Your Excellency,
I have keenly followed the activities and public assessment of your government as old as your inception to office. While your online handlers are quick to label as antic whosoever oppose your government policies and direction, I admit the fact that you lacked my goodwill during electioneering but, my mind is open and very neutral towards
accessing governments as the state must always come first. It is a naked truth to say that the single opportunity God bestowed on you is an all time desire(power shift) of the two major ethnics (Ebira and Okun) co-existing with Igala in Kogi state. Therefore any mannerism of leadership chosen by you is quite understandable. But, it will be an act of gratitude to God, if you acknowledge not to have truly worked for the “providential governorship” as much as is expected of you by law, common sense, human standard and electoral phases.
Every leader should bear in mind three things, and your Excellency should take this very serious: life before position, life in position and life after been in position. Obviously, you have experienced the first and you are currently in the second which is very requisite to the third. I believe the one you are presently in is very significant to your race (Ebira), faith (Islam), age class (Youths) and political party (APC) as it shall not only form your own chronicle but a litmus test and point of future reference to this entities. Even if I independently or based on your online image makers leverage score you excellent for the time past, I am sorry, the combined expression of the grassroots and strike action of the labour unions will grossly indict you in the court of public opinion. Hence, your “NEW DIRECTION” government needs urgent sit up.
Based on the foregoing, if no adjustment is made, you will be creating a big dilemma for the entities earlier highlighted with your life in position as well as laying foundation for an overwhelming defeat in the rerun elections which is logically unavoidably ahead of you. That is if court does not short change you with Hon. James Abiodun Faleke for the rerun. You cannot be a popular candidate while kogites are wallowing in abject poverty, untold hardship, immorality taking its toll, kidnapping everywhere, poor human resourcefulness and the salary/arrears of civil servants and pensioners hanging with back logs. Except your online team misfeeds you with information, with this ills, the media and public expressions shall point out the contradictions between God’s providence and qualitative leadership when the time is due. So, ignoring objective criticisms and labelling it as handwork of oppositions will only add to the potential doom on the pay day.
Your Excellency, you must know that, a leader must not hang himself simply because he wants to sanitize the system. I can say that the only focus of your government so far is getting rid of ghost workers but it cannot well enough justify the criticisms that you withheld the released twenty billion Naira Bailout fund, the just suspended but prolonged strike action by labour unions across the state and negating the fact that people are dying slowly. If I were you, I will take a realistic view of the state economy, consolidate the plight of civil servants and take advantage of the fact that civil servants easily forget hardship once their demands are met by doing the needful. Let it not be that you are spending bulk money on some consultants and professional advisers whom might have laid siege on your office to extort “Yam” because, if it so be it- your problem lies within.
My governor; my governor! Do not despair. After all, even in the face of this licentious hardship in the state, some people are resolute in defending you. Your supporters have coinned “BELLOvelence” for you in defence to the coinage “BELLO-BAILOUT” which dissatisfied kogites has branded you with. This shows your fit survival even in instances that seem almost impossible to be defended. Whatever, you must borrow wisdom from “Robert Greene’s” fourty eight laws of power where he says (law 47) -“do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop”. That is to say, there is no substitute for strategy and careful planning. The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. While a quite number of kinsmen and beneficiaries are speaking for you and trying to exonerate you of some reality. History too, is making its documentation of your chronicle. Remember, History
is an aggregate of past events and events are passing!
You must remember Prince Abubakar Audu, the former governor who died at midway in the election you took its glory via the December 5th, 2015 extrinsic supplementary election. When he died, those who used to criticize him, worked against him, accuse him of contesting APC governorship primaries without resigning from the party’s BOT and those that even accused him of defrauding the state eleven billion Naira eulogised him as Kogi’s best governor ever, a nation builder and his demise was generally described as an irreplaceable loss to Nigeria. So, it won’t be new if you are called for a national honour anytime soon or for the “Ane-Ebira” to crown you with her highest
traditional title. The youths will celebrate and describe you as a role model and icon of generational shift as many columnist will write your biography such that the content will ignite your passion. All because in Nigeria, politicians are not celebrated based on merit.
Moreover, money buys flatter. It is therefore left for you to decide where you are going and what you truly want tomorrow. I wish you the product of your foresight.
Yours Sincerely,
– Comrade A. M. Nasir
