National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has been told that Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, due to his failure, has become unmarketable.
To members of APC Youth Vanguard in the North-Central state, the party will lose the November 16 election if Bello is fielded as its governorship candidate.
According to John Audu, the Kogi State Coordinator of the group, APC in Kogi State and Bello have become unmarketable since 2015 due to the failure of the governor to provide dividend of democracy to the people.
“Yahaya Bello messed up a golden opportunity that was made available by the deceased Alhaji Abubakar Audu and other progressives in the state. He is deliberately shortchanging civil servants and pensioners by his refusal to pay salaries and pension for 38 months”, wondering the manner of evil that occupies his heart.
He accused Bello of attempting to reap where he did not sow by trying to take credits for the victory of APC in the state in the general election, and insisted that “the victory of APC in the last election in the state was due to the performance and integrity of President Muhammadu Buhari and the commitment of progressives in Kogi State”.
“Governor Yahaya Bello is an inhuman leader who repeatedly failed to pay salaries and pension since his coming to power despite the hundreds of billions of naira he received from allocation, the federal government bailout funds, Paris Club refund and other monetary sources. Bello deceived us to believing that he was doing verification exercise since he took power but almost four years and that seem to he unending.
“In addition to these, the governor destroyed the party by using state apparatus against anyone that tells him to do what is right and even party leaders that signified interest in his office. The governor has turned Kogi State into a laughing stock in the country and has turned Kogi workers and pensioners into beggars. We, the youths of the party, are in tune with the people of the state and we pass a vote of no confidence on him”.
Audu pledged the support of APC youths and people of Kogi State for the Buhari administration and the leadership of the party under Oshiomole, but warned that “the entire state are prepared to drop partisanship aside and vote out Governor Bello should the party be deceived into giving the ticket to him”.


















