The ruling of the Kogi State Election Petition
Tribunal validating the election of Governor Yahaya
Bello has been described as “the true feelings of majority
of Kogi indigenes.”
An elder statesman and former national chairman of defunct
People’s Front during General Ibrahim Babangida’s administration,
Dr. Faruk Abdullazeez stated this in Abuja, yesterday.
He said, “We in Kogi are very pleased with the verdict which
confirmed that Governor Yahaya Bello was validly elected by the good
people of Kogi State”.
The elder statesman noted that the pronouncements of the court,
proved that there was no intention ab-initio on the part of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) to do anything
outside the law as regards Governor Yahaya Bello’s election.
With the tribunal ruling, Faruk, a medical doctor by
training, therefore urged all Kogi indigenes to come together and
support the governor in the task of moving he State forward.
He said that what the state needed most was peace and
cooperation of all the people to enable the governor focus on
harnessing the potentials of the state so as to
change its economic fortunes for the better.
The elder statesman advised those who might still
be nursing some grievances to see the emergence of Governor
Bello as a divine intervention given the circumstances
of his appearance on the political stage.
He warned that nothing should be done to draw back Kogi into the
one sided nature of its politics which had for long seen the
governorship seat rotating only among the Kogi East Senatorial
district at the detriment of other ethnic groups.
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