Re Crisis Looms In Kogi Assembly As Yahaya Bello Shops for New Speaker

*Re Crisis Looms In Kogi Assembly As Yahaya Bello Shops for New Speaker*

Our attention has been drawn to a publication referred to above where in the hallucinations of a confused mind was copiously displayed.

 Coming from the author, it should not have been dignified with any response but at times it is imperative not only to put things in proper perspective but to point out the distortions that can only come from concocted falsehood.


For the avoidance of doubt, there has not been any request for N10 billion loan from the Executive and no behind the scene approval was made for such.

The only request for loan was #1.9b  requested by the Executive to enable the state fulfill its counterpart funding obligations for SUBEB which was approved by the Assembly after due process.

Any alleged deduction of a fraction from a phantom sum is therefore not only ridiculous but mischievous.

The trip of Rt Hon M. O. Kolawole was to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in USA but the author is so blinded by mischief to know the difference between the US and UK; a country the Speaker has not been to in almost two years.

On the rumored planned defection of Hon Ndako to the ruling party in the state; APC, it is a welcome development as it confirms the attractiveness of the party in the state for which the leader of the party in state, His Excellency Alh Yahaya Bello must be given credit.

The party's doors are opened to receive more from the opposition for more hands to be on deck to move the state to a greater height.

Kogi West is made up of three Federal Constituencies and since creation Lokoja/Koto Federal Consistency  has produced seven Speakers while Yagba Federal Constituency has produced two Speakers.


The emergence of Rt Hon M. O. Kolawole is the first time Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency will produce a Speaker in the State House of Assembly and the author's delusion is further substantiated by his ignorance of the fact that the SSG and the Speaker are neither from the same Local Government Area nor Federal Constituency.

Kogi State House of Assembly under the leadership of Rt Hon Mathew  Kolawole is united and focused to perform it's duties of making laws for good governance. No amount of speculations will therefore  affect the robust and cordial relationship between the Executive and Legislature in the State.

The confusion in the camp of those who do not mean well for Kogi State will always be compounded because the New Direction government must succeed irrespective of the present challenges the situation in the country has foisted on everyone.

Mischief makers are admonished to turn a new life and allow their wishes to be for the good of Kogi State.

For the author, his notoriety as a purveyor of false and malicious news has been reinforced which is a sad reflection of what society has become for persons who have become willing tools in the hands of desperate politicians who have lost out in the politics of the state.

The post of Mr Usman Austin Okai is therefore not only a collection of lies but a desperate and mischievous attempt to create a wrong impression about Rt Hon Mathew Kolawole, the state of affairs in Kogi State House of Assembly and the relationship with the Executive under the able leadership of His Excellency,  Alh Yahaya Bello.

The post as usual with others by  Austin Usman Okai is poorly researched and built on falsehood of a frustrated individual who is obviously pained by the prospect of PDP losing another stronghold; it should consequently be disregarded.