In Kogi State, they are not content with letting bad enough alone. After nurturing what they like to happily describe as an inconclusive November 21 governorship election, and exhibiting betrayal and opportunism in making unlawful claims, they have now resorted to producing elders and stakeholders, especially from Okunland, to pressure Kogites to accept illegitimacy. The duo of Dino Melaye, a senator, and Clarence Olafemi, a former Speaker of the State House of Assembly and also one-time acting governor, began that crazy and infamous embrace of distorted reality.
Now, sundry stakeholders and so-called elders groups are coming together by the week to either pressure James Abiodun Faleke, running mate to the late Abubakar Audu in the last and disputed governorship poll, into embracing the illusory Yahaya Bello ticket, considering how both INEC and the APC had made the latter the inheritor of the victorious Audu/Faleke ticket, or to get the party to appoint a new deputy to Alhaji Bello.
The problem is not just the appalling sense of justice being displayed by these so-called elders, but the fact that many faceless and disreputable groups now masquerade as elders purporting to speak for the Yoruba Okun of Kogi State. They indicate how easy it is to build a castle to injustice not only in Kogi but in Nigeria as a whole.
