Engr. Bala Oma of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) has formerly declared his interest in running for Kogi State governorship elections in 2019.
Oma made his intention known in Jos at the weekend while speaking with newsmen on developments in Kogi State that he said required urgent surgical operation.
He said the people of Kogi State deserved good governance from a leader who has what it takes to make life meaningful for his people and regretted that Governor Bello’s emergence as Governor of Kogi State has turned out to be a disaster in the confluence state.
The aspirant said that Governor Bello even though fell within the age of the youth group in Kogi State, his emergence and outing for over two years now in the state did not suggest that he represented the interest of the youths of the state.
He said Governor Bello rather came to power in Kogi State riding on the back of the power that be at the Presidential Villa and Northern interest that has nothing to offer the down trodden people of Kogi State.
He claimed that it was not all young people that have something to offer to their people as there were some youths whose mission of getting into power is to represent the interest of their godfathers in governance at the expense of the people of their state.
Oma said that his vision and mission to take over power from Governor Bello in 2019 in Kogi State was to restore the lost glory of the state to its original vision of the founding fathers and at the same time, ensure that within his first four years in office, put the state into the class of first 10 states that would be rated as infrastructural and economically viable in the country.
He said, “Kogi State is the biggest well-endowed state with abundant mineral resources waiting to be tapped by would be investors to boost the economic fortunes of the state.”
He regretted that those who were in power in the state before now and the current government of Bello were only interested in federal allocations to the state from the federation account which he said had had been diverted for their personal use at the expense of the people.
He called on the electorate in Kogi State to make a choice between worst government that the APC had given them and best the government that ADP was going to offer to them come 2019.
