Kogi State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party Candidate, Captain Idris Wada has said that he is confident he will come out victorious on Saturday because considering the available resources, he has performed well as governor.
During an interview with Vanguard, he said “I am confident based on my performance because the reality on ground is different from the high level of propaganda out there. However, victory is in the hands of God. As a person, I am confident that I have done my best for the job, and considering the available resources, I am ready to do more.”
While outlining his achievements as Governor, he said “We have done a lot and you have to compare what we have done to the resources available. Our average income per month over the last two years is about N3.5 billion; the salary of the state is about N2.6 billion. The money we need to pay pension, support our tertiary institutions, subventions to ministry is about N500 million to N600 million a month. Pensions alone is about N467 million because it is from 1991 till date, so what is left?
“Every month, I have maybe N200 million, sometimes N400 million or N500 million to execute projects. I also inherited about 30 ongoing projects, which I expressed committed to complete them for the benefits of the people.
“This is because once, your predecessor has put money in a project, if you abandon it, it is the people who will lose. So, we made a policy that we will complete ongoing projects and we have completed several.
“For instance, we have completed the modern 25,000-seater stadium. There is the phase 2 of the state secretariat, a 3-storey building which has provided modern accommodation for our civil servants. Along the main road through the town, you could see concrete drainages being done, Lokoja being a riverside town, we noticed that that road every two or three years you have to rehabilitate the road with N2 billion or N3 billion, but I decided that it must stop.”