A call has gone to the entire citizens of Kogi state that they are left with the choice to rejecting or collecting the federal government palliatives , but vote for candidate of their choice in the forthcoming November 11 governorship election, as the federal government palliatives has been converted to electioneering campaigns instrument by the state government.
The group known as volunteer groups maintained in a message to the people of the state on Tuesday, that the ongoing distribution of I kg of rice and low quality clothes was the proceeds from the government at the national level, and not the state government.
They urged the people of the state that it is their right to collect the items and not a privilege, at the same time they at liberty to reject the said items, stating that the APC in the state are using the items to misinform and misdirect the electorates to attract their votes in the forthcoming election.
The volunteers group in the statement signed by Comrade Usman Amodu, advised the people to avoid been swindled having been pauperised by the present administration under Yahaya Bello.
He asserted that some of these items were traced to Dekina town and Ankpa, while commending the people of Ankpa for rejecting the greek gift.
He commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the succour, but maintained that the timing was wrong with bad leadership in Kogi, whose people’s welfare does not matter to them.
“The federal government instructed that the social register compiled by state governments should be used to distribute the palliatives, stating that Kogi state don’t have a nationally acceptable social register.” He stated