I, MURTALA YAKUBU AJAKA, wish to join millions across the globe, and in particular, the good people of Kogi State in celebrating the birth of a New Year that holds high hopes of great developments in the lives of our citizens.
As we draw the curtain on the year 2023 with all its artificially orchestrated disappointments in our expectations, we have renewed aspiration as a people to look forward to a new year that will usher in the restoration of justice and righteousness in the democracy of our country and state.
Our people must keep faith in the ability of our great nation and it’s institutions to self regulate and arrive at solutions to problems that may challenge and threaten our collective confidence in our system.
This New Year will indeed be a year that will resolve the apprehensions and anxieties ignited by the events of the expiring year, hopefully in a manner that will satisfy the tenets of justice, good conscience and the hopes and aspirations of our people.
I wish to seize this opportunity to appeal to the good people of Kogi State to remain law abiding and peaceful notwithstanding the outcome of the intractable challenges to our democracy and cohesion as a people – as we await the institutional determination of our consolidated concerns in the integrity of our system.
Once more, on behalf our my family and the teeming supporters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP),
I wish us all a very happy and fulfilling New Year.
Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka,
Governorship Candidate, Social Democratic Party (SDP), Kogi State.
Ajaka, January 1, 2024.