Worried by leadership failure that has led to mass unemployment and other social vices in Kogi State, despite its abundant natural resources, a gubernatorial aspirant, Prince Sanni Shuaibu has called on Kogites to join forces with him to rescue the state from its present condition.
He made this call yesterday while speaking exclusively with DAILY POST at a forum with APC Kogi citizens in diaspora who met at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.
He noted that the State which was created alongside others has remained dwarfed on the altar of visionless and clueless past political office holders who squandered the state resources on those things that were of no benefit to the people.
He lamented that a state such as Kogi that is locked up with all sorts of mineral resources need a resourceful and entrepreneurial element on the saddle so as to generate employment.
“Look at Kogi State and tell me if there is no mineral resources that you know, yet Kogi is the least of all the states of the federation”, he said.
According to him, as a private enterprenuer, he has brought investors to other states of the federation and the effort was yielding so much for those states.
He queried that why would Kogi Indegenes be in Abuja if the State had enjoyed good governance before now.
He noted that his activities had taken him across the length and breadth of the country and outside the country, but that Kogi State was oblivious of good administration in all sense it. He said that the only panacea to this ugly trend was for the people themselves to come to terms that it was no longer business as usual.
Asked how he would go about his ambition of governing Kogi State, the businessman cum politician said, they were currently developing ‘common sense’ strategy so as to make the people see the rot, feel the odd and go for a generational change, in that way, Kogi State would be delivered.
He commended President Muhammadu Buhari for getting things right so far, especially on the issue of security which he has taken as his priority, while stressing that he appoints those that have vision of like minds with him to drive the economy on the part of glory.
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