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Attah Igala: Another mistep?
It will appear that some people are bent on disgracing the Igala race. A race with established civilization of culture, politics, tradition and history.
Reliable and credible information coming from the Igala Area Traditional Council indicates that efforts by some eternally self centred Chiefs to discredit the good image and reputation of the Acting Chairman of the council of Chiefs.
Recall that following the complaints and criticisms that greeted the first selection proceess undertaken by the well discredited Etemahi, the Area traditional council constituted a panel of six to evaluate the Etemahi’s report.
That was a very good and credible step to restoring justice and fairness to the process. The Chairman, HRH Chief Boniface Musa and Secretary Daikwo were hailed and commended as honest and credible Igala Chiefs.
The panel met took evidences, asked vital questions, recorded written and oral submissions from the candidates and interacted with the candidates.
It is a fact that there is a report of the proceedings, which carefully followed the critical provisions of the appointment process.
Insider details indicate that two chiefs unequivocally stated that they won’t be bribed.
For those two we are proud of you. But three others and their scribes, decided to put the selection process to a vote.
Selection of an Attah subjected to money induced votes, not law and tradition.
Is there a valid nomination from the lineage whose turn it is to rule?
Simply put which candidate was nominated by the Ajuameachor ruling house- in line with the law, culture and tradition? That question was answered at the panel.
Only one candidate was chosen at a public meeting of the ruling house, where all the contesting candidates were screened and interviewed according to tradition.
The chosen candidate according to the law and tradition is the eldest among the candidates.
He is not incapcitated obviously as he drove himself to the panel sitting and consciously read and write in full public glare.
Subterfuge.
It will appear from the above that this is a simple process, easily concluded, and so it was untill as widely reported a certain ‘Gowon’ whose credibility has always been in the mud allegedly surfaced on the scene with bag loads of money allegedly delivered by an ambitious young man called ‘Muri’ whose hope to be Governor of Kogi is predicated on acquiring and installing an Attah Igala as stooge. God forbid.
This new development will obviously stall the process of enthroning a new Attah’ Igala kingdom predicated on an unknown person’s ambition and to rubbish the rigorous process and the expectations of a well thought out arrangement by the state government in line with the gazzeted procedure.
For the process of selection of the new reverred Attah Igala locked on the ambition of an opportunist both at the corridor of power and leadership will be a glaring undoing to the Igala kingdom.
But, since the governor had insisted on due process with advice from his predecessors and the traditional council/panel, in line with due process, it is going to be an exercise in futility as he will not compromise the existing peace, stability, securtiy of lives and properties on the altar of an individual novice’s political adventure.
The joy is that the Governor is not unaware of the process, procedures including the law and tradition guiding each areas, as he successfully did it in one of the major languages in the state, stabilised an existing crisis that was subjected to litigation in his area, among many others.
So anybody thinking otherwise to misinform and hijack the process to the new political sherrif in town, will not pass the test of the desire of the state government to install the right person as the Attah of Igala kingdom.
Going to Court
As it stands, the Igala people and indeed the Kogi State government must stand up for justice and fairness. If any iota of the well laid provisions is manipulated, then the courts will decide.
We have a strong conviction that the State government is not by any strings swayed from the due process embarked upon as directed when the process started.
As a leader who believed strongly in fairness, equity, justice and fair play, he is not expected to succumb to detractors and ill advisers who are bent on using every opportunity to bring down his administration, using Attah Igala scenario as a credible example when succeeded.
This is a combination and grand plan within and outside the corridor of power, whose wizardry to dispense their newly found fortune to alter the age long Igala kingdom tradition cocooned to their inordinate ambition.
May we save ourselves from shame.
Achema Achegbulu writes from Umomi, Ofu Local Government, Kogi State.
I have been watching with keen interest the evolving political drama, drama, yes, I call it drama, in Kogi State and where the season film is going and when it will end. Many a time, the gladiators in the state throw brick bats at one another and in the process, the pebbles hit innocent standby constituents.
Of particular worrisome trend is the recent outburst by the Senator representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan accusing, Honourable Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, the honourable Minister of Steel Development of low performance, the accusation that is uncalled for and to say the least, unwarranted.
Not only that, the Senator also accused the Minister of veering into the areas that are not directly under his supervision. She mischievously advised the Honourable Minister to limit and concentrate himself more on wooing foreign and local investors in the area of steel development and utilization, citing Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mills as an example.
The Senator also deliberately forgot that there should and must be synergy between the ministry and all the agencies under it. if she still does not know this, she should go for orientation or briefs on her legislative matters vis a vis her oversight functions.
If the Senator does not know, let her be told that the Hon. Minister is a polished politician and a seasoned technocrat who has brought into the fore his vast background in life in the way and manner he has been discharging his duties as a minister holding one of the most sensitive ministries in the country.
