Even as we are yet to reconcile with the trauma that Wada truncated our progressive agendas and birthed the existing mess, the descendant of recycled politics has resurfaced with unalienable prospects apparently inimical to a generational power shift. What else does he want after four ineffectual years? How did he come back with a so-empty second term agenda? Who advocated the impression that Wada can still effect the changes we need having failed woefully? Can’t they read people’s mind?
The concepts delineating Kogi as private venture of some elements is totally unacceptable. Moreover, the major millstone in Kogi state presently are the antediluvian politicians that idyllic governance means pillaging of mutual patrimonies to. They have no liberal creed beyond elevating their fortune and that of allies. But Kogites had stepped beyond this caliber of people. We have outgrown their infamous frolics.
In the realm of politics as a game, Wada and his father in-law knows their onion, and I can confide that they’ve never being a proxy for success characters. I have not forgotten how Governor Ibrahim Idris, at the outset anointed the ex- director of AfriBank, Jibril Isah aka, Echocho in 2011 and how he took a Broadway u-turn against him and re-anointed Wada all in a frantic tender to cover up for financial breaches. As a matter of fact, they both colluded to murder Echocho’s political career from inception, take it or leave it.
And as I earlier said, Wada’s government was irrefutably another mishap for Kogites. This is due to sheer ineptitudes and laxity in the business of governance.
I was privileged to flip through his purported infrastructural portfolio via an album titled ‘Harvest of Achievement’. Without cogitation, Wada is indeed the author of fictitious projects which politicians and looters now compile to justify their failure.
During the sum up to 2015 election, letters were written to selected journalists with attached copy of Wada’s Harvest of achievement in a desperate move to falsify the available information on his botched government. And while many of us expected to see those projects spread around so as to vote him in for second term, numerous love-letter-articles were written in affirmative while the acclaimed locations of his projects were either deserted or short standard of what is in his album.
Thanks to God, APC government meant political business having failed from several attempts, and were so prompt to have approached one of the revered candidates which Kogites would have preferred over and over again to Wada.
I will publish his loopholes if he fail to realize that he is utterly irrelevant in the polity of Kogi state. But then, what I considered inviolable to this post is his claim in the book that internally generated revenue IGR got a tremendous boost under his watch. According to him, IGR saw an upsurge of 150% (N200 million – N550 million). Similar claim was also made by Yahaya Bello’s government which in the nutshell complicated the real liar. But, this is in addition to robust availability of funds to the administration Wada served. Of course, the Nation’s major revenue base was impressive with swift increase in the price of crude oil. As such, FAAC allocations were also navigated higher depending on what each state receives. I remembered vividly that the then minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala prudently recommended the need to save for rainy days but she was rebuffed. Governors, including Wada fought her dirty over the sacred opinion.
This is my point, amidst a consummate availability of resources during Wada’s tenure, the devilish table payment ideology was escalated by his government. It then pivoted to owing LGs, and gradually to the state workers. However, Wada told us that a summary of the outstanding wage bill was made thereafter, and the state government settled for a loan of about N50 billion which was later approved by President Goodluck Jonathan, but the CBN governor rebuffed. When he was asked why his assertion was he is from the minority and that he does not belong to a particular what!!!
Now, let’s go by the truth that a bird would tell in the absence of the farmer, what minority does Wada’s government belong to despite serving as a member of the then ruling party? How could a CBN governor decline presidential accent? And why did Wada kept mute instead of reporting back to the president? Are there undisclosed discrepancies (eventually discovered and communicated to Mr. President) that must have hindered the loan? What is Wada leveraging the sensitivity of the governorship position to hide from Kogites? We shall bring to the general notice the irrevocable errors in his purported achievements in a matter of weeks?
To the sane mind, ‘what else does Wada want’ is sacred and sacrosanct to the fact. Once beaten they said twice shy. If we fail to identify these recycled politicians, phish them out and strip them of power, we will all perish. The Kogi we desperately seek goes beyond the renovation of a classroom, repair road bumps, buy transformer and electric poles and digging of borehole. What we want is a state that functions in all ramifications. We are sick and tired of a government that expends public funds on paper projects. Let’s get Kogi working with technocrats like Dr. Victor Alewo Adoji.
– John Paul
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