Nothing exposes the poverty of governance more than the desperate attempt to manufacture achievements where citizens encounter only neglect. The article titled “False Narrative: Governor Has Done Nothing in Kogi East? The Facts Tell a Different Story” is less a defence of Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo’s record than an admission that his administration has resorted to propaganda in place of performance.
A government confident in its accomplishments does not need anonymous publicists, recycled project lists or grand declarations. It simply points to completed projects and allows the people to testify. In Kogi East, however, the loudest witnesses are not government press releases but the roads that remain impassable, the communities still isolated and the citizens who continue to ask a simple question: Where are the completed projects?
The article strings together an impressive catalogue of roads allegedly under construction or rehabilitation. Yet listing projects is not the same as delivering them. Budgetary provisions are not physical infrastructure. Announcements are not asphalt. Government promises are not development. Across Kogi East, many of the roads celebrated in the article remain in deplorable condition, with little or no evidence of meaningful work.
