There have been deliberate attempts to mislead the people of southern Kaduna by its own folks, and to think that some of their pastors, professors, and supposedly educated and enlightened youths would become willing accomplices and form part of an orchestrated macabre dance in a march to political golgotha for a region desperately in need of mainstream political participation, is quite as shocking as it is disheartening.
I have been on a tour of the 23 LGAs of the state, and there’s nowhere in the north the LP or Asake’s support is reaching new heights, and with about three weeks left to the conduct of the governorship election, your guess would be as good as mine.
The fact is, Asake will definitely lose the governorship election, and the reason is simple; while he no doubt has the capacity to superintend over the affairs of this state, regrettably, he started late, almost an afterthought, and lacks the structure and plan to stage an upset up north. Even in Southern Kaduna, apart from trying to use religious and ethnic sentiments to mislead and deceive the people, his team has no other strategy potent enough to convince anyone that he’s the candidate needed at this time. To be honest, sometimes you need to be reminded that he is a candidate because of his near total absence.
If our people do not see election/politics as a game, and develop the right strategy, skills and teamwork to win, but always have to wait for every election cycle then come up with emergency interventions like the one of Asake, WE WILL NEVER WIN. Take it or leave it. And we will be the worse for it, holding the short end of the stick
The governorship election, therefore, like the presidential, would be won by either the PDP or APC, and the victory of the APC, should it win, will be determined majorly by the amount of votes Nigerians/our people decide to waste on the Labour Party. Most of the people leading the ignorant in this grand deception know the truth but for pecuniary benefits they keep on with the deception. God forbid that they succeed at it!
Meanwhile, let Asake and his army of largely naive and emergency interventionists have the courage to admit it, after the elections, that their naivety and or mischief nearly cost us the victory of the PDP or opened the room for the victory of the APC in the state. Either way, we will discuss it after the elections, as it appears they are bent on going ahead with the grand scheme of misleading the people. At this point, it is hard not to believe the allegations in some quarters that they are working for the APC.
My charge to all is this: rise up, put on our thinking caps, and join forces with the PDP to defeat that party that said our people or votes do not matter. We can only achieve this working together not apart. It is now or never!
~Edward John is the Adviser, Media and Public Affairs to the PDP Chairman and Senior Member of the PDP Campaign Management Committee in Kaduna State and writes from Narom Village of Zonkwa Ward in Zango Kataf LGA of Kaduna State
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