Next Kogi Assembly Will Be Dominated By ‘Products Of Bullets’
These are not best of times for the people of Kogi State. The outcome of the just concluded House of Assembly elections across the state leaves much to be desired. While we decried the present crop of lawmakers in Kogi State House of Assembly, the next crop (7th Assembly) might be the worst in the history of the confluence state.
Eighty percent of the lawmakers adjudged winners of the last elections by INEC are products of bullets, not ballot. Last Saturday elections was fraught with unprecedented irregularities ranging from ballot snatching, gun attacks on voters and outright falsification of results.
If the current set of lawmakers in the State Assembly failed to meet the yearnings of the people because of fear and lust for filthy lucre, what is our fate in the hands of the recently ‘selected’ candidates in the last election?
They will approve every and anything the executive push to them without thinking twice.
I read in Vanguard newspapers today where the revered Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan spoke about rigged elections. The Cardinal mince no words when he ruled that bad elections can never lead governance. I agree with him in totality but cringe at the expected output of Kogi state products of bullets. Can the incoming bullet-produced lawmakers make any difference in the State Assembly? I don’t need a seer to know that they are a disaster waiting to happen.
In the next Kogi Assembly, who will speak for the people? Who will make case for the unpaid civil servants and pensioners? Who will stand against the reckless propensity of the executive to plunge the state into eternal debts? Who will speak for the downtrodden? Who will speak for Kogites?
As we await the inauguration of these products of bullets in June, we must look inwards and create alternative platform that will speak for the people of Kogi state and provide alternative representation. Nothing good can come out of these products of bullets.
– Adamu Ojonugwa writes from Lokoja.
Eighty percent of the lawmakers adjudged winners of the last elections by INEC are products of bullets, not ballot. Last Saturday elections was fraught with unprecedented irregularities ranging from ballot snatching, gun attacks on voters and outright falsification of results.
If the current set of lawmakers in the State Assembly failed to meet the yearnings of the people because of fear and lust for filthy lucre, what is our fate in the hands of the recently ‘selected’ candidates in the last election?
They will approve every and anything the executive push to them without thinking twice.
I read in Vanguard newspapers today where the revered Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan spoke about rigged elections. The Cardinal mince no words when he ruled that bad elections can never lead governance. I agree with him in totality but cringe at the expected output of Kogi state products of bullets. Can the incoming bullet-produced lawmakers make any difference in the State Assembly? I don’t need a seer to know that they are a disaster waiting to happen.
In the next Kogi Assembly, who will speak for the people? Who will make case for the unpaid civil servants and pensioners? Who will stand against the reckless propensity of the executive to plunge the state into eternal debts? Who will speak for the downtrodden? Who will speak for Kogites?
As we await the inauguration of these products of bullets in June, we must look inwards and create alternative platform that will speak for the people of Kogi state and provide alternative representation. Nothing good can come out of these products of bullets.
– Adamu Ojonugwa writes from Lokoja.
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