Kogi East has been politically disarmed by design and governed by deceit. What exists today is not leadership but an occupation by self-serving elites who have converted public mandate into private enterprise. The zone has been stripped of bargaining power, reduced to ceremonial relevance, and pushed to the margins of Kogi’s power structure through deliberate sabotage from within and calculated exclusion from without.
The architects of this decay are not outsiders alone; they are homegrown political opportunists who mortgage the future of millions for appointments, contracts, and temporary access to power. These actors function as political middlemen—negotiating surrender instead of strength, compromise instead of confrontation. They preach patience while they profit from the system that keeps Kogi East perpetually underdeveloped.
Kogi East has become a political battlefield where the people are casualties of elite consensus. Roads decay, institutions collapse, and opportunities evaporate, yet the same political faces recycle themselves under different party banners. This is not democracy; it is political fraud executed through manipulation of party structures and betrayal of grassroots energy.
But the age of fear is dying. A new political consciousness is rising—one that rejects tokenism, despises godfatherism, and demands structural inclusion. The youths are no longer spectators; they are political combatants. The masses are no longer begging for crumbs; they are organizing for power.
This moment demands political audacity, not caution. Kogi East must dismantle the cartel politics that has held it hostage and build a militant, disciplined, and ideologically driven movement. Unity must be enforced, accountability institutionalized, and political relevance reclaimed through strategic aggression.
Kogi East can no longer afford political diplomacy without results. The struggle ahead is not for recognition but for domination within the state’s political equation. The message is clear: Kogi East will either fight its way back to power—or remain permanently conquered.
– Edison Atumeyi Edime
Political Activist and Youths Advocate
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