THE CLEAREST OF MESSAGES FROM SANGA AND KAGARKO

The re-run elections for the Sanga and Kagarko House of Assembly seats is scheduled to take place on Saturday 25 January 2020. The re-run has become necessary in the light of the manipulative tendencies of the dictatorship wrecking havoc in the name of governance in Kaduna State. When the elections were held initially it was clear that the candidates of the PDP emerged as clear winners but the dictatorship was not and has not been comfortable with this victory particularly that of Sanga for obvious reasons and sought to reverse the outcome by way of either the election petition tribunals or courts. The re-run in Sanga will take place in 14 polling units. There are a number of reasons pointing to the fact that there is virtually nothing that the dictatorship along with their co-conspirators can do to reverse the will of the electorate in Sanga and Kagarko. Both candidates have a history of performance behind them. In Sanga for example you will be a chronic lair to attempt to obscure the achievements of Hon Comfort Amwe. She is not a novice in the business of leading her people. She has political pedigree speaking for her. Her people love her which is why she is simply identified and called '' Mama Sanga ''. If you are seeking to get to Hon Comfort Amwe in Sanga, please save yourself the problem, just ask for Mama Sanga and even a toddler will direct you to where this astute heroine may be found. Remove Mama Sanga from the political equation in Sanga and you are left with scorched political landscape. All the characters and political opponent who have thrown themselves up against this formidable heroine know that there is nothing they can do against her which is why they are relaying heavily on elements from the dictatorship to subvert the will of the electorate. If there is anything that Sanga can boast of today as dividends of democracy in, these accrued on account of the exemplary leadership of Hon Comfort Amwe. Hon Comfort Amwe if eventually she wins the re-run will be the only female legislator not only in Kaduna but the whole of the political North West. This is the more reason she is the candidate to beat come Saturday 25 January.

At a political campaign rally heid in Sanga and precisely Gwantu and Fadan Karshi towns yesterday 22 January 2020, this heroine had difficulties accessing the venue due to the mammoth crowed of mostly women who obviously constitute over 70% percent if the eligible voters, youths, the elderly and even some of the disabled. Hon Comfort Ambi did not get to the venue in a black tinted high profile jeep as has become the vogue, no, she walked there followed by the huge crowd as she got near,she was carried in the shoulders of young men and women to the venue and before the dignitaries not limited to Distinguished Senator Danjuna Laah representing the zone and the grand master of politics in the while of the North Suleiman Hunkuyi. It took the pleading of Sen Hunku before the youths let Hon Comfort Ambi's feet to touch the sacred grounds of the venue. While this drama was unfolding, you could count the number of people struggling with tears, this situation became worse she eventually Hon Comfort Ambi was handed the mic to address her people and guest alike.. Those who had the privilege of speaking spoke in glowing terms as to the character, political pedigree and capacity of Hon Comfort Ambi. The electorate in Sanga assured Hon Ambi that SECOM, INEC or any other body including ECOWAS, the African Union or United Nations can conduct the election re-run 10 times over, that they will vote Hon Comfort Ambi 10 times over. They have therefore organized themselves in such a strategic manner as to ensure that the re-run elections will be peaceful, orderly and without any intimidation or violence. The efforts of the security agents will therefore only be complimentary. There is a very clear warning though, it is directed to elements from the dictatorship who may be nursing the idea to once more manipulating the re-run elections in favour if their anointed candidate '' Please in your own interest do not come to either Sanga and by extension Kagarko '' because you will end up wishing you did not go. Suffice it to say here that election outcomes are usually rigged because certain measures are not put in place by the voters themselves. In the light of this therefore, the electorate will not only vote, they will remain at the polling unites until voting is over, the counting completed, then they will escort the outcome to the collation centers and will remain until declaration. This is akin to what our youths describe as '' bumper to bumper ''. The obvious truth that agents of the dictatorship will bring bags and bags of money because they have so much of it which they cannit deploy for developmental projects and try to buy votes or get the outcome fixed, the electorate were advised to silently collect such monies but vote for their preferred candudates after all, it is their money.

The situation was not any different at Kubacha in Kagarko local government area where the re-run will take place in 22 polling units. The same script as in Sanga played out in Kagarko. The strategies and resolve the same. The dictatorship must know that both local councils have traditionally been strongholds of the PDP. Elections could easily be rigged in other areas as happened in the 2019 general elections in most areas of Zone One and some in Zone Two but this will not happen in Zone Three as the electorate and people are literate enough to know what democracy means and how it is supposed to operate. The warning meant for enemies of democracy nursing the dangerous idea of going to either Sanga or Kagarko to influence negatively the outcome of the re-run election of 25 January or any other future elections in the future in Southern Kaduna must retreat from such hazardous undertaking. Finally, we challenge the dictatorship to as a matter of urgency organize elections in Kaura, Chukun and Kajuru local councils. So long.