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urrealman:
Aguda for Governor, KOGI Needs Help.

Exactly

Heireiz:
Kogi is dead

With aguda kogi can b rescued

SheyiRealtor:
They are all the same joor.. Politicians can't be trusted abeg.. Dino Melaye is even better. Make this Aguda man go sit down one place or what can he do differently?

Lets give aguda a chance n do away wit this dino n yaya

Roads are the corner stone of development. They are crucial to the socio-economic development of any state. They provide access to employment, hospitals, schools etc. See how Kogi roads are...if they can't even provide the most crucial basic factor for development. What is there to consider? Take it back....Kogi people need to take it back.

#Aguda2019 #aguda4governor #kogi2019 #kogiguber #takeitback #aac #hope2019

AGUDA - I want to lead a new generation of leaders, not just in Kogi, but we are looking at a bigger Nigeria where Kogi is just going to be a window of opportunities to demonstrate that.

My thoughts - I believe Nigeria needs a new crop of leadership, we have tried the old hands for decades. It's time for something new ftc

Oluwole Temidire Aguda is an aspirant on the platform of African Action Congress (AAC) for the November governorship election in Kogi State. He spoke with SEYE OLUMIDE on his aspiration and strategy.

What is behind your aspiration?
I see under-utilization of capacity in the state from different dimensions. The people of Kogi, as far as I know have been short-changed on a number of times by its leadership. I have witnessed bailout funds, for instance, paid to the state government and yet the workers to whom the bailout was released have been unable to take advantage of such. I have seen mediocrities in governance and I believe that it is actually time to make a real effort at redefining the leadership for Kogi. It has been all about politics and not the regeneration of leadership that manages governance. When leaders get into office in the state they tend to retain the political order as opposed to shifting from that dimension to socio-economic aspect of what will impact the people.

The politician would remain political and would already be thinking about their second term from their first day in office.

All of those political considerations make leadership very ineffective in Nigeria. I want to lead a new generation of leaders, not just in Kogi, but we are looking at a bigger Nigeria where Kogi is just going to be a window of opportunities to demonstrate that. Governance is possible because as far as I am concerned just a state or two in this country are actually enjoying governance; I am not saying good governance anyway.

What are those states you have in mind?
I will be very careful not to advertise what is not fantastic. It is not in anyway to say that a state like Lagos is living up to its optimal best but it is operating better. I want to say that Lagos has been able to manage its local economy, how it has developed human capacity and how it has generally remained a welcome state to business in Nigeria. That will be about it.

Within 1999 to now we have witnessed how the Federal Government within the same political space of our leadership have withheld funds belonging to the state because there were issues until the matter went to the Supreme Court. But the state managed to survive. I have always opposed over-dependence on federal allocation as totally unacceptable. Governors now depend on allocation but Lagos has gone beyond that. To me, our states should look inwards to survive. Another state I can point at is Bauchi.

How do you hope to win the Kogi electorate to your side, being a freshman?
The people of Kogi like the rest of Nigerians have greatly suffered. In the state today, there is mass poverty, there is a struggle to feed. I do not even need to be Wole Aguda to be interested in the situation of the state, but I just need to be human. I just need to have feelings for the people and to also have capacity.

Kogi is ripe for anybody to rule. It goes beyond an individual, the city is ready for help and the people want to be self-sustaining and they are waiting for the person that would lay the path for them. They have been sold a psychological lie that they are incapable of being better than they are. These are people whom you represent and receive funds on their behalf and still deprive them.

I just need to have capacity and human feelings because these are totally missing today. I need to be able to think differently from the existing order that we have. Ineptitude at the political level is driving the state.

For instance, we have coastal areas in the state but our people don’t even know that. Any area of the world were you have a coast easily attracts tourism or fishing hub, but Kogi doesn’t have any of that. If I ask you what you know about the state you would probably say the workers are being owed salaries but it is more than that. I want to sell a new Kogi to the outside World. To let people know that we are more than this.

