By Oyibo Salihu
Lokoja
A group, under the aegis of National Coalition of Kogi West Youth for good governance, has dissociated its self from the purported vote of no confidence passed by Senator Dino Melaye on the Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.
The coalition vowed to resist Melaye and those groups for parading themselves as APC leaders in the state, warning them to desist from sponsoring protest against the state governor.
The President of the Coalition, Barrister Zacchaeus Dare Michael, who stated this in Lokoja yesterday at a press conference, alleged that “Melaye and his cohorts have been representing the state without any development”, warning that the governor should be allowed to execute his blueprint agenda for the state.
“These people have lost relevance in leadership of the state. They led Kogi for over 25 years, but nothing to show as the state continued to witness dearth of basic social amenities. Governor Bello has come to effect positive changes and he should be allow to do that in the interest of the people”
Michael, who was the former President of National Association of Kogi State Students (NAKOSS), stressed that Melaye as member of the National Assembly, should conserved his energy and time for legislative activities, especially, “on issues that affects his constituency rather than making unguarded statements that does not contained an iota of truth about the state governor, who within one year, has rejuvenated the board of internal revenue which hitherto can only generate a paltry sum of N300 million monthly.
“I want to say without mincing words that Governor Bello is a God sent to salvage the state and wipe away the tears of the masses. Just in the month of December last year the internally generated revenue of the state hits 1.9 billion naira which has never happen in the history of the state.
“Again, since the creation of the state, no administration, either military or civilian, has ever summoned courage to reform the civil service for effective service delivery.
