By Joseph Ozigis Akomodi, PhD
I had vowed to keep mute about Nigerian issues especially Kogi State because many of Kogi’s central citizens, particularly my brothers and sisters of Ebira descent, refused to use their God-given brains! Ebira, by its name, when I was growing up, were people of good character. But we have sold our character and our good name for nothing just in the name of seeking crumbs from the table of the so-called leaders.
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is not a saint so also many of us. As a senator, she has done well in representing Kogi Central in all ramifications. Her big mistake was clamouring around the party in control which happened to be APC (All Progressives Congress) while neglecting the base that propelled her to the victory ground of the Red Chamber.
She deserted many of her supporters who were ready to sacrifice themselves as a sacrificial lamb to ensure she became the beacon of lights that electrified the entire Nigeria. You can disagree with your supporters, but when such disagreement resulted in cutting them off was a bad judgment on her part.
Those vagabonds in the APC noticed all that was happening around her, they decided to go even closer to her as if they were friends. The Secretary General of the former Soviet Union, Michail Gorbachev, once said to President Regan “Trust but verify.” If Natasha could recall that I once told her the same APC party that was trying to reconcile her with Bello, I told her then it was a set-up! She assured me that it was real, and I was right. She went to Kogi State to have a photo with the then governor of Kogi Yahaya Bello who promised her and Bombom that she would sponsor her for LLM at Columbia University in New York which resulted to be fake promises.
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan burned down the bridges of her supporters who genuinely sacrificed their lives to ensure her senatorial mandate from Kogi State is preserved. Some of those supporters were killed, and some went to jail because they were tired of the promises of good leadership which always turned out to be a deceit from those so-called half-baked politicians in Kogi State.
That singular action made her vulnerable to the blood-tasty vagabonds of APC. The supporters were in turn called by APC supporters as “block Industry.” You cannot build a house in the air without a proper foundation. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan ignored her powerful base to wine and dine with the evil people of Nigeria.
The issue of Senator Natasha with Senate President Akpabio is just a cover-up. What right do senators have to suspend another senator for six months instead of two weeks that was stipulated in the Constitution? Senator Natasha decided to fall into their trap because those who would have guided and rubbed her mind together with her to strategise were all discarded.
When Yahaya Bello placed Oseni as senator to be a bench warmer I knew then that Bello was strategising to have someone at the Senate chamber that he could remove at will. Later, he was placed there to be the next bench warmer just holding the Senate seat for himself after his tour of duty as a governor was over. All the saga that is happening right now was orchestrated by Yahaya Bello and Senate President Akpabio.
As for Senator Natasha, I am borrowing the word of Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union, “Trust but verify.” Your lack of verification is what is causing you all this political insanity right now. My mother, of a blessed memory, always said when you want to eat with evil people always eat with a long spoon so that you are aware of what is happening around you.
Strong Warning TO Governor Ododo of Kogi State:
Since your immersion into the power equilibrium of Kogi State, I have not one’s criticised you even though you were placed in power as a stooge by ex-governor Yahaya Bello. There is no way a recall of the senator of Kogi Central could happen without your approval as a sitting governor of Kogi State. All the planning you and ex-governor Yahaya Bello and Akpabio planned to recall Senator Natasha by staging a deceitful recall asking people to bring their voters’ cards for empowerment is noted.
If you think that Senator Natasha is fragile and all her ardent supporters have been placed in the “block industry” and you are using such fragility to stage her recall, I am warning you that I will be coming on your head. The grace period I have given you will be withdrawn with immediate effect. Are you staging this recall to install your master Yahaya Bello as the senator of Kogi State because he could not wait for the election to happen to rig it again! The one-year Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has spent in the red Chamber has brought value to the Senate Chamber. Your plan is invalid. You must retract with immediate effect.
Lastly, all Anebira who are deceived by the proxy Governor Ododo and Yahaya Bello including Akpabio, the Senate President, should be prosecuted in the court system for carrying Ghana-Must-Go bags full of money to recall Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Senate President Akpabio’s meddling with the Kogi issue is a ground for him to be impeached as a Senate President. Senator Natasha was given the mandate by the citizens of Kogi Central after her election was stolen by former Governor Yahaya Bello. THIS IS A STRONG WARNING!!
•Joseph Ozigis Akomodi, PhD is based in New York, United States of America.
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