KOGI AT 29: Gov. Bello felicitate with Kogi people, says Kogi to become a macrocosm of the Nigerian State »

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has felicitated with the people of Kogi State on the occasion of its 29th anniversary, stating that the state would soon become a macrocosm of the Nigerian State.

He mentioned that such would be attained by showing in tangible terms how diversity could be a factor for success in governance and a booster for development

The Governor made this known in a text on Thursday commemorating the 29th anniversary of the Creation of the Confluence State.

Governor Bello said that at birth, the founding fathers had high hopes that Kogi would become the navel of the nation and the intersection of one Nigeria.

He noted that 29 years later, while Kogi’s journey to attain this height has been confronted with many obstacles, which mostly were human fallibility, it could not be denied that her strategic potentials as a key piece of the nation’s march towards development remains undiminished.

The Governor who saluted previous administrations for their strive noted that In 2016 the New Direction Administration came on board with a message of awakening and a mission to accelerate the state’s journey to achieve the state’s vital objectives.

He noted that his administration is celebrating the anniversary by acknowledging its own modest achievements and renewing its promise to do more.

He stressed that areas of Education, Health, Infrastructure and Utilities, Job Creation and Youth Engagement as well as Public Service and Pension Reforms remain our core thematic areas while Security, Agriculture, Tourism and Human Capital Development are special priority embedded throughout the core themes above.

The Governor pointed out that his government led a team of young citizens across ethnic and religious lines who dared to dream that change is possible with synergy rather than division while they had a duty of social re-engineering to further blur parochial lines which have done nothing but divide.

The Governor established that the state have since made a lot of progress in replacing the lip-service to unity once prevalent among our people with greater cooperation and integration represented through the coinage EBIGO.

He stated that despite the havoc wreaked by the Coronavirus pandemic, the Kogi State Government has risen up to this challenge and would not relent in crafting new ways to respond effectively to this new normal, as socially, economically and politically disconcerting as it was.

Governor Bello however assured the people of Kogi State of Government’s iron-cast resolve to secure, develop, grow and integrate Kogi State and her people into the vanguard of unity, peace and progress in Nigeria.