When a captain came onboard as the governor of kogi state, my feeling was as a captain he would pilot the state to high heavens but little did we know reverse was the case, Kogi state has been piloted to the ground. Oh kogi our lovely state.
I watched with great dismay thugs snatching money and gift items meant for the less privilege during the Ramadan period due to disorganization by the governors team and his security personals leaving a vast majority of the less privilege very disappointed having gotten little or nothing for the Ramadan. Wisdom is profitable to direct and I vividly stand on the fact that wisdom is not fielding captain idris wada for a second term in kogi state with the way kogi has been governed for the past four years.
Kogi state is a state blessed with both mineral and human resource and it has been on its toes for the past 4years. I remember doing my final year project 3years ago in kogi state, having mapped lokoja the state capital and few local government in the state, I couldn't but feel sorry and great pity for my people and my state.
Fast forward 3years from then today and still seeing the state go from worse to worse leaves me with no choice but to sound it to the people democratic party leadership on the disadvantage of fielding captain idris wada for a second term with the wind of change sweeping round Nigeria and most especially northern Nigeria.
The presidential election of march in which the governor lost as simple as his local government DEKINA to the APC speaks volume of his people's disbelieve in him and his administration which could go a long way in spreading through the state knowing vividly that the state was lost to the APC.
A few of captain idris wada lapses include, poor or no infrastructural facilities in the state as a whole, as the state capital lokoja could only be compared to some villages in some states with street light as its major achievement. I remember perusing through a picture on the internet and seeing students of the state university watching a basketball match sitting on hostel windows and slabs of hostel building watching a game in a basketball court that looks more like a bear ground with sands, this speaks volume of the infrastructural decay in the state and his low infrastructural intelligence.
The issue of insecurity is a big blow to wada as the chief security officer of the state, kidnapping is rampant in the state, arm robbers are having a filled day and life and properties are not saved in certain areas.
Also nonpayment/slash of civil servants salaries in a state where no tangible mega project can be shown for using the state allocation from the federal government says a lot about his vision and mission of the present administration. Its attitude to administration shows it doesn't deserve a 2nd term.
May be he's old, may be he's lost the zeal, may be he's nursing a health challenge, may be he's been pushed by a cabal of people. Reason he's not performed but we don't need that anymore, Wada as a brand would not sell the product called PDP in the coming election and it would be detrimental to the party.
The PDP needs a new set/generation of people who could see things from the new point of view, people who see governance as a big business of giving and creating effective service to the people and also generating money for the state.
A state so blessed with mineral and human resources could compete with even oil producing state if our resources can be effectively utilized. The ajaokuta steel company could spring up billions of naira and elevate the state, lands could be used for agriculture, thugs could be engaged meaningfully by creating employments.
What kogi as a state needs is a vibrant young person with a vision and mission to move the state to where it should be from where it is presently. The people of kogi must just get it right this time. God bless the PDP, God bless Kogi and God bless Nigeria.
This piece was sent in by TEMILOLUWA IPINMOROTI @oluwatexbaba
1 comments:
The crisis of bad governance is a function of poor followership than leadership. d key question is what is the alternative to WADA, politically which candidate has d political structure to challenge WADA for the ticket, it's primaries, the voters are in house! God bless your desire for good governance.