The Governor Yahaya Bello administration has allegedly impoverished the people of Kogi State, former governor Ibrahim Idris claimed on Friday.
Decrying alleged hunger and lack of money in Kogi, Idris complained about the level at which Bello has allegedly debased the state and afflicted its citizens with severe pain.
“Each time I come to the State, I hear of how people are suffering and dying of hunger due to bad governance and non-payment of salaries, and sometimes when I see what our people have been reduced to, with their children dropping out of school, I feel like crying for them,” said the former governor at an awards ceremony in Lokoja, the state capital.
Idris, who was Kogi governor between 2008 and 2011, equally said the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) into power has taken the state several strides backwards in terms of development.
The former governor expressed optimism that his party, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will return to power in 2019 to liberate the people of the state.
Speaking also at the event, the Kogi PDP Chairman, Sam Uhuoto, said, “the State is in a serious lacuna and needs a committed leader to fix it,” regretting that those currently at the helms of affairs are, in his words, “clueless leaders who are now caught napping where they are supposed to give quality service to the people.”
Present at the awards show were former governor Ibrahim Idris and Idris Wada, former Senator Tunde Ogbeha, PDP National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan, and Senator Attai Aidoko amongst others.