The couple interventions we are looking up to bring into the state is from my digital technology background. I want to go to Kogi with the knowledge of the digital technology, which is now driving the world. Kogi of today needs help, it needs redemption and that is what I am after today.

To run for governorship, you need resources. How much do you have?
Politics in Nigeria depends on money because we have perpetrated a culture of dependence. Our politics depends on money because our politicians have sold hunger as a commodity. Our politics is only what we have made of it but it doesn’t have to be so.

Yes, there is no human venture at this scale that would not require some financial capacity but my political party is not one that subscribes to moneybag politics. We would not in any way advance any ideal that has to do with moneybag politics.
The reason is that politics is not supposed to be a financial venture but it is a service. The current set of leaders we have today invested in politics like it is a transaction and so it has become a do or die affair. And when they get to office they would have to pay back what they invested or recoup their money.

That is the unfortunate culture of politics today but what we are proposing is a deviation from that. And I want you to mark my words that in November when the election would take place, my party would have been able to break that big rock of moneybag politics. I am just hoping that we win but let it been known that even if we don’t win we would have shifted the rock that is blocking the door. We are not here to say lets get what we want and run away but we are in the race to make positive changes.

You saw what happened in the last general election, how vote buying has all of a sudden permeated the political space as if it is normal. You can see the involvement of security agencies in partisan politics; you can see a whole lot of things that were wrong.

The elections have come and gone and the tribunals are now working. We have an opportunity to demonstrate to Nigeria that it is possible to run a political campaign on good will and support from people who believe in a vision. The vision that we sell is popular.
Your party is young. Are you not afraid of APC and PDP?
We have a lot of work to do at the grassroots. Like I said, we are going on an ideological warfare because the people have been psychological battered.

Politicians have successfully eroded the collective mind-set of the people and so in Kogi it is very easy for people to equate politics with money sharing.

The duty that we have as a political party is to serve a different vision to the people of Kogi, to let them understand that the current system does not work for them.

A close and realistic analysis of the people’s predicament today is predicated on the fact that the existing system does not favour anybody. Politicians are not helping, electorate are not helping the system. We want them to pause and reflect on their state as a people and to ask whether they can be better than they are currently.

As for INEC, look whether we like it or not, the Commission would have no choice than to sit up in November.


For instance, the controversies regarding INEC server can simply be resolved if Nigerians know whether there are budgetary allocation for the server. If we are able to establish there was budgetary allocation then we begin to ask other cogent questions. If there was a server, show the results otherwise show us the money. On the power of incumbency and PDP, those factors would not work I can assure you.

You are from Kogi West; how much chance do you have against competitors from Kogi East, with bigger voter population?
Poverty does not know ethnicity, poor infrastructure does not segregate, mismanagement of resources as we have witnessed today in the state and previously does not exclude any section or senatorial district and race in the state. We are all witnessing and suffering the consequences, so in aspiring to revamp Kogi economically, I don’t think my name or background matters compared with the stuff I am bringing to the table.

The state needs help, its previous leaders, irrespective of their background have failed. It is therefore necessary to give room for a new and vibrant order, which we are going to provide.



https://m.guardian.ng/politics/aguda-kogi-needs-help-redemption-and-thats-what-im-after/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPdvWbvFa8s

AGUDA and the AAC state chapter in Lokoja. TAKE IT BACK

#Aguda2019 #aguda4governor #kogi2019 #kogiguber #takeitback #aac #hope2019


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Rotimi20:
Yes,AGUDA is the better personnel for kogi state governership...he is a man of his words...change In kogi lies in his hands..

Vote for AGUDA
Vote transparancy...

AGUDA 2019

yarimo:
YAHAYA BELLO till 2024 according to majority of Kogi State people.

