I am Chief Tonnie Vysnt-Damkor, Chairman, Kwande Local Government Area chapter of Congress for Progressive Change, or CPC for short. General Muhamadu Buhari is my leader and presidential candidate. Need I reiterate here that my leader is the very epitome of orderliness as well as fairness and progressive development, as it is demanded by liberal Democracy.
We of the CPC and every other peace-loving indigene of Kwande Local Government Area of Benue Sate, particularly, and generally are not only worried, but completely taken aback by recent negative political Developments which if not checkmated, threaten our very existences.
That the caretaker chairman of Kwande local Government, Terlumun Akputu, in this part of the twenty-first-century, and in a liberal Democratic country like Nigeria, would seek to stop other political parties, duly registered and recognized by INEC and Nigerians from making forays into Kwande so as to show case their candidates or party manifestoes in the very least could be said to smacker off a NEANDERTHAL existence
Or may be Mr Akputu doesn’t quite appreciate the unequivocal fact that, it is the inaliable right of every Kwande indigene to associate with every body of his or her choice; provide such a hob-nob is legal. If the latter is the case then he will need urgent re-education or orientation and the earlier this is done, the better for him and indeed the generality of our society.
No one needs any reminding here that Kwande has suffered, one clearly avoidale political Misfortune, too many. In fact, the accumulative negative effects of such politics of dastardliness has taken us back more than 100-hundred years development wise. And again even democracy is properly established here.
Nigeria is not a police station where dictatorship is put in place by brazen acts of coercion intimidation or crude and brutal force reigns supreme. on the contrary, here in Nigeria, any much like other democracies, people are won over by effective representation, occasioned by optimum utilization of structured time, personal and resources in such a manner that smiles are put on the faces of the greatest number of the citizenry. The foregoing is what we refer to as positive utilization of legitimate power.
Put differently, rather than try to intimidate or cow Kwande people into sub-mission, Akputu should co-opt expertly diplomacy in wooing all and sundry over to his camp, and endeed that of his master’s. after all there’s this maxim which says a good article of trade or products for sale attracts for itself a market. This if Terlumun Akputu’s master and indeed his party’s other candidates for elective office are readily marketable, they would attract patronage without let or hindrances.
Olugsegun Obasanjos do or die 2007 elections, during which thuggery arson, ballot-box stuffing and snatchinig and flagrant display and use of militias and illegal firearms and the accompanying disenfranchisement of Nigeria’s voter population, are still two fresh and traumatic in our minds for any one to seek to add salt to an already gangrene infested wound.
By this I mean, no body should try to breath down the necks of Kwande people, regarding who or who not to vote for this time around. This should necessary be so because the people of Kwande are not only Knowledgeable but similarly known what is good for them Kwande people shall and should only vote into office those who will articulate or aggregate interests central and or close to their very hearts.
On a final note, Kwande local Government Area, Benue State and indeed Nigeria as a geo-political entity is not excluded from the current wind of change that, like a bush-fire during the harmattan, is sweeping across Africa and has already engulfed with minimum resistance, Guniea, Tunisia Egypt and presently, has in its insatiable fangs, Libya Gabon and Sudan as if one may borrow from Orenakankafor M.K.O Abiola, and popularized of late by Hon. Julius Terngu Shawon, only a fool will stand in the path of a fast moving train.
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