PDP to Bello: You are on excursion in Kogi Govt House

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Wednesday’s swearing-in of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State as ‘a comical event’.
To the opposition party in the North-Central state, Bello will soon leave the Governor’s Office because “he is on excursion to the Kogi Government House.
A statement on Thursday by the party’s National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, said Bello did not participate in the overall election to emerge governor.
The statement reads: “Yahaya Bello, who cannot claim the overall winning votes in the election is, therefore, a shadow-chasing passerby on an excursion in Kogi State Government House, as the so-called swearing-in ceremony, having no bearing from the votes at election, is at best an APC function.
“The people of Kogi are aware that the man being paraded by the APC is not the person they exercised confidence in at the election as he scored a paltry 6,885 votes in the so-called supplementary election as against the 204,877 votes polled by the PDP candidate, Alhaji Idris Wada, in the overall election.
“However, as a law abiding party, we, hereby, urge our members and the people of Kogi State to remain calm and not despair over this slap on democracy as the courts would soon deliver justice with regard to the authentic governor with the mandate of the majority at the election”.