Up to now three months or thereabout, Kogi state has witnessed many political actions. A big a part of them have targeted on preparatory actions for the 2015 gubernatorial elections. Particularly, barring all odds which will rely towards the elections being held as proposed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, in lower than three weeks time, it’s anticipated that a winner would have emerged from the governorship contest from any of the 2 nice events, the PDP and APC.
Presently, these two events are adjudged by most pollsters to be of just about equal electoral power, but each week comes with a recent political motivation which brings with it a brand new set of social gathering members decamping back and forth both of the events. Certainly, it’s on this context that one would say that an outright victory appears troublesome to foretell for any of the events.
However, each events regardless of their boisterous posturing of assured victory are nonetheless at work to be sure that a loss doesn’t greet them on the polls as there’s a lot at stake together with delight and standard political harvests that include triumph.
In the mean time, a reputable survey carried out on Kogi politics revealed that on the social gathering degree, the shock of the final electoral loss by the Kogi PDP appears to have woke up its leaders to the truth that politics of right now is not enterprise as traditional. What the PDP Kogi appears to be doing is to halt their membership decline, endear its displeased members again to its fold but work in the direction of profitable. On the opposite aspect, what the APC hopes for, is to make use of the recognition of President Buhari of the APC, the ruling nationwide celebration to supplant the PDP however this will not be a simple activity particularly with the current cracks within the membership of the Kogi APC.
However, the APC continues to be exhausting at work attracting new members however this appears to have hit a brick wall due to the confusion and disagreements that greeted Audu’s emergence as its governorship candidate. For some political analysts, this will simply be a brand new window of alternative for the PDP to win again its earlier misplaced members to the APC. In any case, because the APC continues to confront the query of why it selected Audu , the Kogi citizens are watching and considering.
Exactly, the PDP has a candidate with little or no blemish, thus it has gone forward to concentrate on constructing its capability which witnessed gross decline within the current basic elections that President Buhari’s affect had a bandwagon impact in favour of the APC. As earlier said, the saving grace for the PDP within the coming governorship election could be the absence of ‘Buhari’ within the equation and rising risk of attracting new members from the APC’s home of commotion courtesy of the divergent views on its selection of Prince Audu Abubakar as candidate for the governorship race. How nicely this works for the PDP will depend upon its instruments of enticement and articulate propaganda technique.
For the APC, it is very important state that already, a wave of criticisms is on the get together management over Prince Audu Abubakar’s emergence and this has launched complexity upon the actual interpretation of the APC manifesto. For many political analysts, an APC Kogi governorship ticket within the palms of Audu rightly means it’s already lifeless finish to the struggle towards corruption as his alleged fraudulent antecedents clearly contradicts the coverage of President Buhari’s authorities on the centre from the identical APC. Emphatically, the general public report on Audu destroys all that the President Buhari’s led administration claims to characterize. Realistically, if the reality be stated, what’s going on in APC Kogi can’t be the character of progressive politics the Kogi individuals crave for underneath a person like President Buhari that’s extensively acknowledged to be the least corrupt chief in Africa. Thus, it won’t be incorrect to state that Audu’s choice as governorship nominee is a agency indication that within the Kogi APC, there are divisions in ideology and luxury zones for untoward characters.
Proper now, Audu has definitely infected the Kogi citizens with guarantees which are extremely unachievable. A transparent occasion is his promise on revamping the Ajeokuta Metal mill. Saying that he would increase cash by means of the Capital market clearly exhibits full absence of any concept as to how Ajeokuta Metal will ever work once more and it clearly signifies that his guarantees make no sense. Regardless of Audu Abubakar’s mumbled rhetoric, the very fact is that he’s removed from convincing in advancing the case for employment by means of Ajeokuta Metal as a result of his incapability to supply any coherent argument on the Ajeokuta Metal revitalization exhibits his gross continued allegiance to make use of falsehoods to persuade or confuse shallow minded individuals. Such isn’t removed from crude technique of political inanity used for an uninformed citizens.
