By ABUBAKAR YUSUF
It is evident that since the inception of democratic practice in 1999 after the First, Second and aborted Third Republic, Nigerlites have not witnessed the level of political somersault, down turn, dislocation experienced in the last six years precisely from 2015.
This had thrown the entire populace from the big to the low in the society into some sort of political logjam that brought the need to redirect the political development of Niger state truncated since the last six years.
For the high class, it is time to go back to the drawing board to address the wide gap created by the current order not minding affiliations, creed, religion or extraction, but basically to revive good governance and people-oriented leadership for a better Niger state.
Since the problems of leadership have multiplier effects on the well-being of the people in terms of economic, social, political and infrastructural breakthrough, the need to go back to the drawing board became germane.
This is exacerbated by the protracted security threats to lives and properties that had precluded movement of the people of the state in the course of going about their legitimate endeavours.
The negative trend has doubled the poverty-ridden society due to misgovernance, lack of focus leadership, people-oriented administration that had affected all the facets of the lives of people of power state.
But in all, a decision is already in the offing for the people to return back to the good old order, under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that had transformed the state for consecutive 16 years.
This is obvious because by the time the current administration term under APC elapses in 2023, Niger state would have been not only in a sorry state, were many legacies built over the years must have been vandalised, yearning for a reform or complete rehabilitation both in human and material needs.
The PDP-led 16 years of human, economic, material and infrastructural achievements will also be yearning for rejuvenation under another era of PDP administration in 2023, with people’s mandate to Rt Hon Mohammed Sani Kutigi as the proposed man that will be on the pilot seat.
Kutigi is home-grown, house-hold name, son of the soil, a grassroots politician of high repute; an administrator per excellence, tested and trusted, and the darling of Niger state bureaucrats, technocrats, leaders, movers and shakers, stakeholders of Niger state and its political development.
His exposure, both in the private, public and political office is enough resumè to drive the needed ventilation required by Nigerlites in all areas of its development denied in the last few years.
Let's keep a date with the political history of Niger state so as to return its lost glory in 2023 with Mohammed Sani Kutigi been our sure bet.

•Abubakar Yusuf, a Journalist, writes from Abuja.