Danladi Suleiman Aguye: 'Mai'nasaran Girinya' The Audacity of A True Leader

 

Abbas Yahaya

It has been discussed by many great minds and intellectuals that major set-back to a people’s development and growth is the problem of leadership. It also trite to state that there is never a people or society found in any advanced state that does not have a leader that inspires and plots the compass of their developmental advancement. Once a nation wants to progress, it is imperative for that country or state to develop a system of leadership recruitments. The stability of any nation depends on the quality of leadership it recruited for itself. This why the member representing the good people of Lokoja-Koto Federal Constituency, Hon Danladi Aguye , believes that as a representative of a people  such as Lokoja-Koto, he has a responsibility to aggrandize rather than aggravate the people whom God has placed at his disposal to lead.

This is because the recent successes recorded by this man and his party the APC across the constituency  is due to the fact that he understands the language and ethics of leadership. Aguye's leadership style has endeared him to all and sundry. No wonder he has in the short period since he ascended the green seat at the national assembly has been a lesson on political institutional leadership. His style of representatives and political persuasion has made him and the party popular and the party to beat in any election.

The character of any leader depends on his morals. We need to take into cognisance the quality of representation provided by Aguye. He has always stated that he is grateful to God and his parents for instilling in him from childhood the lessons of good character and high morals which he has translated to the success of all his endeavours. All the people he has met in life have attested to his high moral standards. The real reason our people have not gotten hold of the goods that democracy can give is when politics is not played according to its rules of engagement. Aguye habours no hatred against anybody because politics is a game of numbers and has no place for grievances. We only need to persuade our people of the soundness of our political points and manifestoes rather than the injuries we bring to play in the psyche of our people because of our old ways of playing politics. 

Hon Danladi Suleiman Aguye  has always stood by the downtrodden in our society and that is why he is loved by all. As a first time member,  he has attracted development to his area of representation and have executed project because he knows the people acknowledge development as the major muscle of politics. He always made sure that all his friends and colleagues in Lokoja and beyond occupying political positions lived up to expectations by making them stand on their toes to work for the benefit of their people who are the real owners of the office they occupy.

Today, the people of Lokoja-Koto Federal Constituency are witnessing their greatest era of development and political harmony. If leadership and representation is a stabilizing factor in development then Danladi Aguye epitomises stability and harmony. Today, as the stabilizing political personality of Lokoja-Koto he has taken upon himself the fatherly political role which ensures that his party as the ruling party is ideally respected by the people.

The perception of the people about the APC in the zone in question is high because of Aguye's leadership representation role. Today, his party the APC stands a great chance of maintaining its reign in the November 11 Kogi Gubernatorial elections, with Ahmed Usman Ododo as flag bearer. Thanks to its grassroot support. The APC being the party to beat in the state cannot afford to rest on it oars as the leadership of the party always emphasized. To the member representing Lokoja-Koto, there is no perfection in the affairs of men as there is always work to be done to make the APC deliver the dividend of democracy to the people who have been very magnanimous in voting the APC to power. 

In the area of public enlightenment and sensitisation, the 'Mai-Nasara'n Girinya' has done a lot having recognised that perception is everything in politics. He has done everything to continuously keep the image of his party high among the people of the constituency. Aguye has a unified system of solving any contentious issue among members of his party and constituents as a deliberate policy to nip any problem in the bud. In any human endeavour that is public oriented problems do occur and in recognition of this the constituency devised ready-made approach to help assuage the problems. The APC in  Lokoja-Koto is a big family with a listening father who engages all the members equally without discrimination due to influence, social strata and the individual’s standings in the society. 

The house of representative member always emphasizes that politics is about the people and everybody is important. With this approach, his party the APC is the party to beat in any election. As we approach the next election, the need for the unity of purpose in the APC can never be overemphasized as it is only the APC that can defeat itself today in Kogi state. The need for party discipline has been emphasized over and over Aguye has always advocated and used the principle of the carrot and stick in the areas of discipline and reward. Every constituents who shows loyalty to the party above self is entitled to a loyalist’s compensation as a deliberate policy and any member that wants to constitute himself into any problem for the party is reprimanded according to the constitution of the party.

Finally, the member representing Lokoja-Koto Federal Constituency leadership style has endeared him to many and made the APC a party to beat and choice in the zone. There is need for all and sundry to support Aguye in galvanizing vote for Ododo's candidacy to pilot the affairs of the constituency with unity of party across all the political office in the state for the right direction. 

Abbas Yahaya

Multimeter and Investigative Journalist

Writes From Lokoja