OPINION: No, Not Again... | By Alew Adejo Taleeb
Whoever invoked a cyclical course on the Anebira that has refused to be evoked. It is amazing that we can't figure out why is it that when we as Anebira are into any mutually beneficial struggle an ugly divisive spirit seem to set in to pitch us against our collective permanent interests.
The scenario that played out during the famous struggle for the creation of Kogi State that was significantly spearheaded by two prominent patriotic Anebira sons Gen Salihu Ibrahim and IGP Aliyu Attah decades back, during the IBB military junta which events many are too familiar with, is ultimately trying to play out again before our very eyes, this time in a democratic dispensation.
I hate to believe that certain forces in the land are again contemplating to work against the collective aspirations of Anebira to push a consensus candidate for the Kogi State Central Senatorial District for 2019 for the constituency's Senatorial seat at the Parliament on the ruling Party platform in the person of our illustrious learned daughter Barr. Natasha Hadiza Akpoti who symbolizes the consistent voice for the resuscitation of the moribund Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State.
Our ancestral heritage as agrarian Anebira are famous for sowing their best seeds on fertile grounds for bountiful yield which stand them out throughout the farming communities across our Nation. What has happened to this popular heritage - why do we keep recycling seeds that only compounds the political fortunes of our erstwhile famous Constituency?
In this representative dispensation the upper parliament remains the ideal fertile ground to sow quality seeds and we undoubtedly have the good seed in Barr. Natasha Hadiza Akpoti who on her own has proven to have been tested and trusted over time to project the utmost best interests of the average young and old Anebira including the vulnerable. Why in Heaven's name therefore should any Anebira want to settle for imitation when the Almighty God has squarely placed original in our faithful hands? Many would want to say it's about politics but a hypothetic question before the people is why we must continue to play politics with every rare opportunity that God thrusts in our hands to rewrite our chequered history, why is it that we seem to prefer to constantly groan under unending yoke of social and political subservience in the nation?
The Scripture puts it in the most succinct words "To Sow Your Seeds on Fertile Ground..."
A fertile ground that is devoid of cankerworms that will attract life to the most sought after industries in the land in Nigeria of the 21st century - like the Ajaokuta Steel Industry and Itakpe Iron Ore Mining Company that are the veritable God-given generational fertile grounds located in Kogi Central Senatorial District which should in addition attract human capital and capacity development plus other sundry benefits to our long suffering population who are today a far cry from where they ought to be in the economic context of modern Nigeria. We have the power and capacity to revoke this obnoxious cyclical generational curse which has repeatedly blindfolded us from the bigger socio-economic and political picture by deliberate self re-evaluation of our strategic advantages by choosing to sow the good seed we have in our hands in this evolving seasons of political contemplation which is full of barefaced diabolical deceit.
A good product does not need hard marketing. We must make the choice to shun playing to the gallery of primordial class or gender sentiments now, by allowing who our Senatorial cap fits to wear it. It will not only be the right motivation for the sustenance of a laudable job but a reward for merit and patriotism.
My opinion is not just about Barr. Natasha Akpoti as a person but about the selfless institution she has personified as an a daughter of our land and her unquestionable sacrificial, intellectual and patriotic ideals.
This write up is borne of a patriotic spirit and an independent objective opinion devoid of hypocrisy and any subjective underhand.
(My personal stakeholder opinions as a worried bonafide Anebira)
The scenario that played out during the famous struggle for the creation of Kogi State that was significantly spearheaded by two prominent patriotic Anebira sons Gen Salihu Ibrahim and IGP Aliyu Attah decades back, during the IBB military junta which events many are too familiar with, is ultimately trying to play out again before our very eyes, this time in a democratic dispensation.
I hate to believe that certain forces in the land are again contemplating to work against the collective aspirations of Anebira to push a consensus candidate for the Kogi State Central Senatorial District for 2019 for the constituency's Senatorial seat at the Parliament on the ruling Party platform in the person of our illustrious learned daughter Barr. Natasha Hadiza Akpoti who symbolizes the consistent voice for the resuscitation of the moribund Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State.
Our ancestral heritage as agrarian Anebira are famous for sowing their best seeds on fertile grounds for bountiful yield which stand them out throughout the farming communities across our Nation. What has happened to this popular heritage - why do we keep recycling seeds that only compounds the political fortunes of our erstwhile famous Constituency?
In this representative dispensation the upper parliament remains the ideal fertile ground to sow quality seeds and we undoubtedly have the good seed in Barr. Natasha Hadiza Akpoti who on her own has proven to have been tested and trusted over time to project the utmost best interests of the average young and old Anebira including the vulnerable. Why in Heaven's name therefore should any Anebira want to settle for imitation when the Almighty God has squarely placed original in our faithful hands? Many would want to say it's about politics but a hypothetic question before the people is why we must continue to play politics with every rare opportunity that God thrusts in our hands to rewrite our chequered history, why is it that we seem to prefer to constantly groan under unending yoke of social and political subservience in the nation?
The Scripture puts it in the most succinct words "To Sow Your Seeds on Fertile Ground..."
A fertile ground that is devoid of cankerworms that will attract life to the most sought after industries in the land in Nigeria of the 21st century - like the Ajaokuta Steel Industry and Itakpe Iron Ore Mining Company that are the veritable God-given generational fertile grounds located in Kogi Central Senatorial District which should in addition attract human capital and capacity development plus other sundry benefits to our long suffering population who are today a far cry from where they ought to be in the economic context of modern Nigeria. We have the power and capacity to revoke this obnoxious cyclical generational curse which has repeatedly blindfolded us from the bigger socio-economic and political picture by deliberate self re-evaluation of our strategic advantages by choosing to sow the good seed we have in our hands in this evolving seasons of political contemplation which is full of barefaced diabolical deceit.
A good product does not need hard marketing. We must make the choice to shun playing to the gallery of primordial class or gender sentiments now, by allowing who our Senatorial cap fits to wear it. It will not only be the right motivation for the sustenance of a laudable job but a reward for merit and patriotism.
My opinion is not just about Barr. Natasha Akpoti as a person but about the selfless institution she has personified as an a daughter of our land and her unquestionable sacrificial, intellectual and patriotic ideals.
This write up is borne of a patriotic spirit and an independent objective opinion devoid of hypocrisy and any subjective underhand.
(My personal stakeholder opinions as a worried bonafide Anebira)
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