El-Rufai’s Apology in Kogi is Evidence of Bello’s Failure, Says PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday declared that the public apology and the kneeling down by the Chairman of the APC Kogi State Campaign Council, and Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has confirmed that even the APC agreed that Governor Yahaya Bello does not merit a second term.
Spokesman of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said in a statement that the genuflection by El-Rufai was also a direct confirmation that the failed Governor Bello cannot lay claim to any genuine vote at the November 16 governorship election.
This is coming as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on the people of Bayelsa and Kogi States to take serious interest in the choices they make on Saturday as they cast their votes in the governorship elections in both states.
Atiku Abubakar who enjoined the electorate to make their choices wisely by electing capable hands to steer the affairs of those two states.
In a statement by his media office in Abuja, Atiku particularly urged members of the PDP to use the power of their overwhelming strength in those two states in ensuring that its flag remains standing in the Bayelsa State Government House.
He also charged Kogi people to vote for PDP so that the good people of the state can begin to have a feel of better life under a PDP administration.
Meanwhile, PDP has also noted that the Edo State Deputy Governor, Hon. Philip Shaibu, also knelt before the Kogi people to beg for Yahaya Bello which further showed that it is public knowledge that the governor misused the opportunity given to him to lead the state.
“Unfortunately, the apology is coming too late in the day and cannot be accepted by the people of Kogi state, whose lives, Yahaya Bello had turned into a living hell in the last four year.
“Moreover, Yahaya Bello openly confirmed that he is irredeemable as he stood without any sign of remorse while El-Rufai and the Edo State deputy governor begged the unimpressed scanty crowd.
“Governor El-Rufai and the APC ought to have counseled Yahaya Bello at the time he was busy suppressing, insulting, abusing and making life unbearable for the people of Kogi state as if there will not be a day of reckoning.”