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I Will Rescue, Restore, Rebuild Kogi – Yahaya Bello

Yahaya Bello aka Fairplus, APC Governorship Aspirant, Kogi State interviewed  by AIT.........Grab your popcorn and Enjoy your reading......

The popular Kogi governorship aspirant, Yahaya Bello “Fairplus” has this time in an exclusive with Uju Eye of the A.I.T., relayed a lot about his plans to rebuild Kogi state.

You are one of the Governorship aspirants, what do you have to offer the people of Kogi state?

YB
Kogi state was created 24 years ago, the same years it took Dubai to be where it is today from a desert to a mega of its kind. And if you look at Kogi critically, it was created alongside other states and go into those states today, look at Bayelsa, Akwa-Ibom, and the rest. Kogi state is far behind. Kogi state is ranking almost 35, that’s including F.C.T. In terms of revenue profile, we are higher than Kwara state,our parent state. Remember Kogi was carved out of Kwara and Benue. Now, go to Kwara state today and come to Kogi state, even government house, there’s nothing absolutely.
Front of government house, there are port-holes, look at the state capital; they have not put a show for it, before you talk of rural areas.
This is a state that is blessed with enormous natural resources and quality human beings that could drive it to the highest level. Kogi state should have been ranking among the first five in terms of performance, infrastructural and human development. But it is a pity that we are where we are today. It is a state where crime is being hatched. It appears to be a state of crime because of bad leadership. I am aspiring to be the governor of the state to rescue, to
restore and to rebuild.

In what way?

YB
Infrastructural and human capital development, by the special grace of God if elected as the governor of Kogi state.
There are specific things. In terms of education, I’ll give you a little background about myself. I came from a poor background. 40 years ago I was born, and 40 years ago my father died. Now, I was left in the hands of my mother alone. But she struggled to give me sound education. Then in Kwara state, we had good educational system. I was able to have good primary education, secondary, and then, the university. But today, go to the schools, even the primary school I finished from in my village, if you go there today, children are sitting on the floor or stone. They are been taught under the tree, and teachers are being owed salaries, they have not been paid. If what is happening today happened during my own time when I was in the primary school, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to bewhere I am today. So, I am going back to my community and giving back what has beeninstituted in me. That is one. Two, in terms of health sector, go to rural areas today;women are dying because of mere one thousand naira or five hundred naira. They cannot afford drugs. If it happened during my own time, probably I wouldn’t have come to life.Children, new babies are dying. That, we are going to declare emergency on.
Look at the infrastructure like I said, everything is in shamble. Look at our roads, no water, and no electricity.
These we are going to take into consideration immediately.
Look at our tourism, which is an area that should fetch a huge sum of fund and revenue for the state. But today, it isleft untapped. The confluence is there, Mount Patti is there, we have Lord Lugard House that is supposed to be a
monument where tourists should come to visit. We should be able to have what we have in Ogbudu ranch today. Mineral resources, we have Ajaokuta. A good government would have liaised with the federal government and bring foreign investors, partner with them to ensure that large mineral resources in fact should be able to sustain thewhole nation and not just the state alone. Through this, alot of job creation would come to play.
Now, our youths are lying fallow, just there doing nothing other than worshipping politicians. Remember, an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. I belong to this particular class of human being as a youth. But I see them, I pity them. We’ll make sure we encourage them. We’ll partner with foreign and local investors, we’ll create an enabling environment where they will come and invest and employ a huge number of them. We’ll encourage them to go into serious trainings, liaise with financial institutions to give them softloans where they’ll be able to do one thing or the other whether they are skilled or unskilled. Those that are skilled,we’ll train them, those that are unskilled we’ll be trained in vocational centres to be useful to themselves, thereby picking them off the streets. In our civil service, there is redundancy. We should be able to channel our civil service to more productive side.

How would you rate your chances both at the primaries and general election?

YB
At the primaries, my chances are very high. I am saying this against the backdrop of our population. Population inthe sense that, the majority of our party men are youths and they are Kogites, and they have seen the way the state hasbeen run over the years. We are desirers of change fromthe old order to a new one. We want a younger blood who is going to drive the system effectively, and I represent that particular class of human being. I will represent over 70%.If they are not the desirers of the way things are today, theonly option for them is to elect me at the primaries. And at the party level, I have contributed immensely for them to see that I am loyal to the party, and as such, they should give me that support. On a plain and level-playing field, I am going to emerge victorious. And at the general election level, when you look at the last elections, APC produced three senators out of the three senatorial districts. Out of nine representative members, wehave six; out of 25 assembly members, we have 11.However, there are still cases in court, and we believe we are going to win more seats and we will be the majority.
Have you been talking to the different stakeholders in the
state, and what are their responses?
YB
Yes, I have reached out to them far and wide and their responses have been quite wonderful because they are equally tired of the way the system has been run. They want new ideas and I am an embodiment of that new idea,and they are ready to give me that support.
Your Governor is of the PDP, which presupposes the PDP is not weak in your state. And you have equally qualified people that are vying for the same position. How do you intend to tackle them for you to emerge?
YB
At the primary I told you I am the most qualified to emerge,and I have the capacity, and I will win the primary. At the general election, there are so many factors that are going to play in our favour. Other than our loud performance at the polls, when you look at the PDP government today in the state, it’s the worst of it all. Owing salaries, very insensitive to the plight of Kogites, I don’t know how to describe it. So, we can’t just wait to sweep PDP out of the state.

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