“Your liberty will not be freely given to you. You must be bold to liberate yourself ”
The liberation journey to the destination of progressive development is of age in Kwara state .
The minds of many Kwaran is for the liberation movement to take the course of a workable plan that will lead the state into a considerable development that will differ from the exploitation of this long hegemony.
In honest, the people of Kwara are mostly tired of the gruesome leadership in the past years that has brought untold hardship, hunger, penury and prejudices to our state.
Today , the coast is becoming more clearer as many people , old and young, men and women joining in the lead to salvage and rescue of the future in the state from crumbling.
As election come closer , the tormentor dynasty is doing everything possible to distort and divide the minds of Kwarans in there bid for salvation.
The journey to Kwara government office is never an easy task at all, the underground works of the dynasty to cause confusion in the opposition APC in the state is becoming more glaring and there desperation is becoming more worrisome.
In Kwara, there exited three senatorial zones, the Kwara north, Kwara south and Kwara central. Both Kwara central and Kwara south had enjoyed the governor seat in Kwara state living only Kwara north since inception of democracy in 1999.
The many agitation coming from Kwara north today is for the people of Kwara state to zone automatically the governotorial tickets of all the parties to Kwara north , hopefully, for them having sense of belonging and brotherliness.
This is legitimate agitation and fair request from the people of Kwara north. The morality attached to zoning is loud and clear, it is for our sense of belonging , fairness and equality.
However, when zoning is in contradiction with legitimacy and in discordant with the liberation movement; the other way round will be fair.
As we can’t afford to loose the fight today and all of us should be ready to sacrifice for the liberation of our dear state without thinking sentiments and religion.
We all can’t afford to sacrifice zoning for mediocrity , intelligent for loyalism, courage and merit for undue selfishness.
For my people in Kwara north, we had suffered undue negligent from Kwara government, our people are mostly in agony and pains for the negligent we suffers. Many of our representatives are legitimately in discord with our problems;
Government office holders in Kwara north forget there people , they are more loyal to the asymptomatic dynasty deal than the plight of there people.
Many of them stay out of there constituency for the fear of there ordeals. They run off there responsibilities just to pay there political loyalism when one keep to wonder’s where there loyalty reside, to there people or to there leaders
Please where is the sacrifice here? our people in Kwara north continues to pay hard for our moral support and loyalism; No, no , no , never again shall we allow our loyalty override our intelligent.
Kwara of today need a powerful governor with lots of resilient and doggedness, intelligent and calculations, fearlessness and stability, and in all the fear of God and the love of our dear people.
The person with this qualities can come from any zone; the person can come from any tribe and we are fully ready support him.
We don’t need any candidate with any romance with the deadly dynasty that hold us to ransom for long. We need a neutral candidate with age long love for the development of Kwara.
Someone with the passion to pursue with courage our lost glories. A dogged and courageous candidate that can reclaim our lost patrimonies, our stolen lands and properties; monies and heritage must be reclaimed.
We have many candidates with many divergent qualities that can merge with our problems. But at this time, Kwara political problems are diabolical, asymptomatic and contradictory.
We need an all encompassing curative measure to get it right.
Though i may be wrong , but many may see the fairness in this my simple analogy. If Kwara central have the higher percentage of voters in Kwara state; will it not be logical to place a formidable candidate with less contradiction from Kwara central to face the fight with the PDP candidate for governorship ?
The APC must get it right at this time ; the Kwara central people should be allow to choose from one of there best if they need to sacrifice the dynasty which is one of them for long and the only tormentor we all target to get ride of.
If they will sacrifice the control of the old dynasty hegemony, at least, logically they will want to sacrifice only with there vote if the APC candidate is from Kwara central. What they need is just a change of power shift.
The APC candidate should not be a candidate with any link with the old hegemony ; at least many Kwarans will be encouraged to vote for such person. Even a Kwara northerner like me if all is to sacrifice for our state and i know many of our people will think to this part.
It is again historical that the hegemonic dynasty is firmly in liaise with federal mights any time election is closer. Even the old late leader is said to be in friendship with the federal government any time election come close. Unlike the younger leader whose ego and garrulous prides send him to partial extinction with federal government of recently.
In essence, we need a candidate with federal connections to defeat the hegemonic dynasty. No one should be allow to stole our peoples mandate again and every vote should count; there should be no rigging and intimidation at this time again.
Having take many of my analysis into consideration ; i have stopped at choosing the candidate that fitted into my assertions. I have not meet many of this aspirants before, i have only meet with Alh Tajudeen Audu , Prof Abu Abdulraheem as my VC then and Alh Abdullahi Yaman in Kaima long ago.
But to the greatest choice of many and consonant to my analogy, i have choose to stand with the NBC man, Mallam Ishaq Lanre Kawu ;
He is one of my mentor for long since his days as newscaster ; i have followed him diligently for long, his fearless writeup on the decadence in Kwara state is fantastic . He as been writing on the failures in Kwara state government even when many are not talking.
Many of his work directly shows his pain for the cheats of his people. He is legendary in the love for the people of Kwara and the state. He is again not for any time in a relationship with hegemony dynasty. He is ideological differences with them, I even learnt the ideological fight and differences predates both there fathers .
I watched many people discussed about him with passion and many given reasons why he is the best at this time.
He is dogged, fearless, incorruptible, intelligence, organized, fluent and connected at this time. With his connection in NBC, at least one can reckoned with him for now.
Watching his composure on the news the other time boosted my love for him, he speak confidently and fluently on his works and achievements in NBC to the admonition of many journalist.
He is indeed an achiever, a well articulate and dynamic man.
Reading from one of his campaign speech the other time, Modibbo is the only candidate that has recognised the development of kwara north as the viable platform for a sustainable social and economical development of kwara state .
He has a comprehensive development plan from kwara north, his understanding on how to reintegrate kwara north to the the other parts of kwara state is superb.
I read from his intelligent presentation how he gave a well resourceful plan on the way to fix Bode Sadu Kiama, Shonga road and invest on cultural heritage of kwara north even when he claimed not have just few of his numerous plan for the kwara north in the write up.
I was made to know in our discussions with a friend from Offa how he used his office as NBC boss to lobby for the approval of more than three Radio licences for kwara north. The process is at the final stage for approval.
And he is instrumental to many radio stations available now in the state .
His achievement so far in the digital switchover projects across Nigeria is commendable and appreciated even with his short stay in office.
In all, his incorruptibility is uniquely magnificent at this time where corruption is our great problem. Then we can be rest assure that our patrimonies and properties in Kwara is in a saved hand. I still think he is the best at this time.
Hauwa Shuibu Baba write from Kaima.
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