Lawmaker’s Assembly Race Withdrawal Restored Political Equity In Ogori-Magongo

In Kogi State, one lawmaker’s withdrawal from the 2027 assembly race has reopened conversations around political equity, representation and communal balance in Ogori-Magongo. IBRAHIM OBANSA reports
For generations, the people of the Ogori and Magongo communities in Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of Kogi State have sustained a delicate political understanding that promotes peace, inclusion, and mutual trust.
Though unwritten, the rotational arrangement governing the sharing of major elective positions, particularly the Local Government Chairmanship and the State House of Assembly seat, has become a stabilising force, fostering harmony and strengthening the age-old brotherhood be...