A man who does not understand his ministry, who has no real stake in the political movement of his conscience, has no business speaking for the people of Kogi State in such an overbearing and arrogant tone.
That you are a minister is fine; that much is beyond dispute. But to come out and claim that “Kogi State will deliver a resounding victory for President Tinubu in 2027” when you have no influence in your own ward, when you cannot even command respect at the grassroots level, is nothing short of irritating and politically reckless.
Your statement reeks of a man struggling to keep his job, a federal appointee who imagines that the title “Honourable Minister” automatically grants him the authority to dictate the will of 4.5 million Kogi people. Kogi is not yours to peddle to the president as though it is your personal property. You are not a kingmaker in Kogi; you are not even a king in your ward. The people of Kogi are not your mouthpieces, and your shallow pronouncements do not represent their hearts, their minds, or their future.
Kogi people are very wise and very conscious. They see through the theatrics of politicians who rush to Abuja, forget their roots, and then return to brag about fictitious victories. They vote according to the dictates of those who truly represent their ideals, those who stay close to the ground, who feel their pain, and who fight for their interests. They do not follow the speeches of ministers who show up only when cameras are rolling or when some political heat is needed. Our votes are not for sale to the highest sounding voice in the studio; they are reserved for those who have paid their dues in the trenches of struggle.
When you talk about Tinubu and 2027, you forget that Tinubu’s chances in Kogi rest on performance, on trust, and on the people’s judgment. You also forget that the very election you claim to celebrate in our state is one that history will never forget as a fraudulent affair. The so‑called victory APC claim in Kogi was not a clean mandate; it was a deeply flawed process, engineered by forces far removed from the real will of the people. To tie your bogus narrative of “resounding victory” in 2027 to the shadow of that fraud shows how out of touch and morally bankrupt your political reasoning is.
You have no yardstick in Kogi, no measurable structure, no grassroots organs that can authoritatively claim your name. You are not among the leaders who have built parties, mobilised youth, or defended the oppressed in Kogi. If you had any real influence, you would not be running around the media declaring victories for people you barely represent.
A minister who cannot deliver his compound, cannot even guarantee peace, security, and development in his immediate community, should not be lecturing the entire state on how it will vote in 2027. In the whole write up, I am yet to see what you claimed will be a defining project for the president in Kogi state. You have stake in the affairs of government
You are not one of us, Minister Audu. Your voice does not carry the weight of Kogi’s conscience. When the people of Kogi speak, they will not speak through your self‑serving pronouncements. They will speak through the candidates they genuinely trust, the movements they truly belong to, and the ideals they have fought to protect. If you continue to impose yourself as “the voice of Kogi,” you will only expose your isolation, your irrelevance, and the emptiness of your political posture. Kogi will decide its future; you will only decide how loud or self-centered you wish to sound in the corridors of power
– Salihu Adam Jiddah PhD writes from Abuja.
