"Okun Leaders League therefore calls upon our royal fathers to resist consenting to any arrangement calculated to hoodwink, cajole, and undermine the collective intelligence of our people. Much as they are appointees of the state government, they are primarily custodians of our customs and traditions who are expected to be totally non-partisan and apolitical. Okun traditional rulers must reject anything and everything that will set them up against their people, irrespective of the level of material inducement or intimidation that has characterized godfather politics in Kogi State within the past decade.