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What did Abubakar Audu forget in Kogi Government House? This is a question\u00a0any average Nigerian would ask of any candidate aspiring to be sworn in\u00a0for a third term in any elective office, especially when such office in\u00a0question rates as high as the gubernatorial platform.<\/p>\n
Dr. Abubakar Audu has placed himself in that enquiry microscope ever since\u00a0he was denied a second term in his bid to extend his second coming as the\u00a0executive governor of Kogi State.<\/p>\n
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The People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP, had used every known means of election\u00a0malpractices and The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC-aided\u00a0rigging to deny the people\u2019s choice from extending his good works for a\u00a0people he evidently loved their well-being.<\/p>\n
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Before this derail, Dr. Audu had been the Chief executive of the state for\u00a0two separate terms \u2013 first, he was voted in overwhelmingly in 1992 under\u00a0the umbrella of the defunct Nigerian Republican Convention, NRC. Within\u00a0the 22 months he stayed in office before that General Ibrahim Babangida\u2019s\u00a0attempt to usher in democratic rule was inadvertently truncated to usher\u00a0in another long spell of uncertainties under military rule, Audu was ableto reposition the state by strongly erecting the solid windmills that\u00a0harvested long overdue dividends of democracy.<\/p>\n
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His head-on arrests of critical challenges in the housing, health, general\u00a0infrastructure, commerce and industry within so short a time still remain\u00a0landmarks in today\u2019s Kogi.<\/p>\n
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Hence, it was no rocket science that when the Fourth Republic kicked off\u00a0in 1999 Kogites had seen enough of Audu to overwhelming vote him in to\u00a0continue in his good works. And they were the happier for it for their\u00a0chief executive resumed exactly from where he stopped.<\/p>\n
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Specifically, those four years in office saw the indefatigable achiever\u00a0carving out further golden projects like building and equipping a\u00a0specialist hospital, the five star Confluence Hotel, 250 units Housing<\/p>\n
Estate, a sporting complex, 25 medical institutions, 350 borehole schemes,\u00a0300 km of township roads, 20 rural electrification projects as well as\u00a0procuring 100 mass transit buses and creating a specialist Government\u00a0Girls Secondary School on student exchange programme.<\/p>\n
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However, Kogites were denied the much-needed continuity to land them in\u00a0Audu\u2019s Eldorado when PDP struck with the rigging bulldozer that has ever\u00a0continued to deny such contentious and selfless leader.<\/p>\n
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But after 12 years of PDP\u2019s reign, Kogi State has deteriorated beyond\u00a0apprehension. Yet revenue allocation has more than quadrupled in present\u00a0day. Audu\u2019s landmarks have been left unmaintained without visible\u00a0replacements in place.<\/p>\n
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To answer the question, Audu is coming back on a rescue mission. He sees\u00a0his great plans to alleviate his people from poverty and pathetic living\u00a0diminish in the hands of a ruthless opposition, whose only creed for power\u00a0are for self-aggrandizement and closed family frolics.<\/p>\n
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Audu is coming to restore hope to his people, pick up Kogi State from the\u00a0sorry state it is and back to the envy he left it in 2003 by which time he\u00a0had won seven of the 12 performance awards available nationwide for\u00a0gubernatorial excellence in office.<\/p>\n
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Yes, Abubakar Audu forgot something \u2013 his people\u2019s well-being. Contesting\u00a0under the platform of Al People Congress, APC, Audu couldn\u2019t\u00a0 have chosen\u00a0a better CHANGE vehicle to drive home his three-point agenda \u2013 power\u00a0shift, state of emergency in critical sectors of the state and\u00a0concentration in \u2018stomach infrastructure\u2019.<\/p>\n
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The incumbent, PDP\u2019s Wada is in for the fight of his life to keep out Audu\u00a0from getting back to power. The PDP had succeeded in fraudulently keeping\u00a0the people\u2019s choice for three consecutive times. This time around, it will\u00a0definitely be a different ball game when Kogites decide on November 21,\u00a02015.<\/p>\n
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Ahmed Attah, Microbiologist, writes from Lokoja<\/p>\n
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