadership is about presence. It is also an attitude according to John Maxwell. Sometimes, what a leader needs to do is to demonstrate his intentions in radical living. I can bet, the heart of Yahaya Bello has created an environment for everyone to thrive regardless of their religious leaning. Religion is supposed to be a personal obligation until it crept into our political processes by eejits.
How does one’s religious affiliation guarantee his competence?
How does one’s religious affiliation guarantee a good heart and humanity?
We have seen men garbed in religious masturbation commit the most heinous crimes in world’s history. In the Papacy, records of paedophilia remains a constant. In the middle East, closet homosexuals are amongst those who condemn open homosexuals. This is even on sexual preferences, I won’t be judging, I am only stating the hypocritical angle.
In Nigeria, ALL the thieves that have pillaged this country of her national patrimony adorn the garb of being a Muslim or Christian. If we sustain this faux political licensing, how long shall we keep rotating in deceit of “confluence hegemony”?
Governor Yahaya Bello has given humans and competence opportunities first. It is resided in his appointment and body language towards political coitus. I don’t think being a Muslim could be a yardstick to access Government house these days for any kind of favour. In fact, the current Government largely operates an Open Door Policy (would expand on this in a later article).
There’s a psychological emancipation of people not feeling shortchanged because they don’t belong to a particular religion. The argument of one’s religion is totally sliding behind a hot sun. There’s a moon of religious balance settling in.
If Kogi State is to get better, we first need to change it from the structural foundation.
Conclusively, we need to remove the cobwebs of religion from our reality. It doesn’t guarantee anything. Nobody would make heaven for another person. How you deal with your own God or god is your personal injuria. Those who keep agitating for a return to power, check something peculiar about them- religious tone. They carry similar names. Similar born to rule mindset. Similar crime of the past. Similar suspects. Those things would return us back to Guantanamo bay. But in God I trust, we shall fight not that kind of battle again.
…Kogi Rising
– Promise Emmanuel (Kogi Rebel)