Hissss

AGUDA is all kogi state needs

This is the man kogi needs

Lalastica pls do d needful

SheyiRealtor:
I don't think this man has anything to offer Kogi state. Moreover where in Kogi state is he from and what has he ever done for Kogi people to convince us that he's the right person.. Abeg ba Dino and Yahaya Bello we know, I am still yet to choose between those two sef except maybe if this Aguda can convince me that he's different sha

If you check his profile u will understand he is the best man for the job betta dan yaya n dino

AGUDA is the man


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mont4me:
We cannot keep doing the same thing over and over again as a people and expect different results. Kogi state is critical to the survival of many well meaning Nigerians. Let us all go out and support this AGUDA for effectiveness and results. #Yeswecan

When we do not vote for the best hands like AGUDA of AAC kogi wil keep geting thugs ncomedians as governor

Jharmo:
I hope kogi people would for the first time in history make a good decision this time around. We have never been lucky with leadership since the Creation of our state. We cannot vote that yeye bello again, he has nothing to offer other than thuggery, and for Dino the Comedian, kogi is not house of comedy. We cannot continue to chose between the devil and the deep blue sea. Both PDP and APC have failed us woefully. Let's try something fresh and different. I have been following this Aguda of AAC closely and I think he is making some valid point and clear road map. YouI will likely
settle for him for Kogi 2019 Governorship election.

Exactly d thuggery yaya n comedian dino should ve nothing to do with governance

At every turn in history, men and women of goodwill have left their vocations and callings to spearhead change and progressive causes.

Many hitherto unattainable phenomena have given way to the collective resolve of a people.

Just recently, Nigerians have made strides in their collective aspirations for a better society and so have deployed the capacity of their oneness to demand social order in prevalent chaos. The social stagnation of the nation is shifting to accommodate new thinking and better ways of doing things. Of a truth, there is a sun in the horizon and every man and woman, boy and girl must rise to the warmth and healing that it brings.

Kogi State has been bastardised by the PDP and APC in not small ways. The records are abysmally against the people, intrinsically devoid of truth and chronologically riled with incompetence.

Kogi State has continued to be bastardised by inept and wantonly repressive human elements. The people have also become unwilling victims of a pauperised system that takes prisoners of poverty as spoils of electoral war.... This cannot continue.

In the midst of this chaos, we find a gem, an uncommon find in the mix of corruption infested leadership that has gored the state helplessly. This gem is AGUDA, a man of destiny and who is poised to position Kogi State as a beacon of pointable hope for Nigerian progress. Today, we find in this young man, a possibility that Kogi can become a thriving commercial hub in Africa, tapping from her immense human capital and delivering on beneficial impetus to the masses.

The man for job in November 2019 is AGUDA and only then can Kogi begin to enjoy real growth.


Be involved. Hope2019


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have which were thought to be impossible. Nigeria has recently been fed from the table of re-order, where the seemingly unattainable became possible through the collective will of the people. Today, races and the people of the world are collectively re-writing their present to usher in a desirable future. Kogi is at the junction of opportunity today.

Take your power back
Take you Kogi back
Aguda can do it
LET

#Aguda2019 #aguda4governor #kogi2019 #kogiguber #takeitback

Kogi will b great with AGUDA

AGUDA is the only way

On this flight, I kept musing ideas about how our people in Kogi could understand the symbiotic relationship between the Vote and Development. Politicians already know the trick - secure the vote (by whatever means possible), then knock the people out for 3 years. The people are so beaten, so mentally defeated that anything politicians offer them after 3 years works. My campaign, our campaign, will NOT buy 1 vote. This makes our work harder under the circumstances, but our liberty becomes more secure. This is our interest.

If a politician pays you for your vote, you cannot place demands denominated on that vote after elections. Would you refund him/her for the payment you received? What if he decides to charge unimaginable interests on the principal amount given before the election? Would you be able to pay?

DO NOT SELL YOUR VOTE TO US. WE WILL NOT BUY IT. OUR HONOUR PRECEDES OUR AMBITION.

