The political direction of Sunday Steve Karimi, Representative addressing Kogi West in the tenth Public Gathering is one specked by many curves and contorts. The child of a means rancher, Karimi hails from the dominatingly Christian people group of Egbe, Yagba West Neighborhood Gathering in present day Kogi State.
Impelled simply by assurance, tirelessness and self-control, he later prepared as a creation specialist and he turned into a key part in Nigeria’s water assets area. He additionally did well in his confidential organizations. He was prepared at the popular Titcombe School, Egbe, in Yagba West Board, Kogi State which was laid out by the Sudan Inside Mission (SIM). He consequently continued to the Kwara State School of Innovation.
In his political vocation, Karimi in a real sense got over mountains and rocks, each with its exceptional scenes and obstructions. Be that as it may, similar to any man bound to be amazing some day, destiny revised his story. Karimi started dynamic support in legislative issues at the introduction of the fourth republic in 1999 when he challenged for the Place of Delegates seat of Yagba Government Body electorate on the foundation of Individuals’ Progressive alliance (PDP).
Back then, the PDP offered the surest stage for any serious wannabe planning to challenge and win a political decision in Kogi West. In those bygone times, “political dinosaurs” from Kogi West PDP incorporated the unbelievable Aro of Mopa, late Boss Sunday Awoniyi; once Military Legislative leader of Old Western Locale, General David Jemibewon (rtd) and trailblazer Kogi PDP Executive, Dr Kayode Ige.
There were likewise a previous Government Magistrate in one of the divisions in the Administration, Boss James Katugwa and the late Dr Stephen Olorunfemi, who later arose gubernatorial banner conveyor of the PDP for the 1999 surveys. This rundown won’t be finished without the late industrialist and previous Priest of Public Preparation, Boss Silas Daniyan who, in any case, used to have a place with the outdated All Individuals’ Party, (Application). Baba Daniyan who held the chieftaincy title of Ojomu of Mopa, would later collaborate with his brother, Baba Awoniyi in the PDP.
The rundown would later develop to oblige any semblance of Brig.- Gen Tunde Ogbeha (rtd), who later arose Representative for Kogi West zone; quintessential civil servant, Ruler Olusola Akanmode, who later became Head of Staff, to the VP, and the business tycoon, Boss Jide Omokore. Additionally in the plan were Boss Kola Jamodu, who later became Industry Clergyman in the Olusegun Obasanjo administration; highbrow administration expert, Otunba Funsho Owoyemi who led the then compelling Okun New Drive (ONI).
The Congressperson choose during the cut short Sani Abacha junta progress, Alhaji Ado Shaibu, and Alhaji Musa Ahmadu who later filled in as part, Place of Agents for Lokoja/Kotonkarfe administrative supporters in the fifth public gathering and consequently Secretary to Kogi State Government (SSG), among others.
Back to the 1999 surveys. Baba Awoniyi an initial architect of the PDP who likewise made major decisions at the public level, was at the motor room of political designing in Okunland and Kogi West zone, separately. The stage was set for that all year’s of decisions to introduce chose pioneers. It was at the beginning of the multi-party fourth equitable regulation. It was as of now that mostly secret Sunday Karimi joined the race for the ticket of the PDP in Yagba Government Electorate.
He challenged close by Olori Margaret Orebiyi, Boss Shola Ojo and Boss Tolorunjuwon Joseph Faniiyi. Yagba government body electorate incidentally, comprises of three neighborhood gatherings, in particular Mopamuro, Yagba East and Yagba West. Every neighborhood government region handled contender for the Place of Delegates essential which included Ojo, (Mopamuro); Faniyi (Yagba East) and Karimi/Orebiyi, (Yagba West).
Orebiyi would later step down for Karimi who drove in the essential political decision on the strength of Yagba West’s unrivaled 14 electing wards. Mopamuro and Yagba East have 10 electing wards each. In any case, in the essential political race which was at last chosen through the flipping of a coin, Ojo was leaned toward. Karimi was influenced by the older folks to stand by till the following round of decisions, after four years. Ojo a lawyer who was until now domiciled in Kano the imposing center point of business in northern Nigeria, proceeded to win the overall political race. He crushed the late lawful symbol, Boss Tunji Arosanyin, who was the applicant of the All Public’s. Party, (Application).
Ojo served in the green chamber from 1999 to 2003. There was shared comprehension between the three Yagba neighborhood chambers that up-and-comers from every area will serve only one term after which the position would move consistently to the following nearby government region in a specific order. Candidates for the 2003 PDP ticket included Karimi, Faniyi, Mrs Funmi Abiodun, a legal counselor; Port Harcourt based amount assessor and master in the Marine area, Bode Olorunsola and J.K Odeyemi, a specialist.
