In politics, some arguments are weak, and some are so alarmingly illogical that silence becomes complicity. The recent sermon masquerading as “strategic wisdom,” urging Kogi West to fold its arms until 2031, falls squarely into that category. It is a lullaby composed to sedate a people who have carried the weight of the state, delivered critical electoral victories, and endured the longest exclusion—only to be told their reward is more silence. That is not strategy; it is surrender disguised as sophistication.
Let us be clear: any theory demanding Kogi West to forfeit 2027 and 2028 for a hypothetical 2031 is not political strategy—it is a scam. It is an attempt to trick the most marginalized zone into endorsing its own continued displacement while the perpetrators of imbalance consolidate their dynasty.
Consider the facts. Kogi Central enjoyed eight full years under Yahaya Bello and immediately took power back again through Ahmed Usman Ododo. In a political system where rotation was boldly violated and then violated again, what moral or empirical basis does anyone have to claim that Central will suddenly embrace fairness in 2031? If a zone that reclaimed power without apology does not feel indebted today, what fantasy convinces Dr. Olusoji and his chorus that remorse or equity will magically appear tomorrow?
This is the deception wrapped in soft grammar that KEA refuses to swallow.
Rotation cannot be invoked only when it benefits the powerful.
Equity is not a one-way traffic.
And Kogi West is not a political orphan seeking permission to exist.
The historical record is blunt: Yahaya Bello did not rotate power; he recycled it. He did not balance the polity; he entrenched Okene domination. The same machinery that held Kogi by the throat from 2016 to 2025 is still intact. Yet we are being asked to trust the very structure designed to deny us. That is not strategy—it is political suicide.
Those peddling patience forget the oldest truth of power:
“Power is not given; power is taken.” — Augustus Caesar
Influence is not donated; it is seized. Authority is not picked from the shelf; it is taken with numbers, clarity, and strategic pressure. And Kogi West has all three.
Anyone pretending otherwise is either naïve or pretending to be.
Kogi West has the numbers.
Kogi West has the reach.
Kogi West has the moral argument.
More importantly, Kogi West and Kogi East share a natural political alignment—not built on sentiment, but on shared injury, shared exclusion, and shared determination to end Yahaya Bello’s authoritarian legacy.
The argument that the West should not field a candidate in 2027 or 2028 collapses instantly under scrutiny.
If Kogi Central could field Usman Ododo after the Yahaya tenure…
If power could move from Okene to Okene without anyone blinking…
Then nobody—absolutely nobody—has a moral licence to dictate when Kogi West should speak or wait.
You cannot break rotation twice, then resurrect it only when it serves your agenda.
Yes, negotiation is essential. But negotiations require leverage—not timidity.
No political bloc negotiates from a kneeling position.
Power respects strength, not silence.
KEA insists that Kogi West must negotiate from a position of electoral force, demographic strength, and strategic alliances—not from fear or apology.
Dr. Olusoji’s argument further collapses under historical analysis.
If negotiation alone delivered power, Awolowo would have been President.
If brilliance alone delivered power, MKO Abiola would not have been annulled.
Power responds to pressure, not politeness. To preach negotiation without leverage is to preach weakness as virtue. KEA rejects such doctrine.
Let us be blunt: Yahaya Bello’s political machinery was never designed to hand Kogi West power in 2031—or ever. It was built to sustain a dynasty. The antidote is not patience; it is a coordinated political uprising driven by the West–East alliance, voter mobilization, and the full exposure of the injustice that turned Kogi into a one-LGA republic.
Kogi West will not wait for 2031 based on a gentleman agreement that no gentleman respected.
Kogi West will not surrender to a rotation formula that rotates only when convenient to the powerful.
Kogi West will not beg for what it can win.
Kogi West will not mortgage its destiny to a false promise.
The future of this state will not be shaped by those urging silence, but by those prepared to push back, mobilize, organize, and end the era of political entitlement from a single LGA.
A new political map is emerging, and KEA is not consulting the ghosts of yesterday to design it.
Those who want to wait may wait.
Kogi West will not.
– Yusuf Muhammad
For: Kogi Equity Alliance