AGUDA is permanent. AAC is permanent. YOUR EXCELLENCY is not. We will defer to the permanent.

Join our mass movement. TAKE KOGI BACK.

#WECAN #TAKEITBACK

AGUDA
03.07.2019

JULY - AND THE MARCH CONTINUES

The second month of our Campaign has just set in. In 30 days, my team and I have been able to roll our sleeves and faced gruelling demands for work. We have been able to internally agree the following:

1) CONSOLIDATE our focus on the possibilities of a prosperous Kogi State. Politicians are usually all about the political but we are looking at policy drive and actions that promote concerns for human welfare, worker’s rewards, accelerated promotion of Agriculture as a basis for economic growth, infrastructural renewal, education and primary health care. We are assessing cost effective models for advancing the state and the possibilities get realer by the day.

2) RALLY a consensus of opinions about the incapacity of past and present leadership in Kogi for innovation, creativity, modern governance and a sound performance measurement system. We have found them grossly incapable of deeply rooted actions that engender economic growth and social development. They basically just share money. They await allocation and share amongst friends and cronies.

3) CONNECT with the plight of workers in the state which absolutely damns any records of achievements of this present administration. While we are in the know that emergency performance plans are in the works to facilitate re-election, the pain and agony of living with N4800 per month or N7000 per month over an extended period of time dwindles the effects of such tricks under the circumstances. Kogi citizens are encouraged to be on the look-out for emergency performance in different sectors which were never seen in over 3 and half years.

4) MAP out real, tangible and achievable progress that can be made within the 48 months of 1 term. One thing that I know that we will not do is increase the costs we bear as a state on Irrevocable Standing Payment Orders to banks - some of which leaves Kogi paying N3.5 Billion every month in repayments. Our map will see an influx of domestic and foreign investments to open up Kogi beautifully. We are serious people here I can assure you all.

5) On a lighter note, I was also banned from sharing private views on controversial subjects publicly hence my (rather painful) silence on the COZA matter which I have very strong views about. My beard gang leaders in the campaign will block me if I did. No wahala sha!

It's been 30 great days of so much. Great meetings, great people, great actions, great ideas. I am further bolstered to continue to lead this charge to Kogi in the most difficult of circumstances especially given the resolve of our Party to right the wrongs of the state on behalf of the people.

I thank everyone LIKING, SHARING our messages and ADVISING us. You are doing your part and we thank you.

We remain grateful to the early birds who threw in their cash gifts already in June. We were pleasantly surprised. Thank you.

To the Campaign Team, we have a lot to deal with in July - Big Brother Nigeria and "Discussion X" which is that unknown social media sensation that always comes up. I am however trusting in your demonstrated commitment, support, and sacrifices to pull through the month of July flying. You are great men and women who are imprinting much in my life and thanking you is now beyond what I can do. Thank you so much nonetheless Team.

To my Party, the AFRICAN ACTION CONGRESS and the TAKE IT BACK MOVEMENT, I am grateful for our talks in the last month. Kogi is the focus and will remain so. Thank you so much for the work of providing basis for a sound process of confronting the Establishment.

To the AAD - for the early adoption, THANK YOU. We do not take it lightly. We thank you immensely and look forward to our work in Kogi. Emmanuel Olorunmagba, you deserve special mention sir.

To family and friends who are sold to this vision despite their worries for the guns and thugs from Lokoja - THANK YOU.

It's one month gone, 3 more to go to first catch up and beat the political dinosaurs on our way.

We will. #WeCan #TAKEITBACK

AGUDA
01.07.2019

Lalastica plz move to fp

yarimo:
If not governor YAHAYA BELLO any aspirants ambition is dead on arrival.

