How more frustrated can a Party that prides itself as the largest Party in Africa be? The Party has failed to lead a vibrant opposition having lost power at the centre some 6years ago. And the Party has become a rambunctious and rabble rousing entity shooting at everything like an age grade village union.
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP has failed to present before the nation a viable alternative blueprint which is the least a credible opposition party should do. Alas the Party suffering from the frustration of losing her leading lights to the All Progressive Congress APC in the past weeks, have chosen to walk deeper down the path of shame. Or how else can one describe the present outburst, diatribe, and ill-informed assessment of the Yahaya Adoza Bello watch over the State of Kogi?
Show me a PDP State and a PDP Governor that has handled Gender Issues like Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State? Kogi has the highest gender inclusiveness in the whole of Africa, second arguably to Rwanda, and that’s responsiveness and civilization in leadership. The PDP therefore erred in qualifying the Bello Watch as having taken Kogi State years back. Indeed Kogi State under Bello’s watch tops the chart in the United Nations assessment of States that comply with the Millenium Development Goals in Nigeria.
Show me a PDP State or Givernor that has managed Security issues like Yahaya Bello has done in Kogi. It is without equivocation that a State like Kogi State with 9 borders is yet the safest State in Nigeria. The truth is sacred and facts are Olympic, so the PDP must learn some honour by acknowledging that you cannot because of politics rubbish a record so evident as noon day. Knowing that the primary responsibility of government is the protection of lives and property, the House of Commotion called the PDP must cover her face in shame, and applaud the young man who has made his State the safest in Nigeria.
Show me a PDP State and Governor that has impacted the citizens in the area of Agriculture like Yahaya Bello has done? Indeed today one of the most functional Rice Mills in the Country is in Kogi State being fed with grains by Rice Farmers in and around the State. And evidently Kogi State tops the chart in the support of farmers in the Country, ask the Central Bank of Nigeria, the records are there.
Need we talk about Religious, Cultural and Ethnic harmony? Is the PDP aware that a multi ethnic, multi religious and a multi lingual State like Kogi tops the chart in peaceful coexistence in the Country? Does the PDP know that the inclusiveness in governance of the disparate ethnicities in Kogi dwarfs any other State in Nigeria? Does the PDP know that Kogi State has the highest level of Youth participation in leadership in Nigeria, and does the PDP know that the young men and women running Kogi State and doing profoundly are eggheads whose commitment to responsible and responsive leadership is second to none?
And does the PDP know that in this period of the Covid pandemic it is on record that Kogi State has generated more revenue and impacted her citizens better than most States in Nigeria because the young man Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello thinks outside the box.
The PDP and her fellow travelers on the path of mendacity must imbibe the ability for frank research, for the knack to poke a deep hole in the balloon of naysayers and purveyors of deceit and tommyrot is what stands out the Yahaya Bello Movement.
PDP and its image makers must therefore seek first to resolve the contradictions in the House of Commotion called the Peoples Democratic Party before seeking to deploy falsehood and perfidy as a tool in her failed effort at discharging the duties of an opposition Party. May these indelible words of Sir Walter Scott ‘O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive’ serve as reprimand to the kindergarten work of the PDP in opposition politics in Kogi State and at the Federal level.
Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr.
National Coordinator
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