Ethnicity, reason they attacked my administration  – Yahaya Bello

As Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State reviews his 100 days in office, as he came on board January 27, he revealed that ethnicity was the reason his opponents were attacking his administration.

Bello, while addressing the people at the Riverton Hotel Kokoja, weekend, said they decided to make some of those things that divided the Kogi people a taboo.

Bello stated that he promised that he would recover every kobo and utilised it in the state, adding that wherever you come from we should see ourselves as Kogites, saying, “This ethnicity has deprived us of oneness. This has been used to divide us within those periods. And the privileged few has capitalised on it and milked us dry, we are blindfolded. We decided to make some of those things that divide us a taboo.

“And we have resolved that we are going to take our state 100 percent from the hands of those that held us down all these years.  I swear to Almighty God that l will discharge my duty and look up to him and not fear human being.”

It could be recalled that in Kogi State, lgala is the majority clan and dictates the pace, and Yahaya Bello comes from Ebira, the minority clan. This some lgalas see as a spate on their ego and kick against his choice.