The Governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello and a member of House of Representative from Lagos state, James Faleke have disagreed on the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Kogi state chapter.
Faleke had last week Monday admitted, while addressing journalists at the end of a stakeholders meeting held at National Secretariat that there is internal wrangling in the party but declined to comment further when asked to do so.
But barely 72 hours after Faleke’s statement , Governor Bello stated that there is no any crisis whatsoever in the party.
Bello, who was responding to questions from newsmen when he also visited National Secretariat last Thursday insisted that the party is intact.
He said, “APC Kogi state is intact, strong and solid behind me and I am here in the headquarters today to discuss family matters and it went on very smoothly.
“I came here to discuss the progress of our party, the administration and progress in Kogi state.”
It would be recalled that the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun had set up a fact-finding reconciliation committee led by Prince John Momoh and report back in due time.
Bello however acknowledged the visitation of the panel to the state. He added that, “The committee came and all of us in the state met before the committee and all discussed family matters and it went very well.
“Kogi state has never been peaceful as it is today under my leadership. The state has never been that secured as it is today under my leadership and we are bound for one indivisible Kogi state.”
Speaking on allegation levelled against him by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), about payment of salary in the state, Bello responded that, “I will simply refer you to Kogi state website so you can get the fact from there.
“You are going to see from there. Four months arrears owed by the previous administration have been cleared. Month by month, Kogi state has paid its workers’ salaries as workers are being cleared.
“Those that are not cleared surely cannot be paid. If you go to our website you will see month by month, MDA by MDA and those that have not been cleared have reasons why they have not yet been cleared and that has been there. So, go and get your facts from there”, he concluded.
Credit: Sahel Standard
