‘Insensitive, Unnecessary’: Senator Karimi Condemns Kogi APC Endorsement Rally

Sunday Karimi Kogi

The senator representing Kogi West senatorial district, Sunday Karimi, has declared that Kogites need no bullying by influence peddlers to vote President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

The lawmaker questioned the altruism behind the “endorsement rally” organised for the President on Saturday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.

Karimi, in a reaction put out by his media aide, Busayo Tosin, faulted the exercise, ostensibly organised by “stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress.”

Not a few political leaders in Kogi State, have criticised former governor Yahaya Bello for parading himself as the leader of the “APC stakeholders” that organised the rally.

They recalled how Yahaya Bello refused to step down for Tinubu in the 2022 APC presidential primary election, despite appeal by other APC governors at the time.

However, Bello, while addressing the rally on Saturday, described President Tinubu as “the angel sent by God to fix Nigeria.”

But concerned stakeholders decried the ex governor’s apparent desperate moves to ingratiate himself with President Tinubu, at the expense of top APC political office holders at the state and federal levels.

Senator Karimi was particularly miffed by Bello’s aping of “aye” and “nay” at the rally; a parliamentary tradition with which lawmakers vote to concur or object to any topic during plenary.

The Kogi West senator declared that President Tinubu has already earned his re-election from Kogites, stressing that there was no reason for anyone to “dry the people out in the scorching sun” to score a political point.

“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 said.

The senator 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.

Continuing, Karimi said, “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.”

Senator Karimi, who chairs the Senate Services Committee, further noted that the electorate in Kogi are too mature, too civilised and too sophisticated to be marched out like schoolchildren in the name of “a panic, self-serving rally.”

According to him, President Tinubu, has courageously touched on the nation’s development fundamentals and has earned popular support to continue in office after 2027.

“We are not in the Stone Age. Kogi West alone has over 12 Senior Advocates of Nigeria, (SANs). Politicians should stop misrepresentating our people as primitives,” Karimi declared.

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