The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) Kogi state chapter against recourse to violence and ethnic politics.
The party also warned the APC to get ready to face the electoral consequences of the serious issue of poor governance it foisted on the people of the state in the last four years.
The PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, who gave the warning during the party campaign inauguration in Lokoja at the weekend, said the ongoing attempts by the APC to ethnicise and cause violence during the November 16th governorship election would not work for the party.
Ologbondiyan urged Governor Yahaya Bello to get ready for his electoral defeat as he has an empty score card despite the over N700 billion he collected on behalf of the Kogi people from federation account, internally generated revenue, bailout funds, ecological funds, infrastructural development funds, among others.
The opposition party described the APC administration led by Governor Bello as a complete failure, stating that it is an embarrassment to the people of the state who are known in the country and beyond for their integrity and industry in all areas of human endeavours.
The PDP lamented that the people of Kogi state have suffered untold hardship, pain and agony under the present administration, and advised Governor Bello to start preparing his hand over notes as the people are determined to vote him out on November 16.
“The people of Kogi state have suffered enough under Governor Yahaya Bello and the APC. Many of our citizens have lost their loved ones and their breadwinners.
“They have lost husbands, wives, children and other loved ones to the excruciating hardship caused by non-payment of their salary and pensions by Governor Bello. There is no way he can be re-elected”, he said.
He assured that non-payment of salaries, allowances and pensions would become a thing of the past under a PDP-led administration as from January 28, 2020
Ologbondiyan, therefore, urged the electorate to remain firm and resolute in their standing with the PDP governorship candidate, Engr Musa Wada, in the collective quest to rescue the state from anti-people forces.
In swift reaction, the Director General Media and Publicity to Governor Bello, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, said there was no ned to join issues with the PDP stressing that even Ologbodiyan knows the truth.
Fanwo said Governor Yahaya Bello has united the state more than any governor before him, noting that It was the PDP candidate who said he could win with Igala votes alone.
On the N700 billion revenue claim, Fanwo said “this is one of their many Dubai figures. PDP is struggling to stand after the gale of defections that hit it as droves of their members and founding fathers have rejected the controversial emergence of a man who claimed on a national television that there is a Federal Medical Center in Kabba”.
