I have carefully read the misdirection the crooked text advanced by one Abdul Mohammed Lawal, a so called political actor in Kogi State has put out in the public.
Ordinarily, the jaundiced piece should not be worth a shot of response but, the foundational lies that characterized it with the view to deceiving the public to buy the fugitive Yahaya Bello some public sympathy.
The writer obviously, penned what measure of fallacies his kind of leaders may have fed him with.
It is incumbent on me as an insider in the brief political union between Yahaya Bello and Alhaji Murtala Yakubu to set the records straight.
1. Yahaya Bello was never and still not a force in Kogi State politics. It is ego worship that has made some of you, his charlatans think highly of him.
2. Yahaya Bello was never at any time instrumental to the rise of His Excellency, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu in the APC; rather, it was the group that Alhaji Murtala Yakubu belonged to that made Yahaya Bello Governor in 2016 via a project spare headed by His Excellencies: Tambuwal, Elrufai, Sen. Yari under the supervision of His Excellency, Chief Rotimi Ameachi. I will implore you, to put this straight in Yahaya Bello’s face for him to deny if at all, you can even go close to his convenience let alone meet him.
3. There was never a time His Excellency, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu was suspended from the APC. It was Yahaya Bello who once largely benefitted from the connection and toils of Alhaji Murtala Yakubu that orchestrated the forgery of signatures of his Ward executive members. And even that, was denounced same time by his Ward executive members via a widely publicized press conference. They (Muri Ajaka’s Ward executive members) equally approached the Kogi State High Court where they jointly swore to an affidavit disclaiming the purported suspension.
4. The position of Deputy Publicity Secretary of APC was originally zoned to Kwara State but it took only the connection, plea and pressing of His Excellency, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu to drag the position home to Kogi State for himself. Again, tell your fugitive Yahaya Bello that I said, he lied to all of you.
5. In fact, Kogi State lost the position of Deputy National Secretary of APC to Plateau State because of Yahaya Bello’s recalcitrant character as Governor, a situation that propelled Alhaji Murtala Yakubu to fight to get the DPS for himself.
6. It was Yahaya Bello who needed His Excellency, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu to be able to navigate through the political storm of 2023 where he, Yahaya Bello almost lost all 5 LGAs of his Senatorial District to the PDP. It took the votes from Kogi East and a few from Kogi West to give His Excellency, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu victory in Kogi State otherwise, APC almost fell flat in the entire Kogi State. Again, the records speak for itself.
7. Let me remind you, that, Yahaya Bello was a complete nobody when he became Governor in 2016. The only thing he had to his credit prior to becoming governor was criminal mindset. And that is today evident in the degree of looting he supervised, directed and engineered in the last 9 years in Kogi State. If you are in a little doubt, ask him to mention with proof, the property he owned in Abuja prior to becoming governor apart from the one in zone 4.
So, you see, Abdul or whatever you are called, if you still have some blood flowing through your veins, you will take your time to go over this response 4 times daily for the next 3 days just so you will know that, you were lied to.
Besides, I acknowledge the fact that, you clearly identified one of the major reasons for legitimate discontent in politics where you rightly stated,
“The political environment is particularly advantageous to those who understand the pulse of the populace and can harness their discontent for political gain.”
I wish to thank you, on behalf of His Excellency, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu for acknowledging the smart, intelligent and compassionate politician he is to heed to the general call of Kogites to come address their collective discontent over the maladministration and draconian style of leadership of Yahaya Bello. A call he acceded to, for which the mandate to bring succour to them was freely given to him.
But like the thief that Yahaya Bello is, he stole the soon to be restored mandate momentarily.
May Kogi State be liberated from draconian leadership.
Dr Emakoji Amana
