Your Excellency, I extend my warmest salutations and profound respect.
Permit me, Sir, to articulate the collective supplication of a people long muted by geographical isolation and governmental inertia—the Ejinya axis, comprising thirteen to fourteen resilient communities along the boundary between Kogi and Benue States. These communities, though small in population, are vast in spirit, courage, and faith. Yet, they remain suspended in the margins of progress, pleading for a single glance of compassionate governance.
Your leadership strides across Kogi State are not lost on us. Indeed, the people of Ejinya join in acknowledging your infrastructural interventions and visionary policies that continue to reposition the Confluence State for growth and inclusion. However, amid this laudable advancement lies a region still wrestling with deprivation—our Ejinya communities, where life is a daily testament to endurance.
To be fair, we recognize with sincere gratitude that certain politicians from our constituency have exerted commendable efforts in advocating for our welfare. Their passion is not in question; their capacity, however, is limited by systemic constraints. And thus, we turn with reverence to you—the Chief Servant and father of all in Kogi State—to graciously inscribe the Ejinya axis upon the tablets of your heart, granting it the dignity of inclusion through deliberate project allocation and infrastructural presence.
Our predicament is not merely material but existential. Our roads, once hopeful arteries of trade and connection, have collapsed into gullies of despair. Potable water remains a distant dream; our schools, relics of an earlier generation, now echo with the emptiness of abandoned promise. The health centres, skeletal in form and function, stand as monuments to neglect. Our women trek miles to fetch water; our children, barefoot and bright-eyed, journey long distances to crumbling classrooms. Yet, their laughter persists—a divine irony that faith can outlive hardship.
We do not demand opulence, only equity. We seek not luxury, but life. For governance, at its purest essence, is the equitable distribution of hope. When a people must invoke divine intervention before basic amenities arrive, then policy has lost its moral pulse.
Your Excellency, the Ejinya people are not rebellious; they are resolute believers in the social contract. Their patience is legendary, their loyalty unshaken. But silence, if stretched too long, becomes sorrow—and sorrow, when unattended, breeds despair. Therefore, we implore you: let Ejinya breathe again. Let the peripheries of Kogi become centres of purposeful attention. Let our children see light, our farmers see roads, and our mothers see hospitals that heal rather than haunt.
You are celebrated across the nation as a visionary and compassionate leader—one whose governance philosophy resonates with fairness and empathy. May that same virtue be extended to the Ejinya communities. Even a single borehole, a rehabilitated school, a repaired road, or a modest electrification project will translate into an anthem of gratitude on our tongues.
This letter is not an indictment but an invocation—a solemn reminder that the measure of leadership is not found merely in the grandeur of cities, but in the transformation of forgotten villages. The glory of a state shines brightest when its most remote corners feel the warmth of inclusion.
May Kogi State, under your noble stewardship, continue to evolve not only in infrastructure but in justice, compassion, and human dignity. And may history record that when the Ejinya people cried, their Governor heard—and acted.
– HRH, Ajofe Sunday Suleiman
Chief Praise Singer (Onu Awohi Attah Igala) from Ehecho Ejinya, Udama District, Ankpa LGA, Kogi State
