By A. S. M. Jimoh
The
Kogi state gubernatorial election has come and gone, but the controversy that
trailed it has refused to die. The whole scenario of the election has taught us
important lessons. It has shown that power truly belongs to God, a cliché often
use by our politician but never live by it. Secondly, our effort alone can
never earn us our goal. We need a touch of the Divine.
*Yahaya Bello
While
there are losses, angers, victories and jubilations, the man who smiles most is
one young Alhaji Yahaya Bello, born approximately forty years ago. Following
the death of Alhaji Audu Abubakar, him being the runner-up in the primary was
picked by the party through constitutional provision to be Audu’s replacement.
He is now the Governor-elect. If Allah wills, he will take the mantle of
leadership of Kogi state on the 27th of January 2016.
Because
of the triviality and complexity that surround Kogi politics, he will be
navigating a very turbulent water. He will be faced by ethnic distrust and a
comatose state with nothing to show in term of infrastructure and other indices
of development. Nevertheless, if he has the mettle, he will sail through the
troubled water to safety unscathed. For a man who deployed enormous resources
to campaign, make promises, went to primary and finally winning the
governorship, it is assumed that he has the vision to lead the state out of its
current direction to an intensive care unit. But recent history has shown that
many our politicians only invest in campaign, make promises, pretend a vision
and when he/she wins, he/she turns out to be worse than a highway armed-robber
and a pillaging army. Alhaji Yahaya Bello must show he is different.
