The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried the hardship being experienced by the Kogi people due to the insensitive approach to governance by Governor Yahaya Bello.
At a stakeholders’ meeting of the Kogi West Senatorial district of the party held in Lokoja yesterday, the party after taking a critical look of the All Progressive Congress led administration in the state concluded that the administration has come to spread poverty, hardship and sickness as hundreds of people have been taken to their early graves due to poor economic management and insensitivity to the plights of the people.
The Chairman of the party in Kogi West, Chief Kola Ojo, said that Kogi State is currently in the hands of tyrants who has no value for human lives as the citizens are dying daily of common ailment due to lack of salary.
“Several civil servants have lost their lives through road accidents, exhaustion and cardiac arrest over the endless screening exercise foisted on the people by the government”, he said.
“This Yahaya Bello administration is heartless, inconsiderate, insensitive and irresponsive to the plight of Kogi civil servants, it has utterly failed the people as it is bereft of ideas on what to do to move the state forward.”
The party also condemned in its entirety the frequent travelings of the governor saying it is a flagrant abdication of his responsibility to give quality leadership and good governance.
The party leaders called on members to come together and wrestle power back from the ruling party.
The party said it has learnt its lessons in the last election and assured its members that by 2019 it will bounce back to win the governorship seat.
Those present at the meeting are former deputy chief of staff to the vice president, Prince Sola Akanmode; former Secretary to the State Government, Barrister Sola Ojo; former PDP state chairman, Chief Hassan Salawu; Hon. Henry Ojuola, Barrister Fabola, Alhaji Bawa, Chief Frank Ayedun, Chief Sam Abenemi, Olori Margaret Orebiyi, Chief Kola Ojo among others.
