The Graphic, Please Be Fair
PLEASE permit me a space in your newspaper, The Graphic to first commend the management and staff for a good job. It is my prayer that God will continue to grant you the wisdom and the capacity to excel.
More than this, it is my prayer that God will grant the management the courage and the sincerity to be fair to all parts of the state.
The Graphic is expectedly supposed to be the voice of all the people of the state because it is being funded from the collective resources of all citizens of the state.
I urge that the management should resist the temptation of being champions of any section of the state. As journalists, I appeal that they should rise above, sentiment.
You are supposed to be the mirror of the society and therefore, you must refuse to conform to the dictates of your various ethics groups.
Some of our people in the Okun speaking area of the state have the feeling that many a times, the paper is used to propagate the sentiments of a section of the state. Please, let’s use the paper to promote peace and concord among all the federating units of the state.
I am an avid reader of The Graphic and I can say that the paper has good hands and I believe that whoever is in any position of authority in the organization, got such appointment on merit.
I have never subscribe to the notion that appointments were made on the basis of where any one comes from but my appeal is that the greater good of the state should be paramount in your mind while discharging your duties.
Be prepared to ask yourselves each time you write your stories that should this story concern my people, will I be honest enough to write it the way I have done?
Let us resist any attempt to make us use our pens to destroy any ethnic group or cause disaffection between the ethnic groups. For now, I think you have been fair enough but you can still do better.
Please, accept this advice in good faith. It is not meant to castigate anyone.
Aderogba Adekunle
Ejuku-Yagba East LGA.

Re-Documents Against Faniyi Were Forged
I read the story on the above and after I did, the issue kept agitating my mind. I cannot fathom how fellow human beings would go to any extend to destroy their fellow beings. Is it out of envy or sheer wickedness?
Hon. J.J. Faniyi, Kogi State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, may not be a saint but the truth remains that he is one of the most credible politicians in Kogi State.
Before he joined the murky waters of politics, he has used his personal resources to meet the needs of people. Even at the moment, he is the only political office holder that is accessible and when he is approached with a need, he goes out of his way to meet such need. He is not the self-centered kind of politician we have in the state. It is not in his character to run away from people. His home and office are opened to all.
Perhaps, it is his growing popularity that is making some people uncomfortable to the extend that they want to destroy him at all cost.
They should be reminded however that whoever God blesses, no one can curse. Faniyi’s tomorrows is not in anyone’s hands. If he is destined to be at the senate in 2011, no one can stop him.
For him, the senatorial race is not a do–or–die. So, I am yet to understand why his opponents have refused to see it in like manner. If they destroy him, what do they hope to achieve?
Please, let Faniyi be.
Iyiola Rohman
Lokongoma, Lokoja.