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The result of the just concluded election of the National Association of Okun Students (NAOS) has emerged with mixed feelings especially from the good people of Okun land.
While some of us won’t stop to get amazed at how much the Kogi State house of assembly speaker, Rt. Hon. Prince Kolawole has gotten himself enmeshed in matters of inconsequential value to Kogi state government and how far he has gone to accomplish his aim by throwing money around, others are getting more disappointed as days roll by over his consistent show of irresponsibility to house issues with the most recent one being the 10billion naira saga.
NAOS has before now organized many elections without much uproar but quite strange is how this year’s event has disturbed the media space. Sadly, it was because of the participation of one Moses Juwon Oloruntoba whose sponsorship was linked to the speaker.
News of the speaker’s meeting with different groups ranging from Electoral committee members to past principal officers raised more tensions as plans to unilaterally impose his candidate as senate president on the union began to emerge. This particular agenda of the speaker frustrated the first election but unfortunately could not prevent the second one because the students were resolved to resist intimidations and also defend their mandates.
The questions that we should be asking our own speaker now are:
1. If Prince Kolawole being the highest principal officer from Okun land cannot push his interest successfully through a democratic process, how will he be able to push the 2nd term bid of the governor come 2020?
2. Why was the speaker bent on imposing his brother on the union despite the strong resistance from a higher percentage of students?
3. What value is NAOS going to add to Kogi State House of Assembly and Kogi state government at large?
4. It will be recalled that this same speaker that gave out 3million naira to 300 students as scholarship fund (10,000 per student) spent roughly 5million naira on the recently concluded NAOS election, why the extravagance?
I hope that the speaker will find time to provide answers to some of this questions through his media aides soon.
– Juwon Kolawole writes from Iyara.
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