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A former lawmaker representing Igalamela Odolu State Constituency, Elder Friday Sani Makama has berated the political actors in Kogi Eastern Senatorial District, for their inability to unite prior to the Governorship primaries that produced various party candidates ahead of the November 11 Governorship election in Kogi State.
Elder Makama who disclosed this during an interview with on Thursday said the People of Kogi East Senatorial district who controls the majority are not ready to reclaim power in Kogi State.
While describing the April 14th 2023 All Progressive Congress, (APC) primaries as peaceful and transparent, the former lawmaker said Governor Yahaya Bello is not the problem of the Igala people in Kogi East but rather they are the architect of their own problem.
Makama averred that, the APC primary that produced Usman Ododo as the party flag bearer in the forthcoming Governorship election is a welcome development adding that, the party will win overwhelmingly at the polls.
Continuing, Makama said “It is the fact that, with the population and the number of majority we control in Kogi State, it is definitely an advantage democratically for Igala extraction to reclaim power. But you know it is a democratic process. A democratic process does not just end at having majority. The democratic process has factors that make or mar it. Until the protocol that make or mar are put together properly, with good strategy, that is when majority can win election.
“But in a situation where majority is yet to put their arsenals together, you will not expect the majority to reclaim power. Just like you see it in the last primaries of both the All Progressive Congress, (APC) and opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), and other political parties, of course it is clear to anyone who is reasonable that Kogi East Senatorial Districts that controls the majority in Kogi State was not ready, to reclaim power.
“From the primaries, you can see the numbers of Igala extractions from Kogi East that contested the primary election. Same thing happened in the PDP and other smaller political parties. So it is evident, that the majority has not been able to annex its potentials to be able to reclaim power.
“It is not strange in democratic Governance. In Nigeria, we are divided into geopolitical zones. If you go to the Northern part of Nigeria, it is dominated and controlled by Majority who are Hausas. Of course you will discover that, the Fulanis, a minority in the Northern Nigeria. But today, the minority is ruling Nigeria.
“This is exactly evidence of the inability of majority to put its potentials together to be able to reclaim power. That is exactly what happened to the people of Kogi East Senatorial districts. For me, I don’t think the Governor has done anything wrong to consider where he can have comfort of having a candidate that will reduce am acrimony for him.
“You will not also forget that even before the primaries, the Governor had warned key stakeholders in Kogi East to unite themselves and be able to reclaim power. But they were unable to do it. We begin to trace the problem of Igala People to Alhaji Yahaya Bello. If Alhaji Yahaya Bello was the problem of the Igala people in APC, is Alhaji Yahaya Bello still the problem of the Igala people in PDP and other political parties in the State? You will discover that the problem of Igala people in Kogi East is not Governor Yahaya Bello but within the Igalas”.
Makama, who has been a major critic of Governor Bello led administration charged the people of Kogi East and West to look beyond ethnic lines and vote for the APC, stressing that, its candidate has what it takes to build on the legacies of the present administration.
The two-time Kogi House of Assembly member claimed that what the Igalas failed to do for their people when they were in Government, the present administration led by Governor Yahaya Bello has done it for Kogi East.
“At what point did Yahaya Bello became a devil that we should not relate with him! He championed the appointment of many Igalas into key political offices in Kogi State and Nigeria in general. Is it because the pendulum has changed from them? It is now about to favor me and favor those who believe in him that the Man has now become a Satan and should be describe as a deadly disease as Ebola.
“We have gone past this sentiment. This sentiment cannot take us anywhere. It is no longer that time to think of an Igala agenda that represent self, family or promote one particular ego. We have gone past that. The election in Kogi East will be a straight win for APC just like it is recorded in the past” he added.
