Governor Yahaya Bello is many things to many people, often described by the critics as lacking the required experience and maturity to govern a state. But to us, he is courageous, astute and creative; a man with a big heart and strong will, and the best governor Kogi has ever produced.
Governor Yahaya Bello came on board to redefine government, governance and public service in the state. There had been a prevailing order. In that order, government was about self-preservation and rewards, where appointments and contract award had everything to do with rewarding loyalists, ensuring maximum returns on investment and blocking perceived opposition from any access.
While the previous administration before now were dominated by one ethnic group in the state, Governor Yahaya Bello came on board and successfully pulled down those walls of ethnicity by assembling competent and resourceful aides from all over the state to work with him irrespective of tribe or religion, a move that even the governor’s kinsmen are not too comfortable with.
The other monumental sin made by the governor is that over 90% of his appointments are for the youth. The people who expect the government to fail as a result of youthfulness are surprise by its performance. In view of this, the old generation leaders who had failed the people became uncomfortable and thereby constituted themselves into an opposition to fight the government's policy at any given opportunity, not minding the success it has achieved on security, infrastructural development and the massive flushing out of ghost workers in the state civil service.
Before now, there were many people in the civil service that are not qualified to be there. Some are working with fake certificates, some collects salaries in two or three places. The rot was monumental that placed a burden on the governor to reform the system with the introduction of staff verification exercise. The strategy is a veritable weapon against wage fraud in almost all the states of the federation. Our case in Kogi is not peculiar, not the way it has been portrayed in the media.
To the opposition, any attempt to make gain of every situation in the state will turn counter-productive. Let us play down politics and rebirth a new Kogi based on love and mutual respect for all political divides, religious orientations, social persuasions, and ethnic affiliations.
To the youth of Kogi state, this is our government. Governor Yahaya Bello is one of us, and we must take ownership and support him to succeed in order to put the cabals to shame in any future election.
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God bleess us all!
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