2027: IN KOGI STATE, TINUBU IS OUR ONLY PLAN – Senator Sunday Karimi
The recent observation by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), about the early onset of electioneering activities ahead of the 2027 general elections, is apposite.
While not shuffling this observation into the drawers, it is desirable for me to add my voice to ongoing conversations about the forthcoming presidential election under reference.
Let me be very categorical here that for us in Kogi State, the reelection of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, is our sole option. There are no two ways about this.
More than any administration in our recent political history, Kogi State has received the most attention in terms of tangible infrastructural development and human capital development, under the Tinubu administration.
Albeit in phases, roads which run through Kogi State from the North, South, East and West of the country are receiving attention, consistent with resources available to the federal government.
The 614 kilometre Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project initiated during the era of the late President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, in 2020, to drive national socioeconomic development, has achieved 75% completion under President Tinubu. Kogi State will be a major beneficiary of the trickle downs of this project when it is activated.
Hitherto moribund requests for the establishment of additional federal universities to provide more opportunities for higher education, are receiving accelerated attention under the Tinubu government.
Our people are also being recognised by this regime for appointment into departments and agencies, to contribute their quotas to national development.
Our state has been victim of policy somersaults in dispensations past, culminating in the discontinuation of well-intentioned developmental projects, which has set us back by several decades. The dualisation of the Abuja-Lokoja-Okene, and Okene-Auchi-Benin roads; the rehabilitation of the Kabba-Isanlu-Egbe-Ilorin road, are cases in point. The Tinubu government has resumed work on these projects, calculated to make life better for host communities in Kogi State and road users across the country.
As it stands today, the people of Kogi State are not in the business of political voyeurism by way of experimenting with a new President and National Leader. *We have no Plan B* a possibility which has been broached in some quarters in the state. We will stand resolutely with and support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, the man we know. There will be no equivocation, no dithering about this resolve.
Doubters should smell the coffee.
E-signed:
Senator Sunday Steve Karimi
Senator Representing Kogi West District
Chairman, Senate Committee on Services
Wednesday August 6, 2025
Abuja
