In the coming days and weeks, focus on activities around the upcoming primaries of the two leading political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party no doubt will have shifted from permutations and postulations to the obvious, in Kogi State.
This may be due to a number of factors. Principal among these, is the audacious monetization of Nigeria’s democracy by the two leading parties especially APC, which fixed the price tag of the Senate nomination forms at N20m; that of the House of Representatives at N10m, and the House of Assembly at N2million. The development practically barred many potential aspirants who found the fees unaffordable, unbearable or unreasonable, as the case may be.
Also, U.K based Tokunbo Oluwadami Alaga has picked ADC nomination forms for the House of Representatives election for Kabba-Bunu-Ijumu Federal Constituency. Alaga is leveraging Abejide’s influence in ADC and popularity. He has also undertaken some innovative empowerment programmes for his people. During the 2021 yuletide, Abejide announced that about 2000 people benefited from the scheme. He provided vocational training equipment for hundreds of his constituents, and provided others with automobiles, tricycles, motorcycles, mechanical implements and fertilisers to the principally agrarian people of his area.