Drugs!! Pls stay away from drugs abi dis suffer neva taya u

1) WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. The establishment will have us wait till Godot. They will not remind us that they began occupying Nigeria from their late 20s and were controlling the vestiges of our nationhood from their early 30s. They want us to wait till we are 50, not for sake of our nation but to enable them finish Nigeria successfully. We will not wait. We will run. We will make our mistakes early enough to become better players in time enough to fix Nigeria. We are in already.

2) GOVERNORS ARE DEITIES. Yes, that's what they'll make us believe - that Governors are a different breed of homo sapiens. No sir, no ma. They are average Joes who got lucky but who will not have other average Joes become who they are. They are not any special than the clerks in our offices and soldiers in battle. They indeed hold high positions of responsibility but they fart and foul the air like Danfo conductors could or do. They are not deities. They are men and women who should enjoy our respect, like any other deserving respect.

3) THEY HAVE THUGS AND CAN BE DANGEROUS. We know. We die. We meet in yonder. Non politicians get killed daily, politicians cannot live in the fear of what they still face outside politics.

We see through the smokescreens that are designed to push us back. We are not in this for the filthy wealth they acquire or for the showmanship. We are not here to impress but to seize an opportunity to position Kogi State competitively in Nigeria. Kogi State can re-open Nigeria sincerely.

It will be done.

#WeCan #TAKEITBACK

AGUDA
28.06.2019

The Fact: Kogi is one of the most indebted states in Nigeria today.
What do we have to show for it? Very little.
What We Will Do: Our administration when voted in will institute independent, autonomous bodies for monitoring of financial disbursements to the state.
I am AGUDA, and with the AAC will institute responsible Debt Management. They won't like us for that but we are about Kogi and her unstoppable growth.
#WeCan #TAKEITBACK.
AGUDA
27.06.2019

AGUDA, OLUWOLE

Born 2nd December, 1979, Wole Aguda is an astute Businessman with records of demonstrated capacity, philanthropy, and creative ingenuity. Armed with a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Jos, Nigeria and an MBA with Distinction from the University of Hull, United Kingdom respectively, Aguda honed his business skills in Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Consulting, Information and Communications Technology.

He is a personable business professional with a firm belief in the resilience of the Nigerian nation and her people. His uncommon business acumen clearly underscores his qualities as a tactician and strategist who covers his flanks excellently and effectively. This has been deployed to generate employment at different strata and in tough fields of endeavor.

Aguda has worked his way through top Nigerian companies such as Industrial and General Insurance Company (IGI), Image Consultants, First Bank Plc, the then Oceanic Bank Plc, Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, GLOBACOM LTD, gathering experience and discipline in the process. As Direct-to-Retail Lead at Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, Wole led the team that successfully berthed Vitafoam’s Second Tier Retail Chain called “Vitashops”, in what many have described to be a revolutionary rethink of channels to business profitability for the company. Banking on strides achieved in the course of building a career in the private sector, he ventured into full blown entrepreneurship.

Aguda has successfully carved a niche for himself in Nigeria’s booming tech space with a number of business organisations that have affirmed the aforementioned capabilities and business character. In 2015, he founded DeGrey Digital Technologies, and in 2016 he formed, Condolences.ng, Nigeria’s First Online Bereavement Management Service. And still not resting on his oars, in 2017 with a few partners, he founded EppMe Digital Technologies (formerly Eppme.net Services) with interests in Geolocation Services Management, Dynamic Reporting Systems, Emergency Services and Employee Productivity Tracker. The company would later receive an award of a Certificate of Patent from the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Aguda has beyond his business pursuits, used his voice and platforms to support many good causes. Aguda loves to serve and it comes quite naturally. Recognizing the significance of genuine service to his people, and the need to take Kogi State to pointable participatory development, Aguda who hails from Takete-Ide, Mopamuro LGA declared his intention to run for the governorship seat of the Confluence State, in May 2019. Far above the quality of his academic qualifications, the most valuable credential he brings to governance is his creative genius and solutions driven focus.

