‘Attention seeker’ Melaye may have burnt his constituency project himself— Gov Bello

“That is not our character, that is not my own style of politicking. If anything, any development is for the people. The money did not come from his pocket, it is public fund meant for the people. So, if he tries to do that, and turn around to seek for public sympathy and orchestrated that on himself again, it is most unfortunate. That is the only way I can attribute it.

“In Kogi State remember, that we inherited a volatile state where a lot of insecurity, violence used to be an order of the day but upon assumption of office, Kogi State is the safest today.”

Asked what he was doing to fix the relationship between him and Melaye, Bello said, “First of all, I am a governor and I represent the entire state- Kogi central, east and west. Dino Melaye is a senator, he never contested for governor, so, he can’t be a rival to be. No basis for rivalry at all,” he said.

“I am doing my best for the people of Kogi State. The very first time a sitting governor will not play tribalism or sentiment and I am carrying everybody along. He is representing a small portion of the state and we are not of the same political orientation.

“So, I don’t have issues with him, he has issues with his people and his constituency. You would not hear me making any comment about him except now that you are asking because he is very very inconsequential as far as the politics of Kogi State is concerned.

“The issue of recall, It was between him and his constituency, I had no hand in it.”