The year 2023 must be the turning point of Nigeria for the rudderneship of Nigeria to ever sail. The magic year MUST, i repeat MUST be the time to commence the return of Nigeria back to sanity, be momentous in the political annals of the geographic space called Nigeria. That year must usher the very best of the freshness in the body politics.
The Nigeria political landscape is today is heavily stultified by spent forces, age-shackled gerontocrats and crass opportunists. That magic year should instill in Nigeria immense proportion and this provokes the song that ran through the length and breadth of the country to wake the aborted foetus of the third republic it rang thus:
Is on the march again(2ce)
Looking for Mr. President is on the march
again………is our man ooo.
The missing lyric is deliberate because the realisation of the collective aspiration of democracy by hungry Nigerians was headed of by meritocratic and opportunistic individuals. This time is must not be so the march this time, looking for Mr. President must succeed irrespective of the foul mood of the reactionary upper crust polity and the frenetic gusto urge of those currently holding the country hostage.
A critical survey of those showing interest in the presidency leaves much to be desired except that some freshness is being scented in the person the incumbent governor of Kogi state Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello. If not for this all hopes would have been hanging in balance.
At the present, Yahaya Bello is one personality that bookmarks would love to bait. Why? For reasons if his age, antecedents and what he has been able to achieve since he mounted the Kogi state saddle.
What agitated Yahaya Bello’s mind to run for the governorship of Kogi state back then is not the issue here. But that he did it against what looked like an insurmountable at that time coasted home to Lord Lugard’s house in Lokoja Kogi state capital tells of a man of immense destiny.
Forces were arrayed against him within and without his political spheres. He surmounted them all he brought his youthfulness audacity and sagacity in bear in running the state many people would be prone to look down on his age. One thing that looks like youthful exuberance was when he engineered a fierce crackdown on criminal elements in the state ordering the demolition of even the ancestral home of proven criminals and forfeiture of their landed properties to the state. Drastic isn’t it? But yet it bespoke of a man with zero tolerance for criminality. If the present national leadership has paid heed and borrowed a leaf from that unique effort to rid his state of criminal elements the county wouldn’t have engulfed in crass insecurity as has been worsening the situation now.
Sagacity was played out when the governor was given herculean role in his political party’s membership drive and it’s a revalidation of his teeming faithful. He went on with all vigor and adding unequal innovation.
He galvanized the youth of his community to robust patriotic activities, though resisted by his political party. It portrays a man of ideas who can be trusted with more national assignments he did not sit back in his office, ordering people around. Rather he picked the gauntlet and running as it were.
A vivacious man of verifiable integrity ensconced in his presidential palace, abandoning statecraft to voracious power mongers disserving cronies and cabal of low morals and putrid integrity. It could therefore be said that a man as young as Yahaya, in the Aso rock villa Nigeria will bid a lasting bye, and not the good one to leadership cloning and hijack of the presidential office. No pushing around no godfatherism, bizarre egocentric and ethnic bigotry. Yes, no religion will brazenly be displayed at the center, a thing that has fueled rapid separatist agitation that is currently driving Nigeria mad. It would be goodbye to robotism and barefaced nepotism.
This freshness is needed in the post-2023 years the search for the right person should begin now. Most needed is the person who will always be in touch with realities on the ground.
So far Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello seems to be that person Nigeria should be waiting for in 2023 ipsofacto. Much needed is that leader that would engineer that much-needed restoration, bring in a new era of refreshments and confer dignities of the populace.
The youth need one of their own to motivate and galvanize them awaken them in their healthy patriotism and give them a good sense if belonging.
Yahaya Bello falls in the best demographic sphere of the country being middle-aged the upper crust has had its member fill. They have come they have seen and have been heard been roundly worsted on the theatre of statesmanship. Never should this class be allowed to misgovern, mismanage and misrepresent the much larger class of Nigerians. The lowers crust from 30 years downward are yet to learn the rope by the vampires in government. So the lot falls in Yahaya Bello’s demographic section, and of this, the Kogite is the torchbearer.
From May 29th, 2023 the cabal that usually holds the presidents captive, supplanting them in the real act
of governance would have exited the statehouse with palpable ignominy. It faceless members would have come to their nightmarish end.
More in the Yahaya Bello demographic group may show more than passing interest in the Aso Rock plum job. Yet, they will still queue behind the man of magic year Yahaya. The post-May 29th 2023 belongs to the middle-aged man or woman. Anyone with pecuniary interest aspiring the office with pecuniary motive having lined or still lining their filthy pockets as a result of having pocketed their previous sphere of influence in the country, should have no-repeat or otherwise such will go for the jugular of the country’s economy.
And this should serve as a lesson to the likes of our future leaders. They must have an impeccable record of sterling service to their people. Definitely not those who defy themselves waiting like vultures to decadent Nigeria. Not tin gods, godfathers, appropriators of political offices. Let the erstwhile gubernatorial thieves continue basking in their ill-gotten wealth and forget the ruinous idea of extending their frontiers and tentacles to the entire country.