Gov. Bello Forecloses Reconciliation With Some APC Members in Kogi

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Governor Yahaya Bello may have foreclosed the hope for reconciliation in the State All Progressive Congress as he has expressed concern over some members with dual characters who hide under the reconciliation banner but do not mean well for the administration.

The Governor who spoke at the Lokoja Local Government Secretariat in his democracy day speech on Monday was speaking against the backdrop of some party executives in the diasporas who have been antagonising his administration.

In his words, “People cannot offer us reconciliation with one hand and try to stab us in the back when we embrace them.”

The APC at the National level had set up a reconciliation committee headed by Tony Momoh whose work is still ongoing with the hope of bringing the warring factions under one umbrella for a united front to confront the 2019 election.

Continuing, Bello indicated that his Administration has had the singular record of having the most malicious opposition in the history of the 4th Republic in Nigeria.

He said even those who dream of becoming Governor after had done his part and moved on have developed an unholy romance with the cup of hatred and bitterness.

‘It does not matter to them that Kogi State belongs to all of us.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.’

The Governor however indicated that the fortunate aspect is that their Animosity merely gives his Government more reason to work harder in order to prove them wrong.

In his words, “It does not matter to them that the fire they kindle among our tribes and zones today will burn them if they ever arrive at Lugard House in the future.

“They do not care that the young people they give arms today or indoctrinate with hate to make Kogi State ungovernable for Governor Yahaya Bello will become the security threats of their own period if they ever become Governor.

Bello explained further that they to get on TV or any other media to raise false alarm that Kogi State is overrun with kidnappers, armed robbers and other violent criminality at any slightest opportunity.

“It does not matter to them that the Investor they scare away with their lies today is an employer of labour and a tax-player they will not have in their own time, assuming God gives them the opportunity to lead the state.

“It is now a proven fact that they can have no joy in whatever does not paint Kogi State as the Hobbesian society of ‘continual fear, and danger of violent death…(where) life…(is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.’

He said they do not rejoice at the roads they are building, even to their own country homes or share the joy of the communities at the many water projects his administration has commissioned, or those at several degrees of completion.

“It pains them to hear of our electricity projects. Their heart is broken to hear Labour has called off their strikes and our children can go back to schools and our people can get attention in the hospitals.

“They want to die when they hear that we have concluded the Screening Exercise and have nearly completed payment of salaries and arrears because it removes the only talking point they have against us.

“Unfortunately, what they have is a lifestyle disease which no doctor can help them with unless they are willing to change. We will leave them to either purge their own consciences of evil motives, or continue to boil in their own hatred.

“The New Direction Administration may be less than 15 months in Office, but we have shown our intention to serve Kogi State with good conscience and the fear of God. We are therefore urging Kogites to judge us based on our performance, not based on malice. As Martin Luther King advised:

On the recent accusation by INEC that the Governor registered twice he said he will not join issues with the electoral body as he acknowledged that professor Mahmoud Yakubu who would build on the legacies of his predecessor.

“You can not rule out some overzealous staff in INEC who are used to old ways as people corrupting the politicians but those days are over. They should not drag the name of that institution in to the mud.

“I have confidence that our erudite professor Mahmoud Yakubu will build on the legacies left behind for him we will never join issues with INEC.”

Credit: nationalupdate.com.ng


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