The governor elect of the November 2019 governorship election of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has requested that all his appointees should submit a report of the extent of their “stewardship” toward him during the election.
This was disclosed in a memo signed by the secretary to the state government, Folashade Ayoade and reported by TheCable which read;
“Following the decision reached at the state executive council meeting held on Wednesday 27 November. His Excellency, Yahaya Bello, Executive Governor of Kogi state has directed all heads of ministries, departments and agencies to submit in detail their stewardship to the New Direction administration in respect of their ministries,”
“Report should include: local government; office (s) held; duration; ward; polling unit; result of election in PU and ward.”
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Recall that the Herald reported that Yahaya Bello, Kogi state Governor-Elect, after his election victory denied the allegations that he was owing salaries, saying it was a lie.
The governor-elect, who said this while featuring on Channels Television, also alleged that thugs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stabbed a resident after he was declared the winner of Saturday’s election.
He said: “All these reports of me owing salaries are lies. Past governors of Kogi State were owning salaries starting from Audu to my immediate predecessor. Kogi state is not owning any dime at the state level, what is left is the ten percent from the previous government.
“As for El-Rufai kneeling, he was begging that Kogi people should forgive Bello for ensuring security and ensuring the state was peaceful and not because he could not pay salaries.”
On the claim of people being killed during the election, Bello said: “After I was declared winner, a PDP thug stabbed somebody and ran into the house of their women leader but he was caught and dealt with.
“My deputy governor-elect’s wife was shot at but thank God she didn’t die, the police are looking into it and would bring the culprits to book.”