To preempt any misconceptions of seeing this honest submission as product of sponsored damage control efforts, let me start by setting the record straight. My followers on this street are well aware that I have consistently and publicly expressed my disapproval of the undemocratic process that led to Barr Kassah’s emergence, and I can say it even at the roof top that I am not favorably disposed to his candidature owing to his shoddy past leadership record. 


I recently read online a petition against the PDP chairmanship flagbearer of Guyuk local government, Barr Kassah that is alleged to have originates from his kinsmen in Guyuk. I don’t know their mission and intentions and I am also not against their aspirations and objectives, but I feel orchestrating and sowing the seed of politics of victimization in our community at dusk will set a dangerous precedent that will have a long-lasting damaging effects on our community, leaving a deep scars that will be hard to heal at down.


As siblings of the same womb called Nungurala nation, we all have our own skeletons in our closet. If we start the game of blowing ‘nyash’ of each other open for public ridicule, it will reach a point in the future where casualties will be more than survivors and posterity will judge us harshly for prioritizing political scores over kinship and unity.


I don’t want to discuss the content of the petition but I feel the petition can be best likened to campaign after election. The deal has been done and no amount of petition that will reverse his candidature. In Nigerian politics, chairmanship is a mere ordination programme and once Governor endorsed your candidature, you will only take bow before the officials of State Independent Electoral Commission and leave. I don’t need to tell you what will happen in the court if you petition the candidate after the elections. 


At the end of the day, the petition and fiasco will only achieve bitterness, hatred and hostility that will lingers instead of the original objective of settling scores among the warring parties for political points. In my honest opinion, I advise that the dark shadows behind the petition of Kassah should consider sheathing their sword for community interest and its unseen implication in the future.