Open Letter to Kogi APC Delegates and Party Leader(s).

This open letter has become pertinent as present experience have left us incheck of how our internal party system has been, especially with the quality of Representatives we have been opportuned to produce and the results they have been able boast over their terms in office. 

The youths of kOgi state most especially, the Kogi central and specifically the youths of Okene/Ogori Magongo Federal constituency has deem it fit to air their opinions, on the forthcoming APC primaries that will produce our various party flagbearers going into the general election next year Feb as INEC timetable has postulated.

The last 3-4 years of our national Assembly members in the upper and lower chamber and how they have mediocritically brought abysmal results and throw away people oriented programs and policies has forced us to reminiscent on how our representative at the national levels were produced by our dear party. 

There is no gainsaying that our esteemed youths have shown uttermost love and loyalty to the party and deserve better governance and peopple oriented representation but most of the youths bit their hands when they see what other Representative from other states are delivering to their constituents while we see outrageant package of 5,000- 20,000 as youth empowerment and developmental programs. We don't deserve this insults and will like to see the genesis of this poor representation and there by tackle such from the root.

We have conscientiously noticed that our Representative members are not actually the people demand candidate(s), but party imposed candidate for whatever reason we don't know but we have to show our loyalty by respecting party decision, to support, canvas and pull votes for them. Some of these people were products of clannish Political settlement, families appeasing candidates, friends and loyalist candidate of party leader(s). They inturn do not have the people in mind, do not strive to appease the general electorate but appease their families,clan and give back to their boss only. When jobs are available, only their families benefit, when they have won elections, they abandoned the people and move completely with their families to Abuja loosing total touch with the grassroots. Constituency projects are done on papers while the funds diverted for personal aggrandisement.

We youths cannot and will not tolerate this societal retrogressive representation. 

We deserve a quality representation and as party members and loyalists, we call on all delegates and party leader(s) to shun every form of inimical process that produce such failures in National Assembly. 

We are glad money bags Politics has reduced drastically in Kogi state, kudos to our party leaders, we must also shun other vices that produces candidate not in tandem with electorate,party supporters plight.

The youths have had lots of meetings in recent times and we have acknowledged that though we have little or no input in choosing our candidates but we have the right and opportunity to drive our case by means of protest votes against any candidate that is not People demanded. We are the polling units foot soldiers who canvass from house to house, who beg electorates who have lost confidence in coming out to vote to do so for our sake as we churned out promises on behalf of our party, we risk our lives against opposition threats and even physical assault, we are the one who stand to protect votes and make sure they are submitted accurately, most of us loose vital items like, phones, wristwatch, money while doing all this. We won't tolerate any party candidate that have forgotten us in their past tenure in NASS, we shall resist them if they find their way to the INEC ballot papers, we will stand against them before, during and after election if any action is taken to maneuver our choice (By God grace) with digital evidence where necessary.

The party delegates and Leaders should not see this open letter as a threat but call to do the right thing, a call to listen to the people of their choice, a call to orient our candidates that we are important to them before and after electioneering period, a call to give the youths listening ears.

We hope for the best as we go into the party primaries, we hope we have good NASS Reps and senate who can fascilitate projects back to their constituency, who can go all the way to get more slots of jobs for our youths, who will not sell constituency projects to make money for himself alone, who is eloquent, sociable to get other honourable colleagues support for the benefits of our people, who is well educated and can bring about policies that have positive impact on the people, who can always rise on the floor of the national assembly and air our view, who will always come home to get his people opinion about national issues and present same as a true representative of the people. We hope to have the people oriented candidates, we hope our party flag the people demand and we hope to come out victorious and have a quality representation.

Long Live Our youths

Long Live Our Delegates

Long Live Our party Leader(s)

Long live our APC

Victory is Ours 2023

From Top To Bottom

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Solace Omolaiye

For concerned citizens