Thankfully, the Kogi individuals are extra knowledgeable now as Audu’s goal marketing campaign on job creation by way of Ajeokuta metal mill is very irrelevant as it’s unachievable. Realistically, there isn’t any method Audu’s type of creating wealth can emerge from his antecedent that’s akin to the notorious Ali Baba’s antics. If really he needs to be Governor, he wants to hunt marco financial radical concepts of improvement which are related to as we speak and tomorrow’s Kogi, not his yesterday’s administration. Definitely, it will necessitate a verification of his means to deal with the challenges of a contemporary Kogi which requires a new type of dedication to deal with poverty from its leaders than the providing of empty guarantees to voters.
Certainly, via a mixture of ignorance and vanity, what Audu Abubakar is doing is to deceitfully faucet into the massive unemployed labour market and monetary weak spot of the Kogi plenty to make bogus guarantees forgetting that if the historic underdevelopment of Kogi State is correctly documented, the primary applicable step at rejuvenating Kogi state will probably be for kogites to carry him accountable over the alleged gross embezzlement of their state assets in his previous administration of which the fees towards him on the EFCC is put within the vary of tens of billions of naira. But, an harmless Audu is cunningly avoiding a correct trial.
Even Audu’s current outpourings “The voice of males are the voice of God, the individuals are craving for me to return again due to my efficiency between 1999 and 2003” through which he tried to depict himself as a performer in his previous years in workplace will solely make sense to individuals of little mental potential as a result of any try by him to inveigle himself into the hearts of the citizens with bogus claims of previous efficiency and guarantees is very condemnable as it’s low cost bare political deceit. Certainly, such feedback often relaxation extra on impunity and nuisance than electoral weight. On this case, it might simply be the allurements of workplace that’s Audu’s greatest attraction to be primary citizen of Kogi state particularly having watched his alleged looted assets deplete on the previous 4 failed makes an attempt to return to workplace.
For this reason anytime I hear Audu inveighing towards the current administration of Governor Idris Wada, I get very disturbed concerning the lethal way forward for a Kogi state in his management.
Once more, Audu definitely loves the thought of claiming that he laid the inspiration of Kogi state college, certainly, that may by no means be doubted however extending it to the purpose that the college is what it’s at present makes him a person on a deliberate mission to misplace details as a result of any goal thoughts ought to perceive that such claims can solely come from the mouth of a political dilettante that believes the citizens are incapable of ordering their ideas. Merely put, for the previous twelve years, it’s apparent that Audu doesn’t have the faintest concept on how successive governments in Kogi state have upgraded the amenities of the then glorified secondary faculty and struggled for accreditation from the NUC for the College to be categorized as an ordinary tertiary establishment.
Certainly, the inarticulate determination of the APC on Abubakar Audu to steer Kogi state is a gross political miscalculation that would have been prevented with targeted sincerity. Sadly, the path of the APC in Kogi has grow to be uncertain with the overwhelming affect of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. On this, the difficulty of imposition of James Abiodun Faleke, a Lagos state lawmaker and stooge of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as deputy governorship candidate to Abubakar Audu continues to be boiling however that may type a enough discourse elsewhere particularly provided that the political arithmetic by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to politically management each South west and North central areas deserves an expansive dialogue on the deserves and penalties. Nevertheless, what appears most hanging right here is that everybody that desires to be goal is aware of what it means for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu a.okay.a Lion of Bourdillon, to carry Abubakar Audu in bondage and to some extent, your complete APC management in North central area.
Certainly, even when some kogites are warming as much as Abubakar Audu over their ignorance on his lack of ability, the hazard that a possible Faleke governorship will portend for Kogi within the subsequent eight years after Abubakar Audu beneath Bola Tinubu’s manipulation far outweighs any doubtless achieve that Abubakar Audu might deliver. As such, any good analyst on Kogi politics should respect the truth that besides water begins to stream uphill, it’ll troublesome for the Kogi individuals to consider that the APC means nicely with Audu as their subsequent governor.
*Shaibu, is Chief Communication Supervisor to Governor Idris Wada
