INEC Delineation Shall Cause War In Kogi State

I understand that the Kogi East felt their population is too large for just one senatorial district or carrying excess luggage, therefore they intend to shed the weight. They intend to do that by taking some of their LGAs to add to the central district. I don’t know if they have cared to see the constitutional rationality and ethnic sovereignty behind the arrangement. That in every state there is always the three senatorial districts.

Kano State with about 40 LGAs has three senatorial districts. If Kogi East are said to be 1.4 million people, Kogi Central with 928,000 people and Kogi West is 906,000, if they now wish to add Dekina and Bassa LGAs to the central, that now gives the central 1.329m people with the East left with 1.078m.

To start with this, is there any justification? Is there any justice in what they wish to do? In doing this, it clearly shows that there are ulterior motive behind it. Now, you have increased central and have decreased your own, to the extent that Kogi East would become second in terms of size and population among the 3 senatorial districts.

Has it become an issue of loving one else than yourself? This tells that there is something sinister behind it and needs to be checked. It doesn’t make any sense. And it is unacceptable; I do not see the rational behind it. Knowing very well that a situation like that would bring about disruption of peace. It is not just unacceptable, it is untenable, and indeed, it would bring about ethnic crisis.

The people you are talking about share a natural boundary which is the River Niger standing between them. Ajaokuta is in Kogi Central. It has been part of Ebiraland. Asking Bassa to cross the river to form a federal constituency with Ajaokuta is inherently evil. Asking both Bassa and Dekima to cross to the central does not make any damn sense. I think it is a stupid thing to even contemplate. Not only that, it is evil, because it is designed to breed intra-tribal crisis. People have already enough problems for themselves, you now wish to add more to it. The irrationality of it stem from the fact that the West has 906,000 against the central with 928,000. If they wish to trim their size, if actually it is exactly, why the central in this instance? Why do you take on the central? It is easier to contemplate adding Bassa with Lokoja or Koton Karfe, why Ajaokuta, if the idea is not borne out of sheer avarice? I don’t know who conceived this, but I do know that the concept is evil, satanic, demonic, false and fraudulent. I don’t think anybody would want to settle for any crisis. I know that there is a very strong determination among our people to fight this to the last drop of their blood.

I want to say, I will encourage it! Let the law or whatever catches up with me thereafter. I will encourage this fight for our right at any price, without looking back. read more...