The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November governorship election in Kogi State, Dino Melaye, has alleged that the current governor of the State, Yahaya Bello, is seeking a third term through a proxy.
Bello, who is in the final days of his second term as Kogi governor is backing his party’s candidate, Ahmed Ododo, to succeed him, but Melaye believes the governor is tacitly trying to remain in power through Ododo.
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“Don’t be deceived that Yahaya Bello is not on the ballot. Ododo is physically on the ballot but Yahaya Bello is the one seeking a third term through a proxy.
“I will not want this debate to be about Yahaya Bello, rather I would like to market my political party and market what we have for Kogi State,” Melaye said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday.
The former lawmaker representing Kogi West in the Senate said he was confident of unseating the ruling APC because it had happened before in 2003 when the PDP unseated Abubakar Audu.
He added that even though Yahaya Bello was the governor in 2019, he still won his senatorial election under the PDP.
Melaye said the Kogi West and Central Leaders Forum accessed the three contestants from the zone after which he was endorsed as the choice of the zones.
While acknowledging that all the candidates from the Kogi West and Central are qualified to govern the state, Melaye insisted that he is the most qualified, saying that he is the most educated, most exposed, and most experienced of all the candidates.
