Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is now begging the workers of the state to support his re-election come November this year.

The governor speaking through his Chief of Staff, Edward Onoja at the 7th NLC quadrennial congress in Lokoja for the first time publicly admitted that his administration has committed blunder by owing workers between eight and 38 months due to the over two years staff screening exercise he initiated.

“When a child makes mistakes he should admit he made mistakes, we have made mistakes and we are correcting it”

“The prolonged staff screening exercise is inevitable as it has brought some kind of sanity to the civil service system in the state. However, government is looking into where it has goofed with a view to correcting it.”

“On the percentage payment of local government workers, this phenomenon has been existing before the advent of the current administration.”

“I am appealing to the workers to exercise patience with the government as efforts will now be geared towards paying their salaries as and when due. I am pleading with the workers to support the re-election bid of Governor Yahaya Bello.”