Kogi 2015: I Will Spring Surprise, Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Phillip Salawu, Vows

Governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the November 21 governorship election in Kogi state, Dr. Phillip Omeiza Salawu has said that though he may look an underdog but that he will spring surprise at the end of the polls.
According to him, the election would bring out the essence of the famous fight between David and the Goliath as narrated in the Bible.
Dr. Salawu who spoke to Greenbarge Reporters in an exclusive interview in Abuja, quoted a verse from the Bible which says that …the race doesn’t always go to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty, nor food to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor favor to the knowledgeable, because accidents can happen to anyone.
He made it clear that the electorate in the state have already known the three outstanding candidates contesting the election, including him, adding: “the electorates know our histories and our performances when we served them at various stages since the state was created. The three of us (Prince Abubakar Audu of All Progressives Congress, the incumbent governor under Peoples Democratic Party and him) are not new in the governance of the state.”
The LP governorship hopeful who was Deputy governor to former governor Ibrahim Idris for nine years, made it clear that he and his team would not be intimidated by what some people see as ‘giants’ simply because of the amount of money they can wield, but that he would depend mainly on his personality and what he had done for the state when he had the opportunity of serving, even as ‘spare tyre.’
Dr. Salawu said that governor Idris Wada and Prince Audu have already inadvertently cleared ground for him to win the election, explaining that while Wada had abandoned workers to their fate without salaries for months, Prince Audu had once described workers in the state as deadwood.
“Remember that Kogi is purely a civil servant state and for the so-called giants to be so rude to the civil servants means that they don’t understand the people they are supposed to be governing.
“I am also aware that our brothers and sisters in the Eastern Senatorial District are tired of producing chief executives that have not been of any benefit for the development of the area. They have now realised that their sons who have been occupying the government House only cared for themselves and their immediate families and friends.”
The LP candidate said that the people of the Eastern Senatorial District have resolved that it is better to have a governor from other part of the state who would be more dispose to correcting the backwardness they have suffered all these years than their so-called sons and daughters.
Dr. Salawu made it clear that his coming into the contest, from another Senatorial zone would defuse the political tension that has been building up for sometime now, saying that there is great danger in power monopoly which some few Igala cabals have been displaying without realizing that “it is a time bomb.”
The LP hopeful stressed that his mission is to rescue, revive and restore the lost glory of the state through equity, fairness and justice, stressing that he is not contesting for the governorship for the purpose of vengeance over the injustice that had been done in the past. [myad]