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2023 Polls: Gov.Bello Charges Politicians to Play by Rules, Warns Against Violence

From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja

The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello on Thursday in Lokoja called on politicians to play by the rules as the nation approaches the general elections.

The governor gave the advice on Thursday at a Symposium organised by the Kogi State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), with the theme: “A peep into Gov. Yahaya Bello‘s Seven Years in office and implications for future Administration”.

He appealed to Nigerians not to fall into the plan of some politicians bent on creating violence and not wanting election to hold.

Bello, who expressed optimism that the 2023 election will hold in peace, urged Nigerians to remain calm, pointing out that the current situation facing the country is temporal.

He enjoined Nigerians to go into the election and remain resolute, assuring that the APC Presidential flag bearer, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, will win the election overwhelmingly.

The Governor promised to sustain relationship with the council, urged media professionals to remain unbiased in their reportage and in reporting the election.

Earlier, the chairman of the Kogi state council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Adeiza Momohjimoh appealed to the federal government to call the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to order, and to stay within the precinct of the law in the discharge of its statutory responsibility.

Comrade Momohjimoh made the appeal on Thursday in Lokoja at a symposium organised by the union to showcase the seven years administration of the state governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello.

According to him, the fixation of the agency on Kogi state government and some individuals in the state is already making mockery of the agency’s mandate of fighting corruption in Nigeria.

Comrade Adeiza Momohjimoh , said people are beginning to believe that the motive of the agency’s operation in Kogi state is that of witch hunt and political vendetta, appealing to the federal government to call the agency to order before it derailed from its core mandate of fighting corruption.

“This distraction is not only unnecessary, but also aimed at putting the development in the state to anticlockwise movement” he stated.

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