With strong convictions, genuine political will, tenacity of purpose and a solid agenda for all sectors of the economy of the state in place, Aguda presents new thinking, and new ways of achieving frontrunner status for Kogi state.

AAC

TAKE IT BACK

http://www.woleaguda.com/about-aguda/personal/

A more reasonable option

I willfully accept the risks associated with advancing an ideological position from what many may interpret as conscious panelbeating of a battered opportunity to gain or political advantage. But I will not, for the sake of self-serving "personal correctness" discountenance an opportunity to highlight germane issues of our political evolution as a people. I have therefore elected to pen these thoughts with hopes that the minutes it takes to read them may yield for us a better nation.

The 2019 General Elections have been archived in Nigeria now as a further reflection of the deplorable collective state of the Nigerian people. In a nation with over 882 million registered voters, the combination of votes, supposedly won by the announced winner and runner-up stands at about 28.5%. This translates to President Buhari being only able to secure around 17% of the total, eligible votes available for determining who would be president. The unmistakable revelation of those percentages is that the electoral process is non-representative at present. What we have at best is a quasi-democracy, sonambulating indecisively on uncertainty and providing grand cover for the concealed weaknesses of the human prongs of electoral victories in Nigeria. If Lagos State has a tally of 6.5M voters and the PDP and APC scored under 1M in the totality of votes cast, can the parties be said to be active and actual representative democracies? If more than 5M eligible persons preferred to honour an unproclaimed sit-at-home over stepping out to vote, shall we, by any stretch claim that our leaders are truly representatives of the people?

Lokoja in Kogi State has a long history of national prominence. It was once home to the leadership of White colonialists who inhabited our land. And while it plays a hugely significant role in that epoch of entrenched human domination of humans, very little can be said to have changed in almost 60 years of Lokoja in Nigeria today. It could, perhaps be a stint of fate, that the elections in Kogi are now off-cycle, removed from the mainstream calendar in order to provide a window for re-caliberating prepondetrant socio-infirmities of the Nigerian state with eyes on the ignoble outcomes that have been recklessly registered by parties in other parts of Nigeria. Shall we not seek aggregated measures to correct the flawed claims of 'Representative' by persons who do not control up to 30% of eligible votes at elections? Will we not lead the charge to employ what I call "creative socio-political activism" to force an ideological re-direction of Kogi through the ballot?

There are around 1.6M registered voters in Kogi. Shall we not seize the inherent opportunities of November to make a statement about #TRUE Representative Leadership by getting lackadaisical, indifferent voters out on election day to exercise their rights? Getting it right in Kogi has symbolic capacity to actively re-direct Nigeria to sustainable prosperity and to be home to happier, more fulfilled citizens. We should not allow holders of only 25% of eligible voters beat down our resolve for pointable growth and development for another 4 years again. We are to clearly become Kogites in my opinion to permeate the minds of the people and to re-shape them along lines of our ethos as a movement. The next, most viable electoral window for TAKE IT BACK is Kogi State. We must not let that chance slip. Our party, the AAC remains the only one with demonstrated capacity to provide standardized political engagement pre-election and post election and so must be advanced exponentially - and in every wise. An electoral victory will sound the real drums of freedom from concentrated and historical oppression.

It is only impossible to poor students of History but we live in full recognition of the inevitable reconfiguration of Nigeria for the better - whether anybody likes it or not.


AAC
TAKE IT BACK

LET US TAKE KOGI BACK.

#WECAN #TAKEITBACK

AGUDA, W.T
25.06.2019

AGUDA AAC all the way

The unconstitutional disbursement of funds to illegal LG adminstrators (governor's slaves) would not happen in AAC party government but there will be LG Elections and elected chairman for each LG


That is the total amount of revenue and share in Kogi state

Facts and figures,we need answers from Yaya Bello,where is our money? #takeitback #kogiguber #aguda2019

This is disregard for the constitution and impunity

@tradernaija how do u prefer tout to professionals . What was doing b4 politics ?