Shortly after Senator Dino
Melaye released a video, mocking Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and
further accusing him of being the brain behind the political thugs linked to
him, the Senator representing Kogi West in the red chamber has gone ahead to share
an incriminating photo which he linked to Governor Yahaya Bello.
Sharing the photo on
Facebook, he wrote;
The deception of Yahaya
Bello (419). Foreign and local rice mixed together to produce Yahaya’s
confluence rice. And Yahaya said the rice was grown in Kogi. May God help us in
Kogi SDM.
In a 2017 interview,
Senator Dino Melaye, said that his
seemingly unhealthy grouse with the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, had
to do with Bello’s penchant for owing workers’ salaries and pension.
According to Melaye, his
fight was for Kogi workers and pensioners, who were suffering and dying,
following what he described as governor Bello’s non-payment of 15-month
salaries and pensions. He further disclosed that he was fighting the governor
because all the tertiary institutions, including the State Polytechnic, College
of Education and the University have been under lock and key for five months
following the strike embarked on by the lecturers.
He added that doctors in
the state have also been on strike, because of the governor’s adamancies
towards the payment of salaries and pensions.
According to Dino Melaye,
the Governor was siphoning the State’s money under the guise of Caretaker
Committees and had refused to conduct local government elections in the state.
He said: “Yahaya Bello
collected N20bn from the Federal Government as bailout fund. Still, he refused
to settle workers.
“He also collected N11bn
from the Paris Club fund. Still, he refused to pay workers and pensioners.”
“All I am asking for is
good governance.
“Children can no longer go
to school. Tenants can no longer pay their house rent. Enough is enough! The
people of Kogi State are tired of this government.
“The advent of Yahaya Bello
as governor and Taofiq Isah as local government administrator in the political
history of Kogi State has brought this unfortunate socio-political paradigm
shift.”
Melaye should grow up
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