Igala Vanguard, a socio-political organisation has berated the Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello over his unguarded utterances in a video clip threatening Kogites over the forthcoming 2023 general election at an event he attended at Ihima in the Central Senatorial district over the weekend.
A statement personally signed by Engr Lawrence Akpa, the Secretary of the movement says it will not be business as usual for the next election in Kogi, both at the general election and Kogi State governorship election slated for November, 2023.
He challenged Kogi Governor to tackle dearth of under development, insecurity, kidnappings, banditry and lack of social services confronting his failed administration in the last six and half years, saying the threat to continue with his abrasive and contrived political empire is already empty and an empty threat from an already a drowning Governor in recent times.
He wondered why the Governor still have the courage to speak on the political leadership of Kogi, having used the common patrimony of Kogi to prosecute his failed ambition to rule Nigeria, the exercise that some Kogi delegates he so much boasted of, did not even vote for him, less of other states.
“For a Governor, who does not have a grip of state delegates despite amassing them through forceful means is shameful and a huge embarrassment of our time, rather than hiding his head in shame, decided to portray his usual follies.”
“It is obvious that Yahaya Bello is in a political logjam, hence his utterances between now and the next political dispensation will be in form of a dirge, having betrayed his political benefactors in all ramifications”
“He is left with how to confront the anti corruption agencies with his awaiting fraudulent cases and at the same time seeking for a political solution of landing and favour from the next dispensation, hence his thoughts of replaying the use of force/violence to achieve the next political arrangements in Kogi.”
Engr Akpa warned his appointees and accomplices at all levels not to mortgage their lives beyond their present predicaments of working in Governor Bello’s administration, that had made them vulnerable to anti graft agencies soon after they leave office.
He exclaimed that whoever attack or kill for politics, no matter how highly placed, will have his family or relatives anywhere to blame in the next dispensation, saying nobody had monopoly of violence both within the igala race and Kogi state in general.
The Secretary urged the people of the state to remain unperturbed over the governor’s immatured rantings, saying the era of using violence to win election is gone in Nigeria forever.
He alerted Nigeria’s President , Muhammadu and warned that under no guise should his administration feign commiseration from another round of Bello’s desire to massacre the hapless and innocent people of Kogi state , under the guise of retaining political power at all levels in Kogi state and Nigeria at large.
The body will now set the ball rolling to alert the international communities on the plans by the only Governor who is the enemy of Nigeria’s democracy to truncate the next political transition in Nigeria, saying Kogi Governor was already selling the ideas of violent approach to 2023 elections not only in Kogi state , both Nigeria at large ,as he boasted in his country home.
