Kogi East

The announcement by the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aliyu Umar Yusuf, that the Assembly intends to enact a law providing a statutory framework for power rotation deserves something more substantial than applause or condemnation. It deserves rigorous public interrogation. At the summit in Lokoja, the Speaker reportedly declared: “The Assembly will pass a law on power rotation. Whoever is not comfortable should go to court.

There was a time when the mere mention of Kogi evoked a certain pride—a pride born not merely of geography, but of possibility. Kogi, the Confluence State, was created on the promise that people who had been scattered across different political and administrative jurisdictions could finally come together under one identity, one government and one destiny. One People, One Destiny was more than a slogan; it was a statement of hope.