The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has lambasted Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, describing their alleged attempt to frustrate President Muhammadu Buhari’s government as “nonsense”.
Bello made this known while addressing his supporters in Okene GRA, Kogi on Monday
According to The Cable, Bello addressed his supporters in his native Ebira language, saying, ” the nonsense that Saraki and Dogara are doing” will end when Buhari secures a second term.
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Recall that Senate President Saraki on July 31 defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the All Progressives Congress (APC) while Dogara is said to be planning to defect to the PDP later in the future.
But Bello reportedly urged his supporters to vote for the APC to end Saraki and Dogara’s machinations.
“Tijani Damisa, our brother in house of representatives, is among the people looking out for President Muhammadu Buhari… That is why the nonsense that Saraki and Dogara are doing is not successful. I urge you all to vote for him and his colleagues.
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“God willing, Buhari will return in 2019. All the people bearing APC ticket in Kogi, not just Ebira, will win by God’s grace.
“He is the one who will give us and Buhari power. Not the one that Saraki and Dogara are making it difficult for him in his first term. In the second term, he will do it smoothly… When it is my own time, we will win it very well. We won’t just win it, we will superintend over the next one.
“But in this era, please, everyone should be patient. Please, don’t ridicule me before the president, because, I know my status there,” Bello was quoted as saying.
Bello, who boasted about his father-to-son relationship with President Buhari, said, “if he (President Buhari) does not call me, he cannot call another person”.
“When it is time for a personal and sensitive matter to be discussed between father and son, I am the first person he (Buhari) reaches out to,” he added.
He urged his supporters to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and tackle the PDP at any given opportunity.
Bello said, “Please, tell one another that all of Kogi, all of Ebira, are for APC. Anyone that is in the camp of the other, just use it to eat. When it is election time, everyone is APC.
“If you do not do so and do something else, you are one dividing Ebira. You are the one saying Ebira should not move forward, you are the one saying kidnapping of people in the past, in the time of PDP, should continue. You are the one calling for the return of that time.
“You are the one saying we should put an end to all the good work we are doing. You are the one saying you are not happy with the water projects we are doing. You are the one saying the hospitals we are building, should be on hold.
“Don’t deviate from the plan because if you do, you are saying our suffering is not enough. I am not saying if you see someone from PDP, you should stone him or mock them in songs.”