You are selfish – Kogi PDP slams Gov. Bello over planned sale of state assets

The Peoples Democratic Party in Kogi State has rejected proposed plans
by Governor Yahaya Bello-led administration to sell some of the state
asset.

The opposition party while admonishing the governor to immediately
perish the thought, considered the plot to be selfish, devilish and
myopic.

A statement released on Monday by the party's state publicity
secretary, Mr Bode Ogunmola, he said "it is shameful and the peak of
rascality that a government which is saddled with its inability to pay
workers salaries let alone executing people oriented projects more
than half way into its tenure, will now scheme to mortgage out
collective future.

"During a budget defence appearance at the State House of Assembly,
Asiwaju Idris Commissioner for Finance in the clueless Governor Yahaya
Bello maladministration hinted at plans of selling off some properties
of the Kogi people as a way of financing the 2018 budget.

"List among victims of the proposed ill policy are Kogi Liaison
Offices in Lagos, and Kaduna, Kogi Hotels, Confluence Beach Hotel,
Confluence Beach Hotel, Confluence Millennium Park, the 12 storey Kogi
House in Abuja and the Confluence Stadium Lokoja."

Ogunmola noted that the party was not unaware of the grand plan of the
state government to sell the legacy projects to its officials as a
decoy of his possessing the state.

He called on the government to beat a retreat and listen to saner
counsel adding that, rather than frittering the state heritage in
loose living, the government should champion their protection.