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Vanguard, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2022 — 33<br />
OGBEIFUN<br />
I, formerly known, call and<br />
addressed as. OGBEIFUN<br />
ITOHAN JENNIFER but,now<br />
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as.OKORAWHE ITOHAN<br />
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AMADI<br />
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CHINENYE SUNSHINE as it is<br />
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ISHIOMA JUDITH. Now wish<br />
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OTUWE PATIENCE INIKPI.<br />
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2023: A referendum on<br />
continuity of Nigeria as<br />
a nation —Adoji<br />
•It’s time for senators to stop functioning as LGA chairmen<br />
•Why I am running for Kogi East senate seat<br />
By Clifford Ndujihe<br />
Dr Victor Alewo Adoji, 51, ran<br />
for the Kogi East Senatorial seat<br />
on the platform of the African<br />
Democratic Congress, ADC, in<br />
2019 and came third.<br />
Educated in Nigeria and<br />
abroad on various fields, the<br />
former banker, who left the<br />
Zenith Bank as head of<br />
corporate communication<br />
after two decades in the sector,<br />
in this interview, spoke on the<br />
state of the nation, the politics<br />
of Kogi, and why he is running<br />
for Kogi East senatorial seat on<br />
the platform of the Peoples<br />
Democratic Party, PDP, among<br />
others.<br />
On why he did not<br />
win in 2019<br />
IN 2019, I didn't get the<br />
ticket on the platform of<br />
the PDP, which is actually my<br />
preferred party. I had to go to<br />
another party, the ADC. It was<br />
a very successful outing but the<br />
typical Nigerian politics<br />
happened to me. I know that<br />
if I ran on the platform of the<br />
PDP at that time, it would have<br />
been a landslide victory<br />
because the PDP is a very<br />
entrenched party in Kogi East.<br />
It is actually a traditional<br />
party in Kogi East. I was not<br />
lucky to get the PDP ticket at<br />
that time but this time, I am<br />
running on the platform of the<br />
PDP, we are very hopeful of a<br />
successful outing.<br />
In 2019, the All Progressives<br />
Congress, APC, came first,<br />
PDP came second, and I came<br />
third, within three months of<br />
bringing a new party to the<br />
platform.<br />
If elected, what difference<br />
will you make?<br />
What I will do differently is to<br />
ensure Kogi East produce a<br />
senator for the first time<br />
because all you have there are<br />
actually not senators. You have<br />
a senator, whose achievement<br />
is classrooms, renovating<br />
culverts, trying to seemingly<br />
to revive moribund industries<br />
and all sorts. Those are<br />
typically the duties of local<br />
government chairman. You<br />
have senators, especially from<br />
my own side of the world, who<br />
function more in terms of<br />
constituency projects. The<br />
work of a Senator is to propose<br />
bills and make laws, move<br />
motions and then oversight and<br />
override the government and its<br />
agencies. For the first time in a<br />
very long time, I will be a senator,<br />
not a local government<br />
chairman under the garb of a<br />
senator.<br />
Constituency projects form<br />
part of dividends of<br />
democracy…<br />
I have not said that I will not<br />
give cognizance to constituency<br />
projects, all I said is I will not<br />
upend the basic fundamental<br />
work of a senator for the work of<br />
a local government chairman.<br />
Come to think of it, the only<br />
reason there is so much focus on<br />
constituency project is because<br />
either by omission or<br />
•Adoji<br />
commission, people have<br />
usurped the work of the local<br />
government chairman. So, if we<br />
give genuine autonomy to the<br />
local governments, senators will<br />
focus on their primary<br />
responsibility. The work of a<br />
chairman is not the work of a<br />
senator and we must have a clear<br />
delineation between these two.<br />
Why he is going to the Senate<br />
When you elect<br />
someone into a<br />
particular office<br />
there are<br />
expectations from<br />
that office. What is<br />
happening to the<br />
state of deficit in<br />
my state: housing<br />
deficit, number of<br />
out-of-school<br />
children?<br />
So, my going to the Senate is<br />
because I have a good<br />
understanding of the workings<br />
of government and the<br />
knowledge that would fix our<br />
policies, our laws, and our<br />
systems. The parliament has an<br />
oversight, and override function<br />
over the executive so our<br />
burgeoning loans today people<br />
will leave the blame with the<br />
Buhari administration what<br />
about those who approved it?<br />
If elected don’t you think being<br />
a fresh senator will affect your<br />
impact because of senior and<br />
ranking senators?<br />
When we talk about ranking, we<br />
actually talk about personalities<br />
and the number of times you<br />
have been in the National<br />
Assembly. We should talk about<br />
ranking in terms of ideas. So, I<br />
will rank anybody higher than<br />
me whose ideas are superior to<br />
mine. The work of the Senate is<br />
to bring ideas that will basically<br />
move the country forward. If<br />
your idea is better than mine, then<br />
you have a better ranking not<br />
because you've been there for<br />
four, five, six, seven years.<br />
Secondly, I am more than<br />
