[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Debunks ₦4.75 billion Compensation Claim by Northern Traders, Cattle Dealers. Adamant Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday insisted that COVID-19 was the least of the problems confronting the state and so he would neither take the COVID-19 vaccine that is being distributed, neither would he make his people guinea pigs by making…
Kogi Indigenes in Edo Pledge 34,000 Block Votes for APC, Ize-Iyamu
Indigenes of Kogi State resident in Edo State have promised to vote en masse for the All Progressives Congress (APC), and its candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu. Bako Eberedelu Dogwo, President-General, Kogi State Indigenes in Diaspora world-wide, gave this assurance weekend during a press conference in Benin City, Edo State capital. He said the move was in…
CSO’S Damning Reports on Governorship Poll: Kogi Governor Impugns Integrity of Observers
A civil society group, Centre for Transparency Advocacy tackles Yahaya Bello, Kogi State governor, and challenges him to name election observers who approached him for logistics support for election monitoring. For discrediting the process of the election that gave him a second term in office and calling for its entire cancellation, incumbent governor of Kogi…
Kogi 2019: Yahaya Bello, NHRC Boss Disagree on Credibility of Poll
*Ojukwu says there was no smooth election in Kogi, alleges intimidation of voters and candidates *Narrates how military held some local governments hostage in Bayelsa Amidst reservations and grave concerns by well-meaning Nigerians over the credibility of the just-concluded governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States, the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Tuesday disagreed with…
INEC Halts Moves To Recall Dino Melaye
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has halted the recall process for Dino Melaye, the Senator representing Kogi West Constituency at the National Assembly. The plan to effect Melaye’s recall from the Senate is steeped in the outspoken senator’s long-drawn-out enmity with Yahaya Bello, Governor of Kogi State. The recall has been the subject of…
APC Splits Over Kogi Election
The leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC may have met the deadline given it by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to submit a replacement for Audu Abubakar, the late candidate of the party at the governorship election held in the state on November 21, the crisis occasioned by the death of the politician barely…