The essential political race was set out toward an overflow however the elderly folks in their insight, canceled it. In light of basic larger part, Faniyi won the ticket. He proceeded to overcome his adversary in the reconfigured Application, which had then turned into the All Nigeria Individuals’ Party, (ANPP), Mrs Justina Abanida, once Official for Equity and Principal legal officer.
For Karimi, the cat-and-mouse game to realize his aspiration of addressing Yagba individuals extended on to 2007, which anyway didn’t occur, in any event, when the Seat pivoted to Yagba West. The surviving rotational course of action restricted Mopamuro and Yagba East from handling possibility for the 2007 Reps political decision. In decency to the progressive tenants of the seat, execution was not a measuring stick for congruity. Thusly in 2007 when it ought to appropriately have been the turn of Yagba West, trusts were overflowing that Karimi would be given the right of first refusal, all things considered.
In any case, power isn’t given, it is taken. Such was the situation of the ran any desires for Karimi in the 2007 episode. He lost the PDP ticket at that year’s primaries to an individual Yagba West rival, Samuel Bamidele Aro. Aro, an effective oil advertiser, won that year’s political race hung on April 21, 2007. He crushed Bolaji Oluwafemi of the old Activity Congress (AC) and served in the Green Chamber till 2011.
Following his third in a row “misfortune”, after the 2007 episode, Karimi picked to stop the stage, swearing off his political desire. In any case, it was not to be. Destiny modified his direction. Decisively, in a succession of occasions past every political change, Karimi got the command of Yagba individuals to address them in the 2011 Place of Delegates political race, when he didn’t aim for it.
He was not even on the rundown of hopefuls jarring for the much-looked for ticket of the PDP in that year’s primaries. Likewise, he got it when it was believed to be the turn of Mopamuro in light of the by and large acknowledged rotational plan inside the government voting demographic.
PDP coincidentally, had broken into groups. Following a remarkable initial term, the officeholder Samuel Aro had pronounced his expectation to look for a subsequent term. Supported by the then Lead representative Ibrahim Idris and the decision Kogi State PDP hardware around then, Aro crushed his solitary challenger for the PDP ticket, Boss Folorunsho Daniyan, in a quarrelsome essential political race. The interaction was spotted by discussion over the legitimacy of the rundown of public representatives of the party, conveyed for the essential political race.
Nonetheless, the result of the primaries didn’t agree with the factional PDP who enticed on Karimi to emerge from “retirement”. Karimi’s name was a latest possible moment consideration in the entrance of the Free Public Electing Commission (INEC) as the up-and-comer of the not so established Activity Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state.
In what turned out a noteworthy dissent vote, Karimi crushed PDP’s Aro in the overall political decision hung on April ninth, 2011 in Yagba Government Electorate. The strength of the PDP had been additionally destroyed because of the way that Daniyan, in the repercussions of the questionable PDP essential, consequently fled of the ANPP, coming third in the overall political decision.
Four years subsequent to, following his re-visitation of his old party, PDP, Karimi looked for re-appointment in 2015 and picked the PDP ticket in front of Kano based business mogul and giver, Leke Abejide and effective structural specialist, Dele Obiniyi.
Karimi proceeded to win the parliamentary political decision hung on Walk 28, 2015, against Hon Ganiyu Salaudeen of the Understanding Party (AP), Kayode Adebayo (APC), and Joseph Gift of the Work Party (LP). He impacted the world forever turning into the primary lawmaker to win a second term throughout the entire existence of Yagba Government Supporters races.
That record would later be equalled by Hon Leke Abejide, who is on his subsequent term, after his consecutive triumph in 2019 and 2023 races. Abejide has two times won the Yagba government seat, under the foundation of less popular African Vote based Congress (ADC).
Moved by the craving to “accomplish more”, in the wake of finishing two terms of eight years in the Green Chamber where he set up a broadly acclaimed execution, Karimi’s center moved to the Upper Chamber.
He was a main contender for the 2019 Kogi West Senate seat yet the then Uche Secondus-drove PDP Public Working Board of trustees (NWC) had different thoughts, for example, the disliked choice to give to all sitting Representatives programmed tickets. Consequently, Karimi and different competitors for the Kogi PDP senate’s ticket like Hon Tajudeen Yusuf, the then Place of Delegates part for Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Government Supporters and Boss Clarence Olafemi, previous Speaker, Kogi Gathering had their desires forfeited on the change of the programmed ticket of the party gave to Representative Dino Melaye, another comer to the party.
Karimi and those so disappointed kicked against the choice, while the PDP public initiative adhered to its weapon. The party then went further to use the huge stick with the rug preclusion of the fighting aspiran