confident that my party, PDP, will<br />
be at the centre in 2023 because<br />
on a scale of 1-10, the APC has<br />
performed below 3, Nigerians<br />
are tired, Nigerians are sick,<br />
Nigerians are weary. To a large<br />
extent when they hear the name<br />
APC it gives them goose pimples<br />
and fever.<br />
His advice to INEC, security<br />
agencies on 2023 polls<br />
The 2023 elections stand on<br />
three legs. One it is a referendum<br />
on whether we need to continue<br />
as a country. Second, it is a<br />
referendum on whether<br />
Nigerians can be independent<br />
in terms of the agencies – the<br />
INEC, the security and others.<br />
Third, we must take a decision<br />
that we must make progress.<br />
INEC has no choice but to do<br />
the right thing. For the first time<br />
they should know that Nigerians<br />
own them. Professor Mahmood<br />
Yakubu has said his<br />
responsibility is to Nigeria and<br />
to Nigerians. I hope he means it.<br />
Just like he is watching the<br />
process, Nigerians are watching<br />
him. To the security agencies,<br />
their allegiance, like they say<br />
most times is to the commanderin-chief<br />
so if they ask you to go<br />
and do something wrong, you<br />
will go ahead and do something<br />
wrong, but they should know that<br />
even the commander-in-chief,<br />
was actually put in place by<br />
some people. After all Buhari has<br />
said go out there and vote the<br />
party you want and any person<br />
you want that he wants to stand<br />
as neutral. I hope he stands true<br />
to it.<br />
On his assessment of<br />
governance in Nigeria and in<br />
Kogi State<br />
The best way to assess<br />
governance, particularly in my<br />
state, is to move from outcome<br />
to ownership. When you elect<br />
someone into a particular office<br />
there are expectations from that<br />
office. Are my people better<br />
today? Have they been better in<br />
both relative and absolute terms?<br />
What is happening to the state<br />
of infrastructure? What is<br />
happening to the state of deficit<br />
in my state: housing deficit,<br />
number of out-of-school<br />
children? All these have move<br />
southwards in Kogi State. So, I<br />
can say verifiably that<br />
governance has been below suboptimal<br />
in Kogi State.<br />
I read a report in Vanguard that<br />
we have about 133 million<br />
people living below the poverty<br />
line today in Nigeria. Now,<br />
when you look at the<br />
burgeoning debt, rate of<br />
inflation, rate of foreign<br />
currency exchange, what<br />
further assessment do you<br />
need? Forget about those highsounding<br />
GDP figures, it is<br />
about how it directly impacts<br />
the common man, and if you<br />
look at that, this government<br />
has performed abysmally.<br />
It is actually for them to<br />
understand the challenges in<br />
the first place. This is a<br />
government that seems to think<br />
our problems are revenue<br />
problems. Nigeria’s problem<br />
isn't a revenue problem. $700<br />
million dollars was returned<br />
from Abacha loot, what they<br />
said to us is that they have<br />
applied this money to those<br />
who are poor on the lower rung<br />
of the ladder, yet you have more<br />
people in poverty. It means that<br />
our problem isn't a revenue<br />
problem.<br />
Ours is an enterprise or<br />
innovation problem.<br />
Encourage people to be<br />
industrious, so that it is their<br />
industry that will now involve<br />
the capital that will possibly<br />
impact the economy.<br />
It is about wrong interpretation<br />
of the nuances in the economy.<br />
So they need to understand<br />
what the problems are.<br />
Two, it should not matter<br />
whether you are Igbo, Igala,<br />
Hausa, Idoma or Yoruba, it<br />
should be more about your<br />
competence, I have never seen<br />
such level of nepotism in the<br />
history of this country. It is not<br />
about who your brother or<br />
sister is. It is about can this<br />
person truly do the job?<br />
So long as we continue to<br />
encourage foreign goods and<br />
services, money will never be<br />
retained here in the country. So<br />
when people talk about foreign<br />
direct investors coming to help<br />
us in the country, I will just give<br />
you a statistics that it is all<br />
bunkers. Of the 70 trillion<br />
dollars in management<br />
globally, only about 2 trillion<br />
dollar is involved in foreign<br />
direct investment, so most<br />
capital stays back home. Of the<br />
two trillion dollars we are<br />
talking about, out of the 196+<br />
countries that we have, only 36<br />
countries account for at least<br />
73% of investment and most<br />
of them are OECD countries.<br />
So, Africa particularly is not<br />
even considered when it comes<br />
to some of these investments.<br />
So, we need to revive our local<br />
economy, we need to look at<br />
our and our BoT, balance of<br />
payment, BoP and balance of<br />
trade, oT. What are you<br />
exporting? What are you giving<br />
to the country? We need to<br />
come back and think inwards.<br />
We must, first and foremost,<br />
change our psychological,<br />
mental and sociological<br />
attitude because most of our<br />
economic problems are<br />
actually sociological and<br />
psychological problems.<br />
Through the instrumentality of<br />
the Ministry of Orientation, it's<br />
time to let Nigerians know<br />
what the situation is; change in<br />
attitude will more than give us a<br />
necessary impact.