N30bn bailout will be diverted – Victor Adoji, Kogi gov aspirant

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Some Kogi State governorship aspirants under the Peoples Democratic Party have raised the alarm that the N30bn bailout that was released to Governor Yahaya Bello by the Federal Government could be diverted.
Dr Adoji  alleged that the money would not be used for the payment of workers’ salaries but could be diverted for the governor’s re-election bid.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday after collecting his expression of interest and nomination forms at the PDP secretariat, Wadata in Abuja, Adoji  called on the governor Bello to use the money for the payment of salaries, adding that workers and people in the state had been languishing in poverty.
Adoji said they would invest in human capital and infrastructural development as well as programmes that would create jobs and alleviate poverty in the state.
They lamented high insecurity, adding that it was imperative to improve on security of lives and property in the state.
Adoji said, “I remember a few months before Capt Idris Wada left office, he had applied for this same bailout of about N50bn. But the government of the day refused to release the money because they had envisioned that the money would be used for political purpose. But now, few months to the election, you are allowing the sitting governor to have N30bn. Of course, I do not see that money being used for the purpose for which it is being allotted in the first place. It is ill-timed, improper and immoral.”
 

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