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‘Attention seeker’ Melaye may have burnt his constituency project himself— Gov Bello

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‘Attention seeker’ Melaye may have burnt his constituency project himself— Gov Bello

This follows Wednesday’s incident where four classrooms Melaye built for Government Girls Secondary School, Sarki Noma, Lokoja, were set ablaze.

Melaye had attributed the destruction of the property to thugs linked to Bello, his longstanding political foe.

Speaking on the incident in an interview with Osasu Igbinedion on The Osasu Show, Bello however said Melaye is an “attention seeker” capable of attacking himself to elicit public sympathy.

Bello said neither he nor his supporters had anything to do with the incident.

“The project that was embarked on by him that was burnt down is highly condemnable. I condemn it in its entirety,” Bello said.

“Remember the person in question is an attention seeker, remember he has orchestrated self-attacks severally in the state and I won’t be surprised in order to draw public sympathy if he organised that for himself.

“This is a project he started; nobody stopped you from starting it. You continued it and you completed it, nobody stopped you. You are about commissioning it, why would anybody go and burn it down? Why would any right thinking person go there and burn it down?

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“That is not our character, that is not my own style of politicking. If anything, any development is for the people. The money did not come from his pocket, it is public fund meant for the people. So, if he tries to do that, and turn around to seek for public sympathy and orchestrated that on himself again, it is most unfortunate. That is the only way I can attribute it.

“In Kogi State remember, that we inherited a volatile state where a lot of insecurity, violence used to be an order of the day but upon assumption of office, Kogi State is the safest today.”

Asked what he was doing to fix the relationship between him and Melaye, Bello said, “First of all, I am a governor and I represent the entire state- Kogi central, east and west. Dino Melaye is a senator, he never contested for governor, so, he can’t be a rival to be. No basis for rivalry at all,” he said.

“I am doing my best for the people of Kogi State. The very first time a sitting governor will not play tribalism or sentiment and I am carrying everybody along. He is representing a small portion of the state and we are not of the same political orientation.

“So, I don’t have issues with him, he has issues with his people and his constituency. You would not hear me making any comment about him except now that you are asking because he is very very inconsequential as far as the politics of Kogi State is concerned.

“The issue of recall, It was between him and his constituency, I had no hand in it.”

 

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