A former Senator from Kogi state, Dr. Alex Kadiri has expressed sadness over the crisis in the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress.
In a recent interview publish in Tribune Newspapers, Kadiri said APC as a party has not been fair to him and what he believes in.
“I am certainly not happy with the crises. How could l have worked tirelessly, spent my resources to ensure that l delivered my area totally for the All Progressives Congress and say l am satisfied. If what is going on presently is all l wanted l would not have been involved. The situation in the state is so bad that anytime l think of it I get angry, because l sacrificed so much as a person for the success of APC, up to this moment. I am kind of regretting what l did and efforts l put to dislodge the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state,” he said.
“The way out is for Governor Yaya Bello to come down from his Olympian heights to meet with those of us who actually ran the election. Don’t forget that we were almost finishing the election and the votes were being counted when Audu died. If Audu hadn’t died, all these arguments would not have come up. Yaya Bello came, and according to the Supreme Court judgment he inherited Audu’s votes but he had the supplementary election where he had six thousands votes and that was what made him the governor of Kogi State today. That was posterity and to me was his luck as l can’t question God.
“But having attained this position, for God’s sake, l want him to remain focused and be fair to everybody. l am not asking him anything beyond that. The governor of the state and the government must realise that the people who are not in government have ideas and can make contribution towards making the state better than what it is today. God has made Yaya Bello the governor of Kogi State, so be it. He was recruited into the federal civil service on level 9 in 2002. April 2015 he was on level 12 at the Federal Revenue, Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission, that was where he left to become the governor of Kogi State, he has never headed a department. His chief of staff was a banker. No experience, nothing.
“What we are saying in essence is that he should create room so that people with experience can help him. When he won the election, he set up a transition committee, which was made up of many responsible people, including a high profile journalist, Yakubu Mohammed. The committee, since it submitted its report to him, lost its relevance.
