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The emergence of Yahaya Bello as the fourth executive governor of Kogi state was an auspicious incident indeed which can only best be described as manna from heaven considering the fact that It came when all hope was lost on his side even to the point he the governor was accused of involving in anti party activities after losing his party primaries. Well meaning Kogites received his emergence as governor with so much joy and optimism; expecting things to turn around for being the youngest governor in Nigeria people were expecting him to experiment to the world how well the youths can paddle the affairs of a state if given the opportunity but the sad evolving reality on ground shows he lacks the aptitude to handle this manna.
My Christian folks made me to understand when Jesus prayed for manna, he did it with the sole intent of feeding his people and his performance wasn’t short of this but it’s becoming apparent the manna God gave Yahaya Bello seems not enough to feed his large lieutenants of praise singing political jobbers let alone the electorates. God appreciate the importance of food hence he provided Jesus manna to feed his people. The utmost infrastructure is stomach infrastructure, if you fail to provide this essential infrastructure to keep the citizens alive and free of thoughts that could lure them to perpetration of crime then you are not worthy to lead.
Every step of governor Bello keeps giving one reason to question if he truly have the aptitude to handle this manna, From appointing diaspora absentee media aides with multiple pseudo social medium accounts and every other fora of public engagement to help redeem his battered image as a result of cries of untold hardship from all angle of the state to purchased awards. so I keep wondering why is it so difficult to pay salaries of deserving workers but easy to channel so much resources on media propaganda?
Following the death of Abubakar Audu of blessed memory, Suddenly everyone wants to be associated with the power that be, just to have a cut from the manna from heaven including those who are only known for social media political activism didn’t fail to join the queue at the expense of sidelined heavy weight minded politicians who took a walk to the gallow to make sure the dream of a strong opposition party comes to reality, he classify them as old breeds but he forget the young shall get old too.
It is two years down the line, workers are still moaning and wallowing in hunger amidst schools closed down indefinitely while the government appointees sit at the comfort of their living rooms day-in day-out to make mockery of Kogites by spreading furious news to swindle the gullible ones.
The puzzling question begging for answer is why is almost everyone singing the same song of displeasure about the governor? It means something is wrong, it means it’s either the governor have chose to turn deaf ears to the plight of the people or the political jobbers around him are simply painting a glossy picture to him which is out of sync with the reality on ground.
If Bello fail, let the political jobbers in the name of aides be held responsible. they praised him to failure. If Kogi must progress we must first of all grow beyond sycophancy. That “I must chop” mentality of selling your conscience so you can have a share off the manna from heaven won’t take us far from where we found the state.
Let it stand, all of us cannot be politician
All of us cannot be activist
All of us cannot be perceived as enemy of the state but all of us can be patriotic citizen by doing that which our reason of conviction can vehemently defend when our conscience question such action.
I will end this piece with a my favorite quote of one of the founding fathers of democracy who said “You cannot barb a man in his absence” MKO Abiola
Bello do not barb my people in their absence, feed my people while they are still alive. God has given you the manna, feed my people before God gets angry with you.
– Aliyu Mahmud Amoto
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