Kogi state Governor Yahaya Bello has warned the opposition parties in state against actualising their alleged plans to import machineries and other agents of violence from other states to unleash terror and disrupt Saturday’s governorship and senatorial elections.
Speaking against the win at all cost syndrome while campaigning at Anyigba, Dekina/Bassa federal constituency rally of the All Progressive Congress (APC) ahead of the November 16 governorship election, the governor said no amount of evils and sinister plans can hamper the integrity of the election.
He therefore warned those planning to unleash terror on the people to desist forthwith such plans, stressing that whoever would be caught would to face the full wrath of the law.
“It is only a bastard that will invite foreigners to come and kill his people because of election.
“Please do me a favour, youth, women and residents of Igala kingdom you know yourselves, do not take the law into your hands. We are not unaware of their plans to import into Kogi state machineries from Port Harcourt, Nasarawa, Ekiti, Kwara , Taraba states, and Agatus from Benue state.
“I am assuring them if they have ever succeeded in doing that in others states, Kogi state November 16 governorship election will be exceptional and it will be the last state they will ever intrude to cause mayhem during election.
“Whoever leave his state to Kogi with a sinister plan will never return home as a human being. We are resolute to maintain and sustain the existing peace in the state.
“The forthcoming election is about the future of the citizens of the state and I am optimistic that the APC will not only win the election, but the party will win overwhelmingly because for the first time in the history of the state the youth and the women have said no to political god fatherism.
“They have said to god fatherism where governance is been transferred from father to son, from in-law to another in-law, without any consideration for other people that equally have stake in the state”, the governor stated.
He assured that his second term would witness tremendous achievements especially in the area of youth empowerment to engage them meaningfully to have a brighter future.
“Our second tenure will focus on human capital development, education, security and infrastructure development to improve the living standard of the citizens.
“A situation where we have teeming unemployed youth without jobs is not healthy for the state and unacceptable to us, that is why we are resolute to redouble our effort in ensuring that graduates are meaningfully engaged.
“Our effort in agriculture value chain have started yielding success as 1700 youth and women in the state have just benefitted from the first phase of the Women and Youth Empowerment Programme (WYEP) of Agro-Processing , Production Enhancement And Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) supported by the world bank.
“We are ready to take advantage of similar projects to better the lives of our people as we are able to take development to our communities within the minimum resources available to us”, he assured.