The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State has accused the state governor, Yahaya Bello, of planning to spend N30bn bailout recently released on campaign instead of workers’ salaries.
The allegation was made by some governorship candidates under aspirants under the PDP.
Speaking to journalists separately on Wednesday after collecting their expression of interest and nomination forms at the PDP secretariat, Wadata in Abuja, the group called on the governor to use the money for the payment of salaries, adding that workers and people in the state had been languishing in poverty.
The aspirants included Bayo Averehi, Mohammed Shaibu, Dr Victor Adoji, Bayo Agberedi and Air Vice Marshal Salia Atawodi (retd.).
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Adoji said, “I remember a few months before Capt Idris Wada left office, he had applied for this same bailout of about N50bn. But the government of the day refused to release the money because they had envisioned that the money would be used for political purpose. But now, few months to the election, you are allowing the sitting governor to have N30bn. Of course, I do not see that money being used for the purpose for which it is being allotted in the first place. It is ill-timed, improper and immoral.”
Agberedi said, “A bailout given to the state before was not used for the purpose that it was meant for. So if you think that this one is to be used for the purpose, then you have to strip him of his immunity to make him to do that. I do not see this money being used to pay the salaries of the dying workers.”