Are you aware that, no matter how lazy, truant and unthinking you are, once you become a politician over here, and win a political position, you automatically become rich without doing any work? That’s actually the biggest motivation for most persons seeking political office today.
Regardless of the lies of our politicians that their job is not well paid, they are some of the highest paid politicians in the whole world, aside their corruption. They amass so much money while in office, such that they never want to leave those offices. The allure to remain or return is scintillating and motivated by memories of the lavish life they leave; funded by public money. The perquisites of office are too sweet to be forfeited. You get them, whether you work or not.
If not, how can someone complain or claim that there is so much stress and there is no money in the office he or she occupies, yet the person isn’t willing to exit the office. The person is still ready to fight, bribe, maim, and even kill, to remain or return to that same office, where you claim there is so much stress and no money?
What exactly is sticking you there or alluring you to return? Service? Big fat lie! What exactly have you served or did you serve? My view is that, Cross River in general and the Northern part of the State in particular, have remained stagnated for such a long time now that there is a need for intentional people with very strong imagination to emerge again as leaders that can spiral the rapid growth and development of the old Ogoja zone and not some rusty, high shouldered and over pampered society fellas who feel entitled to continually lord over us.
There are a litany of problems to be solved. We need problem solvers. Solution providers. We need people who can lead, not people who want to show off. People who can engage and solve our problems in the long term. People who have empathy and proven ideas on how to deal with what is challenging our communities. People who will be available to contain our onus, not those who will give us tokens. Tokenism and palliativism is not governance. It is see-finish. We need people that will govern us quantitatively.
That’s why I am asking you this morning, how much is your vote, if you are from Cross River North? Is your vote for sale or for development? If it is for sale, how much is it worth? Don’t make the mistake of giving power to misfits again. There is a conspiracy of a desperate power drunk coterie, who are preying on our intelligence and we must not fall for it. We must now deodorize their stinking egos.
We are already seeing the midterm results from those who are currently leading us in the North. I am deliberately keeping this to the North this morning. I hope you are keeping the records and scores. If you are not, I am. I am keeping every detail. It appears there are vacancies in some positions already and there are none in others. When the time is ripe, I will not sit on the fence. I will tell you where I stand, that’s if you don’t know already. I stand with development. I love performers.
Yours sincerely,
Citizen Agba Jalingo.
Disclaimer: The opinion expressed in this article is strictly that of the author, Agba Jalingo, and does not represent TheLumineNews, it’s agent or the organization the author works for.
