2027: KOGI PEOPLE NEED NO BULLYING TO VOTE TINUBU
-SENATOR KARIMI
Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Sunday Steve Karimi, has said the people of Kogi State do not need to be bullied into voting President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
He was reacting to the warmongering at the “endorsement rally” hosted in Lokoja the Kogi State capital by self-styled stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), led by former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.
Reenacting parliamentary tradition which was alien to the crowd at the rally, Bello had requested those in favour of the reelection of President Tinubu to respond by saying *aye,* while those against should say *nay.*
Responding to the tepid response by the crowd, Karimi said the people of Kogi State do not need to be bullied or coerced into re-electing the President.
According to Karimi: “East, Central, West, the people of Kogi State appreciate Mr President.
They can see he is doing his best to make life better for them. He has increased allocations to the state and the local government areas; he has recognised select Kogi sons and daughters by way of appointments; work is progressing gradually on development projects across the state.”
Karimi noted that it was insensitive, unnecessary and preemptive to have organised a rally which kept people beneath the blazing sun, in the name of an election which is still over one year ahead. Said Karimi: “On merit, President Tinubu will be unbeatable come 2027.
The groundswell of support for him is evident in the numbers that are joining the movement for his continuation in office after 2027 by the day.
Stakeholders who love him should ensure that his best intentions are translated to the pockets and dining tables of Nigerians. That is the least we can do to support his good heart.”
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Services noted that the Kogi State electorate is too mature, too civilised and too sophisticated to be marched out like schoolchildren in the name of a “panic, self-serving rally.”
President Tinubu, he restated, has courageously touched on the nation’s developmental fundamentals and earned popular support to continue in office after 2027. “We are not in the “Stone Age,” Karimi said. “Kogi West alone has over 12 Senior Advocates of Nigeria, (SANs). Politicians should stop misrepresenting our people as primitives.”
Busayo Tosin
Media Officer
Office of the Senate Committee Chairman on Services
