
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has blamed the lingering rift
between him and Senator Dino Melaye on his refusal to waste the
available scarce resources of the state.
He made this known in a phone interview on Channel TV’s Politics Today anchored by Seun Okinbaloye and monitored by DAILY POST
According to Bello, “We are aware of a particular senator who wants elephants to be shared in Kogi State and I refused.
“The people of the state must have value for the lean resources that
we are generating, and we are receiving; if that is his problem, so be
it,” he said when asked to react to his disagreement with Senator
Melaye..
The Governor also denied any involvement in the attack on the senator representing Kogi Central, Mr Ahmed Ogembe.
He said: “First of all, on that day Senator Ogembe was attacked, I
was in Kano. I had just received a message of a senator coming home to
do empowerment; the next thing was the crisis that ensued.”
Amid the political crisis in the state, the governor said the police
have begun investigations into the incident while a lot of arrests have
been made.
DAILY POST recalls that some
senators had accused the governor during plenary of introducing
policies that could degenerate into a political issue if not properly
handled.
He, however, took a swipe at the lawmakers for failing to address national issues such
as passing the 2018 Appropriation Bill presented by President Muhammadu
Buhari to the National Assembly in November 2017, among several others.
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