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According to a popular music icon, power is nothing if the people cannot get qualitative representation. It therefore means, a morally rooted political leader would appraise his profile base on achievement in socioeconomic and political terrain. But reverse is the narrative as Senator Atai Aidoko’s media merchants continuously brings to the fore a crookedly assessed profile of a senator who has obviously failed on his mandate.
I was told that subsequent legislative chambers would be filled with some elder politicians like ex-governors and senators of out going extraction, hence the need for Aidoko’s continuity. How uncanny can people be? After eleven capsized years of a once renowned legislative giant, they still shops for him to service their private pockets or what? If our quest for accountability and transparency in the realm of governance will be victorious, we must abhor some old-school political rank and files who gets thing done from the comfort of their home. The likes of Aidoko who neither toil for vote nor get voted to impact humanity must be strictly avoided.
Another write up categorical of selfishness said and I quote; “It is on record in states like Benue, Delta, Yobe and others federal lawmakers, both at the green and red chambers, spent as many terms as they wish and to the acceptance of the electorates and constituents.”
It’s needless to ponder on this pathological lies but then, David Mark is undoubtedly the point of reference in the aforementioned Benue legislative chronology.
For the avoidance of doubts, let me bring to public domain that the ceaseless imposition of David Mark most especially in the 2015 election was a trade mark of some elites nursing senatorial ambition in 2019. They knew that the advent of his major rival (Daniel Onjeh) would cripple their plans, hence, the need for Mark’s continuity. As a matter of fact, the same political magicians are currently wooing the senator into considering a contest in the forthcoming presidential election.
Moreover, David Mark’s imprimatur campaign mantra to the people of Benue south has been the creation of APA state – a means of freedom for the minority indigenes who had not been given a chance in the number one seat of power since democratic rebirth in 1999. It’s so inviolable to their political affairs that the traditional monarch and some PDP elders practically pleaded with Alhaji Usman Abubakar (a.k.a young Alhaji) been the winner of the 2007 Senatorial election to step down for David Mark, thinking his ascendance as the senate president would drive home Apa’s victory. By and large, it has been the status quo as Benue South senatorial districts still lacks basic amenities.
Now, an Igala/Bassa folk whose priority is a better and saved Kogi east must take note of these that;
Just like Aidoko, David Mark did not win his local government (Otukpo) in the 2007 Senatorial election let alone others. Even the then president Musa Yar’adua attested to the various mal-practices that brought about their victory. So, Aidoko’s quest for continuity is a justice slaughtered on the alter of mischief. Just like David Mark, Aidoko is nursing the senate president ambition. But what can a man who is totally ignorance of people’s plights possibly offer even as senate president? Or
– what can the next four years of Aidoko in the red chamber profits that the wasted eleven years could not?
His online marketers knows how relatively sacred these question are but chose personal concerns instead.
As far as we can see of the current status, even with Aidoko as Nigeria’s president the narrative will still be misery and chaos.
Wait a minute,
Has anyone ever bothered to question the absence of Igah Ugbamaka’s (Aidoko’s ancestral home) consent on his continuity endorsement?
Has anyone ask why his ‘best eleven’ (eleven years achievement) is strictly 20 boreholes and 15 transformers?
Just in case the fallacious legal squabbles has succeeded on some faculties of comprehension, it will be justice right if evidence can be provided of his (Aidoko) exemption from a particular allocation nets to constituency development over pending legal squabbles. Moreover, his counterparts from Kogi west is also faced with similar issues from a government he has helped tremendously to enthrone yet, he never fails his mandate. The annoying part of all is our legislative quota missing outrightly from the struggles to revive Ajaokuta steel complex.
My reservations about Aidoko is far from personal grudge, it devoid strongly of an act of disrespect for his statesmanship. I have never sought for his attention for anything even when I had the opportunity.
But my bemoans are the ill fated mal-administration stage-managed by self-centeredness. The fact that Aidoko has never won election in the land, yet found his way to the helm of affairs via court proceedings is totally an aberration to democratic analysis and society like ours should not be part of.
My advice, Aidoko and his handlers should accept their failures instead of tarnishing the image of some aspirants with mantras totally different from what we have seen for eleven years. Our defiances are far above transformer and boreholes even though some community where those projects are mostly needed were not considered perhaps, the acclaimed projects are just a media appraisal.
We need a senator that would create an enabling environment where youths can begin to see themselves as an enterpreneurs rather than the endless search for white collar jobs, so if Idah/Ofu can produce such a credible candidate, then zoning would be an understatement of facts, he should be elected unopposed. Besides, Aidoko has failed from Olamaboro, so let Idah or Ofu be tested this time if the need be, even though Dr Victor Adoji whom they credited their grudges to is a staunch advocate of due processes and has demonstrated that severally with his quests for a level playing ground for all aspirants.
Finally, the ideas conceded in words like unpopular, uncertainty and certainty are misconstrued parlance of the highest order.
I am pained by the absence of morality in our leaders, otherwise, people like Aidoko shouldn’t be mentioned among the contemporaries popular with the demands of their people. How can a man who had failed his Constituency both in the green and red chambers, or have continued to loot what obviously belong to the masses be popular? For the pains and miserability or what?
If there is anyone whose political cloud is formed with uncertainty, it should be Aidoko because I am not certain of what he hopes to achieve for his constituency after eleven wasted years other than continuous diversion of public funds.
God Bless Kogi east.
– John Paul
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