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My Fellow Compatriots,
Foremost, I am deeply grateful to all of you for the huge honour of your unwavering support so far. The journey has been a difficult one and the next turn promises to be even more tasking, but I am confident that we shall arrive our destination together.
A few months back, we began consultations across interests, affiliations and prospects around my desire to run for the Senatorial office to represent the Igala/Bassa nation in the ninth National Assembly. Within limits imposed by aptitude, comprehension, understanding and scope, we did everything we could to reach-out to everyone and anyone to get them to try to understand our motives, intentions and thought processes.
The approach was intended to elicit a consensus for my desire to represent us senatorially and also bestow the obligation of dimensioning my representation on all stakeholders irrespective of status, stature, standing and conviction. I must emphasize that, in the course of sensitizations we were clear with the message of optimism and confidence in the renaissance we hope to initiate. The resulting endorsement and reassurance were massive and I could not have imagined a greater honour.
I shall resist the temptation to demean the PDP because as an entity the Party neither inflicted nor ricocheted. Nonetheless, the degree of loathsomeness and accompanying incredulity operable in the intervening period between September 20th and October 18th epitomized a rare kind of impropriety.
Customarily, one would heed the counsel to be taciturn but, “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in the future” to continually hurt society and sustain the vicious cycle. For this reason, we elected to act decisively by engendering a symbolic ‘handshake’ that emblematizes the distinctive human ability for affection and friendship.
Irrespective of the platform or Party, it is our binding promise to the citizens of our great communion to affirm our fundamental mission to improve our condition and serve the public good. In actual fact, now is the time to demonstrate the values that make us unique through a reaffirmation of our commitment to working together, across challenges and in spite of seeming setbacks (part of the process that oils our unique caste of democracy) to achieve what is by default a rare feat.
The values we uphold to lead deliberate efforts to advance access, equity, and inclusion on one hand and initiate relevant programmes with capacity to promote an inclusiveness, partnership and enterprise are too strong to make us waiver let alone faint.
I must acknowledge that the political season has underscored profound divisions in our society but I must remind everyone that while our language and tactics change with every election cycle, it is imperative that our commitments to friendship, relationship, decorum, values, posterity and the community must remain sacrosanct and focused on advancing the positive course of our communion. We must not engage in politics of mud-slinging, name-calling, propaganda and innuendoes because like President Obama said “if you have to win a campaign by dividing people, you are not going to be able to govern them. You won’t be able to unite them later”. After the elections have been won and lost, Igala/Bassa societies and people will continue to exist.
Once more, thank you immensely for your support and belief in our course. I shall rely even more on your commitment, enterprise and sacrifice to continually steer our ship to safe harbor on the African Democratic Congress (ADC) platform.
– Dr. Victor Alewo Adoji
Senatorial Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC),
Kogi East.
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