Dipo Olowookere
The All Progressives Congress Mandate Defenders (APCMD) has reacted to a statement attributed to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada, where he lambasted his successor, Mr Yahaya Bello.
A statement issued by the group and signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Ali Mohammed, said it wondered how a man who has “no single record of achievement throughout his wasteful years in office could be accusing Governor Bello of non-performance when there are documented evidence that in all his years as ‘Jiggery-pokery-Governor’, no Nigerian President or Vice President ever entered the state to commission one or two projects done by his failed government in spite of the huge resources that entered the state as a result of the oil boom during his tenure.”
The group further wondered how Mr Wada “who was notorious for the introduction of ‘half-salary’; a scheme that denied all workers in the state their full wages and emoluments could be talking of phantom legacy in a state that was in ruin before Gov. Bello came to its rescue in 2015.”
“Is it not surprising to Wada that Gov. Bello has cleared all the debts owed to Kogi State workers within his three years in office?
“Despite the billions that goes into servicing of the debt incurred by the clueless and corrupt government of Wada every month, the Yahaya Bello administration has constructed roads, built schools, established farm settlements, brought peace and foreign investors to the state as well as created social amenities without indebting the state like the later.”
The statement said “Wada’s assertion on electoral violence has shown that he is a promoter of violence and have also revealed to electorates what he and his party members plans to do to win election at all cost without minding the existing peace in the state.”
“It has become very obvious that while Governor Bello plans to win his re-election in a free and fair contest, ex-gov. Wada and his party are planning violence because it has dawned on them that Kogites who rejected them in 2015 have no plan of accepting them back come November 16.
“We therefore call on the security agencies to put ex-gov. Wada on 24-hour surveillance since he and his wailing party are planning to wreak havoc on the state,” it added.
