Kogi Central Forecast Group (KCFG) has stated that with the number of registered voters in Kogi State, hope for Kogi Central or West to win the next governorship election in kogi state is slim
“Politics is a game of numbers with money and connection. Since the Kogi Central and Kogi West aspirants had lost out in two major Political Parties (PDP and APC) our chance in other young bland parties is very slim”
This submission was made in a statement by the President and Secretary of the group Mr. Yakubu Nazir Abdulhakeem and Mallam Dahiru Daniya at Meeting held a day after Sallah.
Seeing the battle is going be from one region of Kogi State, the group maintained that none the candidates from Kogi Central or West seem to be serious with less than two months to the November 21 election.
“Kogi Central and West should check the data below in order not to push or give ill-advice to our politicians unless concrete agreements reach between Kogi Central and Kogi West.
“We are of opinion that we should not support what happened to Senator Muhammed Ohiare in 2007 to repeat itself in 2015 where people were blindfolded to waste their money, lives and properties worth of millions naira for the sake of sham governorship race.
“The total voters registered in Kogi State by INEC are 1,350,883 split among three Senatorial District. From the analysis the total voters registered Kogi East Senatorial Zone is 556,912, the total registered voters in both Kogi Central and West are 676,951 while Bassa and Ibaji local government combined is 117,020.
“In the last Kogi State Senatorial Election Result Declared by the INEC were; in Kogi East, the APC candidate, Alhaji Abubakar AbdulRahaman, the winner as he polled 98,915 votes to defeat the incumbent, Senator Atai Aidoko of the PDP, who got 88,994.
“In Kogi Central Senator Muhammed Ohiare of APC scored 55,776 votes to defeat the PDP candidate Mr. Ahmed Ogembe who polled 42,733 votes and Kogi West Dino Melaye of APC won with 41,120 votes to defeat the then incumbent Senator Smart Adeyemi of the PDP who polled 38,148 votes.
“Still on the same Presidential Election in Kogi State, Kogi Central Total Votes 116,645 (5 Local Government Area) represent 28%, Kogi West Total Votes 111,287 (7 Local Government Area) represent 27% and Kogi East Total Votes 186,994 (9 Local Government Area) represent 45%. The Kogi Central and West with 12 local government area combined has 227,932 (55%) while Kogi East with 9 Local Government Area has 186,994 (45%).
“My Brothers and Sisters, whoever say power can change in Kogi State should look up the above statistic and do his or her own calculation. Unless we have 100% agreement with Kogi West which I believe it may not be possible. We don’t know how one of these two zones will become governor in 2016 if not by mercy, miracle or magic of God.
“After the Political Quasi-War in Kogi central in 2007 and peace restored back to Ebiraland, one of the political gladiators from defunct ACN, names withheld, while addressing the aggrieved supporters at Okene Local Government Secretariat said and I quote, “this is the last fight we have fought to get the governor and all Ebiras had voted for Senator Abdulsalami Muhammed Ohiare but we failed and it took us nowhere, it’s only through dialogue and power rotation we can be in that position not by force or votes which we had been tested”.
“We implore any governorship aspirant from Kogi Central to look at the speech of this political gladiator I quoted and the figure above to decide.
“People may ask what is the way forward for Kogi Central to become a governor? The answers are just very simple but look somehow:
- Prayer
- Lobby to become a deputy governor
- Finally, hope for a ‘Goodluck Jonathan incidence’
The group mentioned that the main agenda for their meeting is to decide which party to support in the forthcoming elections.
