Party politics is completely different from governance and a practical illustration of this statement is reminiscing on Lagos pre-2019 heat up, relatively with Kogi State. While former Governor Ambode was at war with his party all along, Yahaya Bello seems to be, in the opposite, building a castle for himself in the party, all along.
By common reasoning, I make bold to say the APC screening committee led by Sen Hope Uzodima did a not just a honest job, but brave decision in their choice of cleared and not cleared aspirants.
For the records, I took time to digest the remark on the various aspirants and in all honesty, save Yahaya Audu, those remarks are true.
Whereas, different commentators hold different views about the performance of Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, any right thinking political enthusiast conversant with the state politics will agree with screening report of the Party’s screening committee of the Kogi 2019 gubernatorial election.
In the build up of 2015, while late Prince Abubakar Audu was sponsoring the Buhari Campaign Organisation, the duo of late Barr James Ocholi and Governor Yahaya Bello were sponsoring the Buhari Support Organisation and Youth Arise Group respectively preparatory for their governorship ambitions.
Alas, in the case of 2019, most of the aspirants only spring up after the 2019 election processes without recourse to visibly supporting any of the party’s programmes, talk less of the candidates whom the governor now use to boast of a “25/25 Assembly, 7/7Reps and 2/3 Senators”.
By and large, whoever is contesting for the love of APC should wait and support her eventual flag bearer and whoever is contesting to oppose the present governor should wait and support PDP’s eventual candidate as anything short of these two counsel is as good as chasing a wild goose. APC and PDP remain the only viable political party in the State. No doubt, interesting times are quite approaching.
– Comrade A.M. Nasiru writes from Lokoja.
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