Our attention has just been drawn to an online publication of some set of busy bodies and their agents/cronies alluding Senator Lola Ashiru's action to publicize his quest for Legislative Aides publicly a slap to Kwara Southerners.

I need to bluntly state here that advertising to get the best hands shouldn't be regarded as an insult but a laudable intention to hire the best hands for an optimal performance.

We have been accustomed to a practice of hiring family members, cronies and sometimes family members as Aides to Distinguished lawmakers, and the results seem not to have endeared us to the lawmakers.

An attempt not to make the affair an exclusionist affair shouldn't be a subject of ridicule by a few masquerading themselves as a "movement".

The essence of his advertisement via a consultant is clear and never ambiguous: "get the best of hands".

What the People of Kwara South are better concerned with is the output. To wit:- getting the best results from a people oriented Lawmaker.

Kwara Southerners have reposed their confidence in Senator Ashiru and it beholves on him not to betray such trust.

At the end of a 4 year tenure, Kwara Southerners would not be interested in whom he appointed as Aides but what he is able to achieve within his 4- year reign as their Representative in the Red Chamber.

One would simply not ask him to compensate or appreciate people or families who suffered one casualty or the other. That is believed to be one of his Cardinal principles towards sustaining his support base, but should not be a yardstick to appoint his aides. That would equate asking him to appoint an aide from every family that supported him to emerge as Kwara South Senator.

The Distinguished Senator has been sent on an errand and should be allowed to chose those he feels would assist him in fulfilling his mandate to his people.

Kwara South Movement were known to be proud supporters of the Saraki administration and the erstwhile Kwara South Senator; Senator Rafiu Ibrahim and one would ordinarily expect them to commence the ventilation of their anger.

Senator Rafiu holds the ace, he would be adjudged by his performance after his 4 year representation and should not give in to distractions as this is a time to build the foundation of his representation sojourn at the Red Chamber.

We urge all and Sundry, especially in Kwara South to keep supporting the Distinguished Senator in his bid to offer a distinct representation of Kwara South for the next Four Years.


Signed:

Barrister Joseph Titilope Akogun
Convener, Kwara South Youth Coalition
southcoalition@gmail.com