By Elisha Olatunji Emmanuel
Democracy in it’s objectivity is a government that seeks to have practical interface with people of all categories, especially touching the lives of those at the grassroots who may never have any occasion and privilege to be heard or touched by leaders they believe in, throughout their lifetime.
This tragic trend has restrained countless members of the society from accomplishing their dreams, hence it explains the rational behind the growing rate of vices and even violence among the youthful population whose expectations aren’t met, and they stare at a gloomy and bleak future.
Listening to the yearnings of the teeming masses by their leaders not only assuage their plights, it promptly repress disappointment and disdain thereby pacifying the helpless condition of the followers, consequently awakening hope by cooling off the effects of a long term resentment and disrespect, occasioned by bad governance.
The administration of Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has navigated the political terrains of Kogi state, comprehended the multifaceted maladies which has bedeviled the citizens for ages, especially before the advent of the ruling APC in Kogi state.
Governor Ododo has discovered that the unexplainable gap existing between the government and the grassroot followers, which is posing as a wide barrier and has remained unabated.
Most often, the cries, pains and bitter expressions of the people never gets to the targeted channels for a positive move.
Resultantly, the disappointed populace become furious and head towards the polls at election period to eject what they perceived as “bad government” out of the way. Ironically, not all of those who mount the corridor of power are outrightly that bad.
In his brief ascension to the glass house, Governor Ahmed Ododo and his team have not only signalled to the society about his outstanding commitment to the welfare of the ordinary masses but his determination to ensure that the people have direct access to the seat of power.
The most recent attempt at achieving this is through the appointment of the Ward Special Assistants who are expected to lay bare the agonies, disappointments and other general opinion of the grassroots across the Wards of the twenty one Local Government Areas of the state.
Apart from the credibility embedded in this uncommon discretion of our dear Governor, the people will no longer be distant nor barred from heralding their disapproval and confidence to the one they vouched for to be their own leader .
Now that this measure of WSA is set in motion, the government is completely drawn closer to the people. Expectedly, it behoves on the Wards Special Assistants across board to ensure that a better representation is sustained.
The thought or rhetoric of raising eyebrows on the expensiveness of maintaining the WSA is inconsequential to a seasoned and visionary Governor who before now has successfully handled the State’s treasury without headache. Indeed, the directional Governor knows the loopholes of the State and is poised to fix it.
Now that his positive magical fingers are indelibly registered in every nook and crannies across the state, the entire citizens, starting from the grassroots are enthusiastically drumming support for the Governor as a sure gallant soldier who deserves their unalloyed allegiance.