ABUJA- DEPUTY Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Kogi State and former Campaign Coordinator to President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos State, James Faleke has described as the height of absurdity the donation of 6 Toyota Venza Cars and cash gifts of 2 Million Naira each by the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello to masquerades in his hometown of Okene during the last Ekwechi(Masquerade) festival in December 2017.

Faleke Faleke in a statement he issued on Tuesday,said it was indeed absurd that the same Governor who has not been able to pay workers salaries for several months and promised to clear all outstanding salaries and pensions last December without fulfilling it could go ahead to spend money buying car gifts for masquerades.
“I honestly don’t know what is happening in our State. We thought the governor( Alhaji Yahaya Bello) would heed popular call to settle all outstanding salaries and pensions in the State last December as he promised after receiving the Paris refunds of close to 12 Billion Naira only for him to pay 40 percent of 2 months.
So where did the rest of the money go? Next we heard was the news of the 6 Venza cars he bought and presented to masquerades in Okene through their Minders along with 2 Million Naira cash to each of the masquerades! How else can one be so insensitive to the welfare, yearnings and aspirations of his people”.

According to Faleke, the State Government that had denied all along it had no outstandings just released a fresh list of “cleared staff”.
“What this means is that those staff whose names were just released had been without pay for the past two years when the screening exercise began. So who is fooling who,” Faleke wondered.. The lawmaker bemoaned the situation where instead of providing succour for the citizenry across the State, what obtains is intimidation and harassment of hapless and harmless citizens all over the place.

,” A case in point is the recent case in Iyamoye community where a group of youth were distributing End of Year gifts to APC Members and were attacked by Soldiers providing security for Governor Bello’s appointed Local Government Administrator for Ijumu Local Government, Taofeek Isah. ” As an Administrator, the State Government provided him soldiers with which he harrasses perceived political opponents across the State. Of course, the newstands were agog

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This guy from Ikeja again

Kogi deserve the governor they have as they are wicked people to each other

My kogi people yaf suffered oo. I keep wondering when Nigerians would start seeing and reaping benefits of democracy. This governor should have been booted out a long time ago.

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If e like make e give dem trailer, e no consign me. make 2018 sha no be waste for me.

Tinubu dog attacking an ebira man for contribuing to his culture and heritage

Misplaced priority. So masquerades now ride cars. We've seen them at betnaija playing over 2.5 though.

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Tinubu dog attacking an ebira man for contribuing to his culture and heritage

I tire ooo..Logo is a broke state...the governor paid 60% of all outstanding salaries..and paid pensioners full entitlement. falekes is till pined that he ain't the governor. The governor has vision and he is really trying his best,just that majority of his cabinet are corrupt an hungry...meanwhile if Falekes was the governor he would do worse,he for dey take Kogi money to maintain Bourdillon Landlord.....

Bello should enjoy while it lasts.

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in short, the guy is PAINED!!!!

If the house can't start to impeach the governors let us impeach them what is all this noise about don't we have mechanism that should look into this (check and balances).