Before the Senator graduates and bags her Pull Him Down Syndrome (PHD) from the University of Malice and Hate, she should know that the lane she is travelling in her political journey is not profitable nor rewarding at all. Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu is a forward looking Nigerian who would not want to be distracted from his professed determination to leave his job better than, he met it.
We have heard enough political mayhem in Kogi in recent past, let no one foist another crisis on the state through reckless, unrefined, and putrid comments. It will be recalled that mid last year, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did a minor reshuffle in his cabinet, the President found the Honourable Minister fit and proper just as he was given a clean bill to continue with his good job in the ministry.
As the year 2027 inches by, Senator Natasha should for goodness sake stay on her lane and stop meandering into other lanes in order to keep Kogi clean of clashes. Not only this, she should train her tongue to avoid unnecessary vituperation. It should be noted as well that nobody has monopoly of verbal attack against other people, let the Senator check herself so that she will not be getting stones back as she throws pebbles.
A word is enough for the wise.
Concerned people and leaders of thought in Kogi State should call the Senator to order. It is high time she knew that Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu is a tree planted by the Almighty Allah that cannot be uprooted by any mortal. political differences or affiliations must not blindfold individuals from reality on ground.
Fading politicians who don’t have reputation must not besmear those who have pretty pedigree and want to keep it.
Musa Wada, a public affairs analyst sent this piece from Abuja
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Open letter to the Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ahmed Ododo Usman over achievements in one year
I am writing this open letter to you to commend you for your excellent performances so far in your short stay in office as the governor of our dear state. Indeed your performance so far has vindicated those of us who even before your assumption of office stayed true to our believe that you are our best foot forward to make our state greater.
You have not disappointed us so far because even your greatest critics and political opponents would not disagree with the majority views in the state that indeed Kogi state is working. Your leadership has brought within a short time to the state developments in all its physicality. I can say with pride that your administration is now regarded as the end to an era of bad governance to the beginning of an era where the people count first and this is justified by your policies and programmes implemented to bring succour to our people. The prompt payments of salaries and pensions to civil servants and retirees of the state government and your social welfare targeted at making the aged live comfortably in their old age and your programmes for youth development are a testament that your administration is for the people,by the people and of the people of Kogi state.
I commend you for making sure that peace justice and development is not an exclusive development for any particular zone of the state but for all. I want you to continue in your great effort of uniting our state with your all inclusive deliverance of democratic dividends to all the parts of the state this is because in history no state has achieved sustainable development without a leader with vision,strategic plan and compassion for all its people.
We have seen so far that your administration is the very testament to the type of leadership we have all yearned for in the state. I commend you also for not going after any political opponent because you know that your performance will indeed silence them all and I believe you shall overcome because a pessimist is a well informed optimist.
Thank you for giving us the hope that our state is going to be great again under your administration. We are confident that going forward more developments will come to our state by your inspiring leadership.
Long live the governor of Kogi state.
Long live Kogi state,
Long live the Federal republic of Nigeria.
Hon John Lawal
Coordinator Tinubu support team
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OPEN LETTER TO THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF SPECIAL DUTIES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMENDING HIM FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AND STERLING LEADERSHIP QUALITIES IN OFFICE IN THE LAST ONE YEAR
We are writing this open letter to you patriotically commending you for your excellent performances and your sterling leadership qualities which has transformed and reformed your Ministry by changing its narratives for the best in the last one year of your tenure as the Minister of special duties and intergovernmental Affairs.
We have in our determination to peer review the performances of the appointees of our renewed hope President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu especially the Minister’s found your leadership of the Ministry so inspiring because it translated into making the Ministry one of the best ran Ministries, departments and agencies of government in this dispensation for which we are very proud. We also commend you for not blowing your trumpet but instead allowing your work to speak for you in all its ramifications. The agencies and departments under your Ministry are now known to be working assiduously in fulfilling it’s mandates by the launching of the strategic plans document which is already by your body language and leadership being implemented religiously.
You are indeed the pride of your people, the Gbagi’s nation in the political scene because you have shown that your leadership and political leitmotives is to work hard at all time to bring about positive changes in your areas of authority and this is exemplified by the performance of the National lottery trust fund which is now visible in the lives of the citizens by it’s excellent interventions in critical areas of needs in all part of the country, the Nigerian lottery regulatory commission which is working very hard in the issuances of licenses to deserving agents thereby increasing the revenue to the federal government from the proceeds of gaming and the National lottery trust fund that is today a strong institutions regulating the lottery sector of the country.
We commend you for your leadership which deals in hope.
Finally, going forward we are assured of more excellent performances from you especially as in this part of the world it is known that “the day that would be good is known from it’s mornings”. Your performance so far has justified the reason why our President who is known to be a great recruiter of leaders recruited you for this assignment. We thank you for being your people’s pride. Accept our congratulations.
Yours sincerely
Hon John Lawal
Coordinator Tinubu support team
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