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The Kogi State Governorship candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Dino Melaye, has said the party remains the party to
beat in the upcoming election because of the level of devastation being left
behind by the outgoing All Progressives Congress(APC) administration.
He said this after a meeting of Kogi PDP stakeholders from
the three Senatorial zones of the state, with the members of the National
Working Committee at the party‘s national secretariat, in Abuja yesterday.
Melaye said: “PDP is going to win the election in Kogi State
because we have never had it so bad in the history of Kogi State. Our people
were impoverished, salaries have not been paid, pensions have not been paid,
gratuity has not been paid, the health sector is non-existent, in fact, all the
General Hospitals in the state are mere consulting clinics.
“Education has gone moribund, this is what the PDP is coming
to ameliorate and palate.”
“I want to assure you that by the grace of God. With the
resolutions of this meeting, with the strategy adopted in this meeting, PDP is
good to go in Kogi State.
“My charge to Kogi State is that they should not be
Intimidated by the APC, by the threat, violence, the humiliation by the APC
should not deter them from exercising their Democratic rights. I want to assure
you that we will protect our people.”
Earlier in his remarks, the party’s acting National
Chairman, Umar Damagun, expressed confidence that the party will emerge
victorious.
According to him, the party’s leadership decided to convene
the meeting in order to ensure that no stone was left unturned to ensure every
party member and supporter in the state was onboard before the election.
Damagum said: “We have already seen prospects in the coming
election in Kogi election, so this meeting is to know your challenges are and
to know how to work on the reconciliation before the election.
“This reconciliation will take three stages from the ward,
local government and state. I am glad most of the senior stakeholders are here
and they are supposed to anchor that reconciliation. Because we from outside
the state we can only encourage you to work on the reconciliation.
“I am delightful to tell you that the Osun State Governor
who is the Chairman of the Kogi Campaign Committee has promised that he will go
to each zone to seat down with you on a zonal basis. He will campaign in all
these places and he is very much alive to this responsibility in Kogi.
