Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is now swimming in a N2 billion scandal. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) revealed that the governor wasted N2 billion on a Kangaroo rally. The PDP said spending N2 billion on a rally at a time when salaries and pensions hangover are in the region of 22 months, was wicked, callous, inhuman and insensitive to the plight of Kogites.
Governor Yahaya Bello
Kogi State PDP, Director Research and Documentation, Achadu Dickson in a statement yesterday said; “Spending of a whooping N2billion tax payers fund to organise a rally that is of no significance to the lives and well-being of Kogi People is disheartening and a glaring show of man’s inhumanity against man.”
“We wondered why Governor Bello would dole out N750,000 per polling unit in mobilization, while council administrators were also directed to mobilize 500 persons at N5000 per person when INEC has not announced the commencement of political activities.”
“It is worrisome that a governor who is planning to sell off state assets to fund 2018 budget could hire a private jet for the APC National Chairman, to attend “the cash and carry jamboree”. The governor has diverted two months Local Government Council allocation for the months of January and February 2018 to fund the jamboree in Lokoja at the expense of workers’ emoluments.”
“The purchase of vehicles by the governor, using tax payers’ money to distribute and fund an illegal State executive is an action the National APC has already described as wrongfully constituted, as wickedness of the highest order. We sympathise with Kogi State people over the hardship they are currently facing under the present administration, we assure that it will only be for awhile, as his actions are those of a drowning man.”
“Governor Bello will certainly account for all the several billions he has collected on behalf of people of the state, as judgment day is soon to catch up with him. INEC should investigate the early campaign by the governor and the APC; and also for EFCC to probe into the allege spending of the N2 billion used for the rally.”