A former senator representing Kogi West senatorial district, Senator Tunde Ogbeha, on Sunday, said the Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has not justified the power shift that many leaders of the state agitated for.
He opined that the governor, in the last nine months, had not lived up to the expectations of the people of the state as governance is at its lowest ebb.
Speaking in Lokoja, the state capital, the former military governor of Akwa Ibom and Edo states, also alleged that the planned probe of past administrations in the state was an escapist method by the present government over its failure to have something tangible to deliver to the people.
He said: “That (the probe) is an avenue of laziness and devoid of any initiative to do something, I believe in life, you look forward and not backward. The state is wasting resources and you could see the vengeance in it. You are going back to two administrations, what are you going to look at? Is there a specific case of corruption, or illegal things happened?
“There is no particular case; government is only going on a wild goose chase and that is going to commit resources. With such things, will you be able to do anything? The roundabouts were destroyed here and nothing has been used to replace them.
“It is easy for you to accuse your predecessors of all kinds of things. You should practically demonstrate and make a difference so that the people will say this administration is better than the previous ones, because they have done so and so things. But when you talk and talk and denigrate people, you are not doing any good.
“For the state, I believe that the present administration is not doing enough to justify power shift, because one would have thought that the administration would do well to justify it (power shift). For me, I have not seen that. The governor is a young man but, he has not done anything to justify being a youth or to help the youth. You need people with pedigree to run an administration; it is should not be rhetoric every day.
“He came some months back, destroyed all the roundabouts claiming he wants to put modern ones. Nothing has happened. He is just defacing the state and he comes with a slogan, New Direction, where is the direction? What is most disheartening to me is the inability of the state government to pay salaries, in spite of collecting the bailout funds. Yet ,the state government has the effrontery to utilise funds in other areas that are non-productive, buying cars,” Ogbeha fumed.
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