The Kogi
State governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday night said those who attacked him at a
mosque in Lokoja in the afternoon were sponsored political miscreants who saw
his ongoing reforms in the state as inimical to their selfish interests.
Mr. Bello
said some of the attackers were promptly apprehended by security agents and
market women, adding that the “politically motivated attack” would be
thoroughly investigated.
Friday’s
attack against Mr. Bello came two weeks after he suffered a similar one while
visiting Ankpa, the headquarters of Ankpa Local Government Area of the state.
But in a
statement signed by his press secretary, Kingsley Fanwo, Mr. Bello said the
attacks were carried out by ‘imported’ thugs contracted by his political
adversaries hell-bent on maintaining the status quo.
“We are
not unaware of scheming by change resistors to sponsor attacks against
government officials,” Mr. Fanwo said. “Sponsoring attacks against the Governor
will not stop our march to restore sanity to the polity.”
Mr. Fanwo
also attributed the attack to a raging ‘syndrome’ occasioned by his sweeping
reforms in the state’s civil service, promising that the names of those
suffering from it would soon be published.
“The
administration of Governor Yahaya Bello will soon publish the names of corrupt
citizens of the state who are behind the Ghost Workers syndrome.”
Mr. Bello,
who assumed office in January, had embarked on a broad re-verification exercise
for the state’s civil servants, citing widespread abuse in workers payroll, a
situation he said saw the state losing billions to fraud in a state bleeding
from diminishing revenues.
Mr.
Bello’s campaign had pitted him against the labour unions who accused his
government of being insensitive to their plight.
Mr. Bello
thanked the citizens of his state who swung to action and repelled Friday’s
attack against him and his entourage, adding that they should remain resolute
in their support towards the restoration of the “lost glory of the state.”
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