By joshua 
Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem. On my weakened knees with painful heart and tearful eyes, I come in solidarity.
I appeal you take a look at my message and ignore the messenger. We know and collectively affirm that the lion is the king of the jungle and all other animals take cover when it roars.
We also need to know that they don’t fight each other. When a lion runs and stops abruptly to look back, it is NOT for fears or act of cowardice…it simply takes stock of the distance covered and journey ahead.
Their individual strength varies from specie to specie and age. If they ignore decorum, one must OBVIOUSLY go down and eventually becomes a meal for the ugly hyena effortlessly.
Your Excellency, the Executive Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, you are the commander in chief of the confluence and nobody can argue that position and powers with you as we all acknowledge that your power is tenured by right of the federal constitution.
Your Royal Majesty, the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, you are lion of the desert and your Royal powers and influence are not doubted nevertheless.
I have suffered through my vehement agitations for power shift/rotation during the various regimes of the past governments through my articles in my permanent column of Ebicom Newspaper way back. Don’t let my celebration be shortlived.
Those days in the farm, when a gourd is broken by a child on his/her way to the stream, he/she gets collective insults from elders for being careless.
The same gourd is broken by an elder, it is blamed on the gourd for not being too strong in the first place.
The bottom line is that the elder has diplomatically received a blame though not pronounced like the former.
We ought to know that the two arms belong to one chest.
The ongoing imbroglio is ill timed, unhealthy for the peace you have doggedly fought to entrench which by extension has put you and your administration in the eye of the storm.
Whatever points both of you hold, your individual positions are hurting and may be regretted by both if unguarded.
Two wrongs can not make a right.
It is like the proverbial stubborn tsetse fly that perched on the scrotum of a king. You attempt to smash the insect, you risk the next generation through your manhood. You ignore it, it sucks your blood to death.
Wisdom, a virtue, which you both possess in quantum is key.
It is already enough unforgiving…..that father and son battles. It will end in a shameful individual “victory” in defeat over the other but shameful defeat of our collective noble race.
I have listened to so many commentaries and painfully some from elders asking your Excellency to do the needful if the needful from His Royal Majesty didn’t come on time.
Your Excellency sir, soft-pedal and shelving of your sword will only make you a hero on the part of valour and whoever thinks otherwise should wait when he gets the divine mandate by only God into power and faced with similar dangle, he can do and undo.
Your name has already been written in gold, don’t let them stain it. Elections are within our domain now and we are already pitching different tents. Who do we blame when the “needful” is done out of protest?
Your Excellency, you are too knowledgeable in this game of Kogi politics especially along the geopolitical zonal divides over time than many.
A hero is that “coward” who in wisdom avoided a fight to sit on the cemented grave of the “brave warrior” who insisted on winning every battle sipping palm wine with roasted grass cutter.
Whatever the dog sees and barks, the sheep had seen it long ago and ignored.
Other past governors in mind.
If a son wins his father in a fight, he has lost in the eye of logic, so also if a father wins his son, he has also lost in the eye of logic.
Better for a fowl seen eating the carcass of a dog than dog eating the carcass of a fowl. The dog will be accused of killing the fowl.
Let’s heal the wound and avoid the impending tears which I know your Excellency, Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello and His Royal Majesty won’t like.
Let’s shelve this sword for the sake of posterity. I kneel, I plead, I weep !!!