By Eldee
The best political decision for Southern Kaduna people in 2023 is to transfer their bloc votes to Labour party who’s presidential candidate is a movement that has the power to push mountains.
Secondly, Though all the candidates from Southern Kaduna are competent enough to govern Kaduna State, Comrade Jonathan Asake’s sacrifice as SOKAPU President for the Southern Kaduna people in their dark experiences of kidnappings and killings has made him an easy candidate to sell than others who came out before him.
His courage and boldness to confront the government in power against all odds and to lead his team through vulnerable areas in the Kidnappers den shows he has the capacity to lead the fight against insecurity from the front.
His ability to mobilize support both locally and internationally for those living in the IDP camps dipicts his capacity to fight poverty and hunger.
His leading role in fighting for justice, equity and fairness amongst the 3 zones in the state will checkmate him to ensure justice equity and fairness for zone 1 and 2 if elected.
However, what about the risk of loosing and dividing the votes of PDP in Southern Kaduna to the advantage of APC Muslim-Muslim ticket government. If a choice must be made between the devil and the deep blue sea, between bad and worse which has been the position of Southern Kaduna people since the return to democracy in 1999 a good analysis of the dilemma must be made.
First and foremost we need to know that marginalization brings us closer to freedom than subjugation .
The reason why black Americans got their freedom at last was because they were able to endure years of marginalisation instead of accepting subjugation .
The reason why the black majority led by Nelson Mandela in South Africa got their freedom at last was because they endured years of marginalisation instead of accepting subjugation .
The reason why the Hausa’s can never break away from the political bondage of the Fulani’s is because they accepted subjugation instead of enduring marginalisation .
The reason why southern kaduna will be free in the long run is if we decide to endure marginalization rather than accepting subjugation .
Marginalization refers to social exclusion, where certain groups of people are denied access to certain rights in the society. i.e. denial of access to institutions, funding and other opportunities.
Subjugation is essentially an action by which a group of people conquers another group of people and the conqueror decides over all kinds of aspects relating to the conquered. Treating the conquered as inferior or subjects.
Our Muslim brothers in kaduna state whether APC or PDP do not believe that we have the right to produce a governor in kaduna state. They believe that it is their birthright to produce the governor in kaduna state. So both APC and PDP have the same agenda but they go about achieving it using different strategy.
While APC is using marginalization PDP on the other hand is using Subjugation .
It is easy to gain freedom after many years of marginalization because you will attract the attention and sympathy of the world when you are marginalized . But nobody gives you attention when you are comfortable with the crumbs that falls from your masters table as subjects.
The governorship of late Sir, Patrick Yakowa was an act of God not an act of PDP. Yar’adua died and God used Goodluck Jonathan being a Christian President to pick Namadi Sambo for Yakowa to be governor.
Majority of the Federal appointment we’ve had i.e Isaiah Balat, Garba Ali madaki, Nenadi Usman, Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, Gen. Luka Yusuf etc. were all appointed by Christian Presidents in PDP against the wishes of the governors of that period that are from the Northern part and also PDP.
If PDP truly appreciates our loyalty to party and Bloc votes since 1999 what is our reward? Deputy? God forbid. Politics is about give and take, we have been giving their candidates Bloc votes since the 1999. Now why didn’t they ask us to produce a candidate that they also will support? Politics is about negotiation, see how Gov. Nyeson Wike is negotiating for his people, what are our elders negotiating for us? For anybody to say that we should continue supporting PDP is as good as saying that we should accept second fiddle for only God knows how long. If they did not give Late Isaiah Balat the ticket to contest for the governorship of this state despite his sacrifice for the party, do you think they’ll give anyone of those parading themselves today? NO
APC is rather courageous enough to say they are taking everything because we didn’t vote for them and perhaps if they continue taking everything our freedom will eventually come one day or maybe if they continue taking everything PDP will come back to her senses.
Being a Christian dominated zone, our vote in 2023 is in defence of our faith, our freedom of worship, PDP have not defended us either, both at the state and the federal level they have not come out to speak against the he killing of Christians. Tell me what Sen. Makarfi said when we were being killed, tell me what Hon. Isah Ashiru said when we were being killed or didn’t Atiku withdrew what he said? Haba jama’a what did they take us for?
We told PDP to give us a better candidate against APC in 2023 yet they repeated the same unsalable person as 2019 but are expecting a different result. To make matters worse Southern Kaduna PDP elders now pushed a deputy governorship candidate that is older and more qualified than the governorship candidate, what an insults to the collective intellectual capacity of the Southern Kaduna people. Don’t we have younger competent youth? enough is enough! It’s better we take a stand now under the current movement and make our position of the No.1 seat known than continue going for second seat for God knows how long.
Please don’t mind my outrage ?
Eldee
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