The Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, has assured the people of the state that his administration would continue to provide the dividends of democracy until the end of his tenure in office.
The governor made the pledge Friday in Lokoja when he received a delegation of members of the Social Democratic Party (PDP) from the three senatorial districts of the state who had defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the November 11 governorship poll.
He urged the new members of APC to display their capacity by winning their polling units and wards to enable them benefit from the party’s reward for performance as demonstrated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He advised them not to allow “any body to deceive” them with ethnic agendas, noting that the Kogi agenda “is what APC is pursuing vigorously to transform the state.”
Earlier, the former SDP chairman in central senatorial district, Zubair Ibrahim Oyiwe, said their decision to abandon the SDP was borne out of their resolve to join “a viable party like APC that has the capacity and membership to win elections.”
In his remarks, the Kogi East zonal chairman of SDP, Isah Suleiman, said his members from Kogi East “do not believe in ethnic and religious politics and that’s the reason we decided to join the APC where all the ethnic groups in Kogi state are members.”
He assured the governor that they were “solidly behind the candidacy of Usman Ahmed Ododo” adding that APC would be victorious in the November 11 election.
